--- title: Hue 4.3 and its Analytics and Django improvements are out! author: admin type: post date: 2018-10-17T03:07:26+00:00 url: /hue-4-3-and-its-app-building-improvements-are-out/ sf_thumbnail_type: - none sf_thumbnail_link_type: - link_to_post sf_detail_type: - none sf_page_title: - 1 sf_page_title_style: - standard sf_no_breadcrumbs: - 1 sf_page_title_bg: - none sf_page_title_text_style: - light sf_background_image_size: - cover sf_social_sharing: - 1 sf_related_articles: - 1 sf_sidebar_config: - left-sidebar sf_left_sidebar: - Sidebar-2 sf_right_sidebar: - Sidebar-1 sf_caption_position: - caption-right sf_remove_promo_bar: - 1 ampforwp-amp-on-off: - default categories: - Version 4 - Release --- Hi Big Data Explorers,   The Hue Team is glad to thanks all the contributors and release Hue 4.3! [][1]   The focus of this release was a big refresh to upgrade [Django][2] to 1.11, the latest Python 2.7 compatible version at the time. It contains a log of improvements for the SQL [Editor][3] variables and catalog, as well as for the [Dashboarding][4]. It also prepares the ground for multi cluster support ([HUE-8330][5]) and building data apps more easily. This [release][6] comes with 900 commits and 200+ bug fixes! Go grab the tarball and give it a spin!


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Here is a list of the main improvements. For all the changes, check out the [release notes][7] and for a quick try open-up [demo.gethue.com][8]. # Summary * Upgraded core backend to Django 1.11 and now requires Python 2.7.x ([doc][9] for installing Python 2.7 on Centos/RHEL 6). * [Language Reference built-in, Column Sampling, black theme for Editor][10] [][11] * [Simplifying the end user Data Catalog search][12] [][13] * [SQL editor variables][14] [][15] * [Improved SQL Exploration][16] [][17] * [Get a mode to allow easy profiling of requests][18] * [Finer grain privileges in the Sentry App][19] * [Improved dashboards layouts][20] [][21] * [Improved job scheduling monitoring][22] * [Improved Oozie Workflow Graph display][23]   Onwards!   As usual thank you to all the project contributors and for sending feedback and participating on the [hue-user][24] list or [@gethue][25]!     [1]: https://cdn.gethue.com/uploads/2015/08/hue-logo-copy.png [2]: https://www.djangoproject.com/ [3]: https://gethue.com/sql-editor/ [4]: https://gethue.com/search-dashboards/ [5]: https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/HUE-8330 [6]: https://github.com/cloudera/hue/commits/release-4.3.0 [7]: http://cloudera.github.io/hue/docs-4.3.0/release-notes/release-notes-4.3.0.html [8]: http://demo.gethue.com/ [9]: http://cloudera.github.io/hue/latest/admin-manual/manual.html#centosoracleredhat-6x [10]: https://gethue.com/additional-sql-improvements-in-hue-4-3/ [11]: https://cdn.gethue.com/uploads/2018/10/sample_context_operations.gif [12]: https://gethue.com/simplifying-the-end-user-data-catalog-search/ [13]: https://cdn.gethue.com/uploads/2018/05/Top_Search_Drag.gif [14]: https://gethue.com/sql-editor-variables/ [15]: https://cdn.gethue.com/uploads/2018/04/variables_multi.png [16]: https://gethue.com/improved-sql-exploration-in-hue-4-3/ [17]: https://cdn.gethue.com/uploads/2018/05/SQL_Context_Navigation.gif [18]: https://gethue.com/get-a-mode-to-allow-easy-profiling-of-requests/ [19]: https://gethue.com/finer-grain-privileges/ [20]: http://Improved dashboards layouts [21]: https://cdn.gethue.com/uploads/2018/08/dashboard_layout_dnd.gif [22]: https://gethue.com/improved-job-scheduling-monitoring/ [23]: https://gethue.com/improved-oozie-workflow-graph-display-in-hue-4-3/ [24]: http://groups.google.com/a/cloudera.org/group/hue-user [25]: https://twitter.com/gethue