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title: Hue 4.8 and its improvements are out!
author: Hue Team
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date: 2020-09-23T00:00:00+00:00
url: /blog/hue-4-8-phoenix-flink-sparksql-components/
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# - Version 4.8
- Release
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Hi Data Explorers,
The Hue Team is glad to thanks all the contributors and release Hue 4.8!
This release brings all these improvements on top of [4.7](/blog/hue-4-7-and-its-improvements-are-out/):
* [SQL Editor](/blog/sql-querying-improvements-phoenix-flink-sparksql-erd-table/)
* Initial support of Apache [Flink](/blog/sql-editor-for-apache-flink-sql/), [Phoenix](/sql-querying-apache-hbase-with-apache-phoenix/), [SparkSql](/blog/quick-task-sql-editor-for-apache-spark-sql-with-livy/) SQL dialects
* Parser refactoring to make Apache Calcite grammar improvements easier
* Entity Relationship Diagram of SQL tables with Foreigh Keys as links to other tables
* Improved collaboration with [Query sharing and SQL Gist](/blog/2020-03-04-datawarehouse-database-sql-collaboration-and-sharing-with-link-and-gist/)
* API
* New [components framework](https://docs.gethue.com/developer/components/) to make pieces clean and reusable
* ERD Diagram of SQL tables
* Parser: Reuse the JavaScript module to tokenize SQL queries
* [REST API](/blog/rest-api-execute-sql-queries-browse-files/): invoke actions like 'Execute SQL query', 'List or download files on S3'
* How to login with Apache Knox in a secure cluster
* Development
* [Docker](/quickstart-hue-in-docker/) / Kubernetes / Grafana config were refreshed
* Continuous Integration: Python lint, commit messages checks, JavaScript licenses
* Onboarding experience simplified
* Preview
* Editor v2, Connectors, Python 3 are in beta
It has more than 600+ commits and 200+ bug fixes! For more details on all the changes, check out the [release notes](https://docs.gethue.com/releases/release-notes-4.8.0/).
Go grab it and give it a spin!
* Docker
```
docker run -it -p 8888:8888 gethue/4.8.0
```
* Kubernetes :
```
helm repo add gethue https://helm.gethue.com
helm repo update
helm install gethue/hue
```
* [demo.gethue.com](demo.gethue.com)
* [Tarball](https://cdn.gethue.com/downloads/hue-4.8.0.tgz) or [source](https://github.com/cloudera/hue/archive/release-4.8.0.zip)
Any feedback or question? Feel free to comment here or on the Forum and quick start SQL querying!
Onwards!
Romain from the Hue Team