Release Notes for Sqoop 1.4.0-incubating: November, 2011

Release Notes - Sqoop - Version 1.4.0-incubating

Sub-task

[SQOOP-370] - Version number for upcoming release.
[SQOOP-371] - Migrate util package to new name space
[SQOOP-374] - Migrate tool and orm packages to new name space
[SQOOP-375] - Migrate metastore and metastore.hsqldb packages to new name space
[SQOOP-376] - Migrate mapreduce package to new name space
[SQOOP-377] - Migrate mapreduce.db package to new name space
[SQOOP-378] - Migrate manager package to new name space
[SQOOP-379] - Migrate lib and io packages to new name space
[SQOOP-380] - Migrate hive and hbase packages to new name space
[SQOOP-381] - Migrate cli and config packages to new name space
[SQOOP-383] - Version tool is not working.
[SQOOP-386] - Namespace migration cleanup
[SQOOP-388] - Add license header to Hive testdata
[SQOOP-389] - Include change log

Bug

[SQOOP-308] - Generated Avro Schema cannot handle nullable fields
[SQOOP-314] - Basic export hangs when target database does not support INSERT syntax with multiple rows of values
[SQOOP-317] - OracleManager should allow working with tables owned by other users.
[SQOOP-319] - The --hive-drop-import-delims option should accept a replacement string
[SQOOP-323] - Support for the NVARCHAR datatype
[SQOOP-325] - Sqoop doesn't build on intellij
[SQOOP-329] - SQOOP doesn't work with the DB2 JCC driver
[SQOOP-330] - Free form query import with column transformation failed without obvious error message
[SQOOP-332] - Cannot use --as-avrodatafile with --query
[SQOOP-336] - Avro import does not support varbinary types
[SQOOP-338] - NPE after specifying incorrect JDBC credentials
[SQOOP-339] - Use of non-portable mknod utility causes build problems on Mac OS X
[SQOOP-340] - Rise exception when both --direct and --as--sequencefile or --as-avrodatafile are given
[SQOOP-341] - Sqoop doesn't handle unsigned ints at least with MySQL
[SQOOP-346] - Sqoop needs to be using java version 1.6 for its source
[SQOOP-349] - A bunch of the fields are wrong in pom.xml
[SQOOP-358] - Sqoop import fails on netezza nvarchar datatype with --as-avrodatafile
[SQOOP-359] - Import fails with Unknown SQL datatype exception
[SQOOP-364] - Default getCurTimestampQuery() in SqlManager is not working for PostgreSQL
[SQOOP-368] - Resolve ERROR tool.ImportTool: Imported Failed: Duplicate Column identifier specified: 'COLUMN-NAME'
[SQOOP-373] - Can only write to default file system on direct import
[SQOOP-385] - Typo in PostgresqlTest.java regarding configuring postgresql.conf.

Improvement

[SQOOP-303] - Use Catalog Tables for PostgresqlManager
[SQOOP-315] - Update Avro version to 1.5.2
[SQOOP-316] - Sqoop user guide should have a troubleshooting section.
[SQOOP-318] - Add support for splittable lzo files with Hive
[SQOOP-320] - Use Information Schema for SQLServerManager
[SQOOP-321] - Support date/time columns for "--incremental append" option
[SQOOP-326] - Updgrade Avro dependency to version 1.5.3
[SQOOP-351] - Sqoop User Guide's troubleshooting section should include Case-Sensitive Catalog Query Errors
[SQOOP-353] - Cleanup the if/else statement in HiveTypes
[SQOOP-354] - SQOOP needs to be made compatible with Hadoop .23 release
[SQOOP-355] - improve SQOOP documentation of Avro data file support
[SQOOP-357] - To make debugging easier, Sqoop should print out all the exceptions
[SQOOP-361] - [Docs] $CONDITIONS must be escaped to not allow shells to replace it.
[SQOOP-366] - Sqoop User Guide's troubleshooting section should include MySQL setup instructions

New Feature

[SQOOP-305] - Support export from Avro Data Files
[SQOOP-313] - Multiple column names to be included in --update-key argument with SQOOP export (update)
[SQOOP-327] - Mixed update/insert export support for OracleManager
[SQOOP-331] - Support boundary query on the command line
[SQOOP-342] - Allow user to override sqoop type mapping
[SQOOP-367] - codegen support free-form query

Task

[SQOOP-302] - Use Information Schema for MySQLManager
[SQOOP-309] - Update Sqoop dependency versions
[SQOOP-310] - Review license headers