diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3f4cec26b..f974a9582 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 - testing-tools: Add java, tzdata-java, unzip ([#464], [#465], [#466]).
 
 - hadoop: added support for 3.2.4, 3.3.6 ([#478]).
+- hive: added upload new version script ([#472]).
 - opa: add version 0.57.0 ([#471]).
 - opa: add new version upload script ([#471]).
 - zookeeper: add version 3.8.3 ([#470]).
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 - airflow: Updated statsd-exporter to 0.24, this was accidentally moved to a very old version previously (0.3.0) ([#431]).
 - airflow: Added wrapper script to allow the triggering of pre/post hook actions ([#435]).
 - hadoop: bumped jmx-exporter version to 0.20.0 ([#478]).
+- hive: bump jmx-exporter to 0.20.0 ([#472]).
 - zookeeper: bumped jmx-exporter version to 0.20.0 ([#470]).
 
 ### Removed
@@ -42,8 +44,9 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 - pyspark-k8s: The PySpark image has been removed completely. Python is now installed with the Spark image ([#436])
 - Removed all product specific changelogs and updated the root file ([#440])
 
-- opa: removed versions 0.27.1, 0.28.0, 0.37.2, 0.41.0, 0.45.0 ([#471]).
 - hadoop: removed support for 3.3.1, 3.3.3 ([#478]).
+- hive: remove version 2.3.9 ([#472]).
+- opa: removed versions 0.27.1, 0.28.0, 0.37.2, 0.41.0, 0.45.0 ([#471]).
 - zookeeper: removed versions 3.5.8, 3.6.3, 3.7.0, 3.8.0 ([#470]).
 
 [#400]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/400
@@ -63,6 +66,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 [#466]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/466
 [#470]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/470
 [#471]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/471
+[#472]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/472
 [#478]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/478
 [#479]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/479
 
diff --git a/conf.py b/conf.py
index d87b897fd..0fb65d9df 100644
--- a/conf.py
+++ b/conf.py
@@ -110,17 +110,9 @@
     {
         "name": "hive",
         "versions": [
-            {
-                "product": "2.3.9",
-                "java-base": "11",
-                "hadoop_libs": "2.10.1",
-                "jackson_dataformat_xml": "2.7.9",
-                "aws_java_sdk_bundle": "1.11.271",
-                "azure_storage": "7.0.1",
-                "azure_keyvault_core": "1.0.0",
-            },
             {
                 "product": "3.1.3",
+                "jmx_exporter": "0.20.0",
                 "java-base": "11",
                 "hadoop_libs": "3.3.3",
                 "jackson_dataformat_xml": "2.12.3",
diff --git a/hive/Dockerfile b/hive/Dockerfile
index ebc49baf5..a0d67abde 100644
--- a/hive/Dockerfile
+++ b/hive/Dockerfile
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 FROM stackable/image/java-base
 
 ARG PRODUCT
+ARG JMX_EXPORTER
 ARG HADOOP_LIBS
 ARG JACKSON_DATAFORMAT_XML
 ARG AWS_JAVA_SDK_BUNDLE
@@ -31,43 +32,49 @@ USER stackable
 WORKDIR /stackable
 
 # Download hive and hadoop
-RUN curl -L https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/hive/apache-hive-${PRODUCT}-bin.tar.gz | tar -xzC . && \
+RUN curl --fail -L https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/hive/apache-hive-${PRODUCT}-bin.tar.gz | tar -xzC . && \
     ln -s /stackable/apache-hive-${PRODUCT}-bin/apache-hive-${PRODUCT}-bin /stackable/hive && \
     ln -s /stackable/apache-hive-${PRODUCT}-bin/hadoop-${HADOOP_LIBS} /stackable/hadoop && \
     # Force to overwrite the existing 'start-metastore'
     ln -sf /stackable/bin/start-metastore /stackable/hive/bin/start-metastore
 
