Release Notes for Sqoop 1.4.1-incubating: February, 2012

Sub-task

• [SQOOP-356] - move documentation generation to the maven build
• [SQOOP-372] - License Audit
• [SQOOP-412] - Create our own implementation of org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.getInstances
• [SQOOP-413] - Port files org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.{db,input}.* from CDH3/Hadoop-0.21 to sqoop

Bug

• [SQOOP-384] - Sqoop is incompatible with Hadoop prior to 0.21
• [SQOOP-392] - Build using maven is broklend due to missing class generated by script write-version-info.sh
• [SQOOP-393] - Class SqoopOptions was not properly moved
• [SQOOP-395] - Incorrect or missing SVN property settings
• [SQOOP-409] - hive-drop-import-delims doesn't work with MySQL direct import
• [SQOOP-414] - Column names are not guaranteed in order for getColumnNames of OracleManager
• [SQOOP-418] - MySQLAuthTest hangs when run against MySQL 5.5.3 or higher version
• [SQOOP-421] - User guide should state that when using --direct, hbase params get ignored
• [SQOOP-422] - Throw an exception when --direct and hbase* options are used together
• [SQOOP-424] - Codegen compilation fails with Hadoop 0.23
• [SQOOP-426] - Build command ant mvn-install generates Sqoop pom with incorrect group Id.
• [SQOOP-428] - AvroOutputFormat doesn't support compression even though documentation claims it does
• [SQOOP-430] - Duplicate Column problem with reserved words
• [SQOOP-433] - Tests are failing on current 0.23 version

Improvement

• [SQOOP-397] - Make Sqoop work with Hadoop 0.23
• [SQOOP-411] - Precompile Pattern for replacement of Hive delimiters
• [SQOOP-420] - sqoop - compatible with hadoop 1.0.0
• [SQOOP-432] - Enforce writing space after if statement

New Feature

• [SQOOP-337] - Create Sqoop Logo / Icon
• [SQOOP-362] - Allow user to override mapping when doing import to AVRO format

Task

• [SQOOP-396] - publish sqoop artifacts to Apache Maven repo
• [SQOOP-400] - Merge 1.4.0 release changes back to trunk
• [SQOOP-405] - Enable TestDataDrivenDBInputFormat for Hadoop 0.23 when appropriate
• [SQOOP-427] - Sqoop 1.4.1 release preparation