diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b9ff1eebe..4d9c8afb4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 - hadoop: Add `3.4.2` ([#1291]).
 - zookeeper: Add `3.9.4` ([#1292]).
 - nifi: Add `2.6.0` ([#1293]).
+- hive: Add `4.1.0` ([#1295]).
 
 ### Changed
 
@@ -84,6 +85,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 [#1291]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/1291
 [#1292]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/1292
 [#1293]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/1293
+[#1295]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/1295
 
 ## [25.7.0] - 2025-07-23
 
diff --git a/hive/Dockerfile b/hive/Dockerfile
index 2778dbc04..0940c0687 100644
--- a/hive/Dockerfile
+++ b/hive/Dockerfile
@@ -38,17 +38,23 @@ COPY --chown=${STACKABLE_USER_UID}:0 --from=hadoop-builder /stackable/patched-li
 USER ${STACKABLE_USER_UID}
 WORKDIR /stackable
 
+ENV NEW_VERSION="${PRODUCT_VERSION}-stackable${RELEASE_VERSION}"
+
+# Let's have patchable as a dedicated step, as it fetches the Hive sourcecode over the network,
+# thus taking a bit (which is annoying while development)
+RUN /stackable/patchable --images-repo-root=src checkout hive ${PRODUCT_VERSION} > /tmp/HIVE_SOURCE_DIR
+
+# Make expensive maven build a separate layer for better caching
 # Cache mounts are owned by root by default
 # We need to explicitly give the uid to use
 RUN --mount=type=cache,id=maven-hive-${PRODUCT_VERSION},uid=${STACKABLE_USER_UID},target=/stackable/.m2/repository <<EOF
-BUILD_SRC_DIR="$(/stackable/patchable --images-repo-root=src checkout hive ${PRODUCT_VERSION})"
+BUILD_SRC_DIR="$(cat /tmp/HIVE_SOURCE_DIR)" || exit 1
+rm /tmp/HIVE_SOURCE_DIR
 cd "$BUILD_SRC_DIR"
 
 # Make Maven aware of custom Stackable libraries
 cp -r /stackable/patched-libs/maven/* /stackable/.m2/repository
 
-NEW_VERSION="${PRODUCT_VERSION}-stackable${RELEASE_VERSION}"
-
 # generateBackupPoms=false is needed for the Hive 4.0.0 build to succeed, otherwise it fails with the obscure reason: `Too many files with unapproved license`
 mvn versions:set -DnewVersion=$NEW_VERSION -DartifactId=* -DgroupId=* -DgenerateBackupPoms=false
 
@@ -62,7 +68,7 @@ if [[ "${PRODUCT_VERSION}" == "3.1.3" ]] ; then
     --projects standalone-metastore
   mv standalone-metastore/target/apache-hive-metastore-${NEW_VERSION}-bin/apache-hive-metastore-${NEW_VERSION}-bin /stackable
   mv standalone-metastore/target/bom.json /stackable/apache-hive-metastore-${NEW_VERSION}-bin/apache-hive-metastore-${NEW_VERSION}.cdx.json
-else
+elif [[ "${PRODUCT_VERSION}" == 4.0.* ]]; then
   (
     # https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-20451 switched the metastore server packaging starting with 4.0.0
     mvn \
@@ -78,16 +84,34 @@ else
     # The schemaTool.sh is still pointing to the class location from Hive < 4.0.0, it seems like it was forgotten to update it
     sed -i -e 's/CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.tools.MetastoreSchemaTool/CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.tools.schematool.MetastoreSchemaTool/' /stackable/apache-hive-metastore-${NEW_VERSION}-bin/bin/ext/schemaTool.sh
   )
+else
+  # Starting with 4.1.0 the build process changed again in https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/5936 (HIVE-29062)
+  mvn \
+  clean package \
+  -Dhadoop.version=${HADOOP_VERSION}-stackable${RELEASE_VERSION} \
+  -DskipTests \
+  -Pdist
+  # Looks like we can not filter the projects using "--projects standalone-metastore/metastore-server --also-make",
+  # as this does not build a *.tar.gz
+
+  # We only seem to get a .tar.gz archive, so let's extract that to the correct location
+  tar --extract --directory=/stackable -f standalone-metastore/packaging/target/hive-standalone-metastore-${NEW_VERSION}-bin.tar.gz
+  mv standalone-metastore/metastore-server/target/bom.json /stackable/apache-hive-metastore-${NEW_VERSION}-bin/hive-standalone-metastore-${NEW_VERSION}.cdx.json
 fi
 