 # Download aws module for Hadoop (support for s3a://)
-RUN curl -L https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/aws/hadoop-aws-${HADOOP_LIBS}.jar \
+RUN curl --fail -L https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/aws/hadoop-aws-${HADOOP_LIBS}.jar \
     -o /stackable/hive/lib/hadoop-aws-${HADOOP_LIBS}.jar && \
     chmod -x /stackable/hive/lib/hadoop-aws-${HADOOP_LIBS}.jar
 
 # Download aws sdk bundle containing all the needed S3 Classes for hadoop-aws. Must match version hadoop-aws was compiled against
-RUN curl -L https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/aws/aws-java-sdk-bundle-${AWS_JAVA_SDK_BUNDLE}.jar \
+RUN curl --fail -L https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/aws/aws-java-sdk-bundle-${AWS_JAVA_SDK_BUNDLE}.jar \
     -o /stackable/hive/lib/aws-java-sdk-bundle-${AWS_JAVA_SDK_BUNDLE}.jar && \
     chmod -x /stackable/hive/lib/aws-java-sdk-bundle-${AWS_JAVA_SDK_BUNDLE}.jar
 
 # Download azure module for Hadoop (support for abfs://)
-RUN curl -L https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/aws/hadoop-azure-${HADOOP_LIBS}.jar \
+RUN curl --fail -L https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/azure/hadoop-azure-${HADOOP_LIBS}.jar \
     -o /stackable/hive/lib/hadoop-azure-${HADOOP_LIBS}.jar && \
     chmod -x /stackable/hive/lib/hadoop-azure-${HADOOP_LIBS}.jar
 
 # Download azure libs containing all the needed ABFS Classes for hadoop-azure. Must match version hadoop-azure was compiled against
-RUN curl -L https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/azure/azure-storage-${AZURE_STORAGE}.jar \
+RUN curl --fail -L https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/azure/azure-storage-${AZURE_STORAGE}.jar \
     -o /stackable/hive/lib/azure-storage-${AZURE_STORAGE}.jar && \
     chmod -x /stackable/hive/lib/azure-storage-${AZURE_STORAGE}.jar
-RUN curl -L https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/azure/azure-keyvault-core-${AZURE_KEYVAULT_CORE}.jar \
+RUN curl --fail -L https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/azure/azure-keyvault-core-${AZURE_KEYVAULT_CORE}.jar \
     -o /stackable/hive/lib/azure-keyvault-core-${AZURE_KEYVAULT_CORE}.jar && \
     chmod -x /stackable/hive/lib/azure-keyvault-core-${AZURE_KEYVAULT_CORE}.jar
 
-# Download jmx exporter (needed for metrics)
-RUN curl https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/jmx-exporter/jmx_prometheus_javaagent-0.16.1.jar \
-    -o /stackable/jmx/jmx_prometheus_javaagent-0.16.1.jar && \
-    chmod -x /stackable/jmx/jmx_prometheus_javaagent-0.16.1.jar
+# The symlink from JMX Exporter 0.16.1 to the versionless link exists because old HDFS Operators (up until and including 23.7) used to hardcode
+# the version of JMX Exporter like this: "-javaagent:/stackable/jmx/jmx_prometheus_javaagent-0.16.1.jar"
+# This is a TEMPORARY fix which means that we can keep the hardcoded path in HDFS operator FOR NOW as it will still point to a newer version of JMX Exporter, despite the "0.16.1" in the name.
+# At the same time a new HDFS Operator will still work with older images which do not have the symlink to the versionless jar.
+# After one of our next releases (23.11 or 24.x) we should update the operator to point at the non-versioned symlink (jmx_prometheus_javaagent.jar)
+# And then we can also remove the symlink to 0.16.1 from this Dockerfile.
+RUN curl --fail "https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/jmx-exporter/jmx_prometheus_javaagent-${JMX_EXPORTER}.jar" -o "/stackable/jmx/jmx_prometheus_javaagent-${JMX_EXPORTER}.jar" && \
+    chmod -x "/stackable/jmx/jmx_prometheus_javaagent-${JMX_EXPORTER}.jar" && \
+    ln -s "/stackable/jmx/jmx_prometheus_javaagent-${JMX_EXPORTER}.jar" /stackable/jmx/jmx_prometheus_javaagent.jar && \
+    ln -s /stackable/jmx/jmx_prometheus_javaagent.jar /stackable/jmx/jmx_prometheus_javaagent-0.16.1.jar
 
