The following updates were made to Hive for 1.3.7:
BUG-16580, HIVE-6716:RecordReader's nextKeyValue() is causing NPE when the value in the struct column is null in ORC table.
RMP-1387, HIVE-5002: Changes to Record Reader Implementation for ORC Made changes to the method for exposing Index information outside of the class.
RMP-1367, HIVE-5562: Stripe level stats for ORC Files. You can look at stripe stats without having to read the whole stripe.
RMP-1340, HIVE-5002: Changes to Fetch Operator implementation:
Added a Java UUID to distinguish between distinct calls
The table properties are also now serialized into the Job Conf for use by the get Splits