 # Remove sourcecode
-cd /stackable
 rm -rf "$BUILD_SRC_DIR"
+EOF
 
+RUN << EOF
+cd /stackable
 mkdir /stackable/jmx
 curl "https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/jmx-exporter/jmx_prometheus_javaagent-${JMX_EXPORTER_VERSION}.jar" -o "/stackable/jmx/jmx_prometheus_javaagent-${JMX_EXPORTER_VERSION}.jar"
 ln -s "/stackable/jmx/jmx_prometheus_javaagent-${JMX_EXPORTER_VERSION}.jar" /stackable/jmx/jmx_prometheus_javaagent.jar
 
+# Needed to run housekeeping jobs, see footnote <1> below
+cp /stackable/patched-libs/maven/org/apache/hadoop/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/${HADOOP_VERSION}-stackable${RELEASE_VERSION}/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core-${HADOOP_VERSION}-stackable${RELEASE_VERSION}.jar /stackable/apache-hive-metastore-${PRODUCT_VERSION}-stackable${RELEASE_VERSION}-bin/lib/
+
 # The next two sections for S3 and Azure use hardcoded version numbers on purpose instead of wildcards
 # This way the build will fail should one of the files not be available anymore in a later Hadoop version!
 
@@ -96,8 +120,11 @@ cp /stackable/hadoop-${HADOOP_VERSION}-stackable${RELEASE_VERSION}/share/hadoop/
 
 # According to https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hadoop-aws/tools/hadoop-aws/aws_sdk_upgrade.html, the jar filename has changed from
 # aws-java-sdk-bundle-${AWS_JAVA_SDK_BUNDLE_VERSION}.jar to bundle-${AWS_JAVA_SDK_BUNDLE_VERSION}.jar. In future, you might need to do:
-# cp /stackable/hadoop-${HADOOP_VERSION}-stackable${RELEASE_VERSION}/share/hadoop/tools/lib/bundle-${AWS_JAVA_SDK_BUNDLE_VERSION}.jar /stackable/apache-hive-metastore-${PRODUCT_VERSION}-stackable${RELEASE_VERSION}-bin/lib/
+if [[ "${PRODUCT_VERSION}" == "3.1.3" || "${PRODUCT_VERSION}" == 4.0.* ]]; then
 cp /stackable/hadoop-${HADOOP_VERSION}-stackable${RELEASE_VERSION}/share/hadoop/tools/lib/aws-java-sdk-bundle-${AWS_JAVA_SDK_BUNDLE_VERSION}.jar /stackable/apache-hive-metastore-${PRODUCT_VERSION}-stackable${RELEASE_VERSION}-bin/lib/
+else
+cp /stackable/hadoop-${HADOOP_VERSION}-stackable${RELEASE_VERSION}/share/hadoop/tools/lib/bundle-${AWS_JAVA_SDK_BUNDLE_VERSION}.jar /stackable/apache-hive-metastore-${PRODUCT_VERSION}-stackable${RELEASE_VERSION}-bin/lib/
+fi
 
 # Add Azure ABFS support (support for abfs://)
 cp /stackable/hadoop-${HADOOP_VERSION}-stackable${RELEASE_VERSION}/share/hadoop/tools/lib/hadoop-azure-${HADOOP_VERSION}-stackable${RELEASE_VERSION}.jar /stackable/apache-hive-metastore-${NEW_VERSION}-bin/lib/
@@ -118,7 +145,6 @@ fi
 chmod --recursive g=u /stackable
 EOF
 
-
 FROM local-image/java-base AS final
 
 ARG PRODUCT_VERSION
@@ -215,3 +241,28 @@ ENV HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME=/stackable/hadoop
 