 # Logging
 RUN rm /stackable/hive/lib/log4j-slf4j-impl* && \
-    curl https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/jackson-dataformat-xml/jackson-dataformat-xml-${JACKSON_DATAFORMAT_XML}.jar \
+    curl --fail https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/jackson-dataformat-xml/jackson-dataformat-xml-${JACKSON_DATAFORMAT_XML}.jar \
     -o /stackable/hive/lib/jackson-dataformat-xml-${JACKSON_DATAFORMAT_XML}.jar && \
     chmod -x /stackable/hive/lib/jackson-dataformat-xml-${JACKSON_DATAFORMAT_XML}.jar
 
diff --git a/hive/upload_new_hive_version.sh b/hive/upload_new_hive_version.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..98bdae51b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hive/upload_new_hive_version.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+VERSION=${1:?"Missing version number argument (arg 1)"}
+NEXUS_USER=${2:?"Missing Nexus username argument (arg 2)"}
+
+read -r -s -p "Nexus Password: " NEXUS_PASSWORD
+echo ""
+
+# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4632028/how-to-create-a-temporary-directory
+# Find the directory name of the script
+DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
+
+# the temp directory used, within $DIR
+WORK_DIR=$(mktemp -d -p "$DIR")
+
+# check if tmp dir was created
+if [[ ! "$WORK_DIR" || ! -d "$WORK_DIR" ]]; then
+  echo "Could not create temp dir"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# deletes the temp directory
+function cleanup {
+  rm -rf "$WORK_DIR"
+}
+
+# register the cleanup function to be called on the EXIT signal
+trap cleanup EXIT
+
+cd "$WORK_DIR" || exit
+
+bin_file="apache-hive-${VERSION}-bin.tar.gz"
+
+echo "Downloading Hive (this can take a while, it is intentionally downloading from a slow mirror that contains all old versions)"
+curl --fail -LOs "https://dlcdn.apache.org/hive/hive-${VERSION}/${bin_file}"
+curl --fail -LOs "https://dlcdn.apache.org/hive/hive-${VERSION}/${bin_file}.asc"
+curl --fail -LOs "https://dlcdn.apache.org/hive/hive-${VERSION}/${bin_file}.sha256"
+
+# It is probably redundant to check both the checksum and the signature but it's cheap and why not
+echo "Validating SHA256 Checksums"
+if ! (sha256sum "${bin_file}" | diff - "${bin_file}.sha256"); then
+  echo "ERROR: One of the SHA256 sum does not match"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "Validating signatures"
+echo '--> NOTE: Make sure you have downloaded and added the KEYS file (https://dlcdn.apache.org/hive/KEYS) to GPG: https://www.apache.org/info/verification.html'
+
+if ! (gpg --verify "$bin_file.asc" "$bin_file" 2> /dev/null); then
+  echo "ERROR: Signature could not be verified"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "Uploading everything to Nexus"
+EXIT_STATUS=0
+curl --fail -u "$NEXUS_USER:$NEXUS_PASSWORD" --upload-file "$bin_file" 'https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/hive/' || EXIT_STATUS=$?
+curl --fail -u "$NEXUS_USER:$NEXUS_PASSWORD" --upload-file "$bin_file.asc" 'https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/hive/' || EXIT_STATUS=$?
+curl --fail -u "$NEXUS_USER:$NEXUS_PASSWORD" --upload-file "$bin_file.sha256" 'https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/hive/' || EXIT_STATUS=$?
+
+if [ $EXIT_STATUS -ne 0 ]; then
+  echo "ERROR: Upload failed"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "Successfully uploaded version $VERSION of Hive to Nexus"
+echo "https://repo.stackable.tech/service/rest/repository/browse/packages/hive/"