You need Apache Ivy 2.1 or later from http://ant.apache.org/ It could not be loaded from ${ivy_repo_url} You must set thrift.home to the absolute path of your local Thrift installation. Please consult the HowToRelease page on the Hive Wiki for a description of the remaining steps required to publish Maven artifacts to the ASF repository: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/HowToRelease Signing @{input.file} Sig File: @{output.file}