 WORKDIR /stackable/hive-metastore
 # Start command is set by operator to something like "bin/start-metastore --config /stackable/config --db-type postgres --hive-bin-dir bin"
+
+
+
+# <1>: org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf need
+# 2025-10-06T08:42:04,137 ERROR [Metastore threads starter thread] metastore.HiveMetaStore: Failure when starting the leader tasks, Compaction or Housekeeping tasks may not happen
+# java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/hadoop/mapred/JobConf
+#         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.conf.HiveConf.initialize(HiveConf.java:6601) ~[hive-common-4.1.0.jar:4.1.0]
+#         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.conf.HiveConf.<init>(HiveConf.java:6569) ~[hive-common-4.1.0.jar:4.1.0]
+#         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.txn.compactor.CompactorThread.setConf(CompactorThread.java:68) ~[hive-exec-4.1.0-core.jar:4.1.0]
+#         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.leader.CompactorTasks.takeLeadership(CompactorTasks.java:139) ~[hive-standalone-metastore-server-4.1.0-stackable0.0.0-dev.jar:4.1.0-stackable0.0.0-dev]
+#         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.leader.LeaseLeaderElection.lambda$notifyListener$0(LeaseLeaderElection.java:141) ~[hive-standalone-metastore-server-4.1.0-stackable0.0.0-dev.jar:4.1.0-stackable0.0.0-dev]
+#         at java.base/java.util.ArrayList.forEach(Unknown Source) ~[?:?]
+#         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.leader.LeaseLeaderElection.notifyListener(LeaseLeaderElection.java:138) ~[hive-standalone-metastore-server-4.1.0-stackable0.0.0-dev.jar:4.1.0-stackable0.0.0-dev]
+#         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.leader.LeaseLeaderElection.doWork(LeaseLeaderElection.java:120) ~[hive-standalone-metastore-server-4.1.0-stackable0.0.0-dev.jar:4.1.0-stackable0.0.0-dev]
+#         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.leader.LeaseLeaderElection.tryBeLeader(LeaseLeaderElection.java:181) ~[hive-standalone-metastore-server-4.1.0-stackable0.0.0-dev.jar:4.1.0-stackable0.0.0-dev]
+#         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.leader.LeaseLeaderElection.tryBeLeader(LeaseLeaderElection.java:63) ~[hive-standalone-metastore-server-4.1.0-stackable0.0.0-dev.jar:4.1.0-stackable0.0.0-dev]
+#         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.leader.LeaderElectionContext.lambda$start$2(LeaderElectionContext.java:125) ~[hive-standalone-metastore-server-4.1.0-stackable0.0.0-dev.jar:4.1.0-stackable0.0.0-dev]
+#         at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) ~[?:?]
+#         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.leader.LeaderElectionContext.start(LeaderElectionContext.java:136) ~[hive-standalone-metastore-server-4.1.0-stackable0.0.0-dev.jar:4.1.0-stackable0.0.0-dev]
+#         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$8.run(HiveMetaStore.java:856) [hive-standalone-metastore-server-4.1.0-stackable0.0.0-dev.jar:4.1.0-stackable0.0.0-dev]
+# Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf
+#         at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) ~[?:?]
+#         at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) ~[?:?]
+#         at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) ~[?:?]
+#         ... 14 more
diff --git a/hive/boil-config.toml b/hive/boil-config.toml
index 7bbcca500..2c99809a8 100644
--- a/hive/boil-config.toml
+++ b/hive/boil-config.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ azure-storage-version = "7.0.1"
 azure-keyvault-core-version = "1.0.0"
 
 [versions."4.0.1".local-images]
-# Hive 4 must be built with Java 8 (according to GitHub README) but seems to run on Java 11
+# Hive 4.0 must be built with Java 8 (according to GitHub README) but seems to run on Java 11
 java-base = "11"
 java-devel = "8"
 "hadoop/hadoop" = "3.3.6"
@@ -36,3 +36,18 @@ jmx-exporter-version = "1.3.0"
 aws-java-sdk-bundle-version = "1.12.367"
 azure-storage-version = "7.0.1"
 azure-keyvault-core-version = "1.0.0"
+
+[versions."4.1.0".local-images]
+# Hive 4.1 requires Java 17 (according to GitHub README)
+java-base = "17"
+java-devel = "17"
+"hadoop/hadoop" = "3.4.2"
+
+[versions."4.1.0".build-arguments]
+jmx-exporter-version = "1.3.0"
+# Keep consistent with the dependency from hadoop-aws: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.hadoop/hadoop-aws/3.4.2
+aws-java-sdk-bundle-version = "2.29.52"
+# Keep consistent with the dependency from hadoop-azure: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.hadoop/hadoop-azure/3.4.2
+azure-storage-version = "7.0.1"
+# Keep consistent with the dependency from azure-storage: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.microsoft.azure/azure-storage/7.0.1
+azure-keyvault-core-version = "1.0.0"