--- title: 'Hue 3.8 with an Oozie Editor revamp, better performances & improved Spark UI is out!' author: admin type: post date: 2015-04-24T06:53:41+00:00 url: /hue-3-8-with-an-oozie-editor-revamp-better-performances-improved-spark-ui-is-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_sidebar_config: - left-sidebar sf_left_sidebar: - Sidebar-2 sf_right_sidebar: - Sidebar-1 sf_caption_position: - caption-right sf_remove_promo_bar: - 1 categories: - Release --- _Edit: 3.8.1 was released May 4th 2015 and is now the default version_   Hi Big Data Munchers,   The Hue Team is glad to release Hue 3.8 and its improved [Oozie Editor][1] and [better performances][2]! A new Spark REST Job Server with a [Notebook UI][3] are also appearing in a Beta version for all the eager Spark developers that would like to give it a try. A [tarball][4] is available as well as [documentation][5] and [release notes][6]. This release is a big step forwards and comes with more than 1000 commits!  


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  **Note** If you built [custom apps][7], follow the [upgrade guide][8]!   Here is a summary of the main improvements (got on the [3.8 blog][9] for more details):   **Oozie**
New Editor (edit mode)
Editor * [New look][1] and less knowledge of Oozie required * [Importing / exporting workflows is easier][11] * Workflows supports tens of [new functionalities][12] * Support of the new HiveServer2 and Spark Action * Coordinator user experience is simpler   Dashboard * Easy way to differentiate workflows submitted manually or by coordinators * Sub-workflow links to corresponding workflows and logs * Update end time of coordinator * Hive jobs ids are visible   See more details about the [Editor][1] and [Dashboard][13].   **Stability/performance** [][14] * [Hue HA][15] * [Static files caching and running with NGINX][2] * [Hive 1.1 support][16] * [Major upgrade of Django 1.6][8] * [Run with Apache Server][17] * Fixed a number of deadlocks * Fixed some non-standard Oracle DB issues   **Search** [][18] * Regular users can now also create dashboards * Range & Up facet * 2D maps * Collection aliases querying * Multiple widgets using the same fields * [Enable only the Search app][19] * [Export and import dashboard][20]   [More detailed information here...][21]   **Spark Notebook (beta)** [][22] * [New REST Spark Job Server][23] (beta) * [Notebook Web UI][3] (beta) * Scala, Java, Python * YARN cluster   **Security** [][24] * Sensitive data redaction in logs and SQL editors (PCI) * [HTTPS/SSL configuration][25] * [Use Impala/Hive with LDAP authentication and SSL][26] * [HCatalog with Pig Editor and security][27] * [SAML 2.0 support][28] * [LDAP Debugging][29] * [Add a customized top banner][30]   **HBase** [][31] * [Impersonation with or without Kerberos][32]   **New ways to install Hue** * [EMR][33] * [HDP][34] * [On a Mac][35] * [Ubuntu 14.04][36]   **Conferences** It was a pleasure to present at [Lucene Solr Revolution][37] in Washington DC and [Big Data Spain][38] in Madrid.   ## **Next!**   Next release (3.9) will mostly focus on Spark & Search and bring general improvements/feature completeness in [all the apps][39].   In parallel, the design & development of Hue 4 is kicking in with the goal of becoming the equivalent of “Excel for Big Data”. A fresh new look, a unification of all the apps, wizards for ingesting data... will let you use the full platform in a single UI for fast Big Data querying and prototyping!   Onwards!!   As usual feel free to contribute to the project and participate on the [hue-user][40] list or [@gethue][41]!   [1]: https://gethue.com/new-apache-oozie-workflow-coordinator-bundle-editors/ [2]: https://gethue.com/using-nginx-to-speed-up-hue-3-8-0/ [3]: https://gethue.com/new-notebook-application-for-spark-sql [4]: https://cdn.gethue.com/downloads/releases/3.8.1/hue-3.8.1.tgz [5]: http://cloudera.github.io/hue/docs-3.8.0/index.html [6]: http://cloudera.github.io/hue/docs-3.8.0/release-notes/release-notes-3.8.0.html [7]: https://gethue.com/app-store/ [8]: https://gethue.com/developer-guide-on-upgrading-apps-for-django-1-6/ [9]: https://gethue.com/category/hue-3-8/ [10]: https://cdn.gethue.com/uploads/2015/03/oozie-v2-editor.png [11]: https://gethue.com/export-and-import-your-oozie-workflows/ [12]: https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/HUE-2180 [13]: https://gethue.com/oozie-dashboard-improvements/ [14]: https://cdn.gethue.com/uploads/2015/03/with-nginx.png [15]: https://gethue.com/automatic-high-availability-with-hue-and-cloudera-manager/ [16]: https://gethue.com/hive-1-1-and-impala-2-2-support/ [17]: https://gethue.com/how-to-run-hue-with-the-apache-server/ [18]: https://cdn.gethue.com/uploads/2015/04/search-v2.2.png [19]: https://gethue.com/solr-search-ui-only/ [20]: https://gethue.com/export-and-import-your-search-dashboards/ [21]: https://gethue.com/more-solr-search-dashboards-possibilities/ [22]: https://cdn.gethue.com/uploads/2015/04/notebook-1.png [23]: https://github.com/cloudera/hue/tree/master/apps/spark/java#welcome-to-livy-the-rest-spark-server [24]: https://cdn.gethue.com/uploads/2015/03/Screenshot-2015-03-23-16.33.12.png [25]: https://gethue.com/configure-hue-with-https-ssl/ [26]: https://gethue.com/how-to-use-hue-with-hive-and-impala-configured-with-ldap-authentication-and-ssl/ [27]: https://gethue.com/how-to-use-hcatalog-with-pig-in-a-secured-cluster/ [28]: https://gethue.com/updated-saml-2-0-support/ [29]: https://gethue.com/making-hadoop-accessible-to-your-employees-with-ldap/#t12b [30]: https://gethue.com/add-a-top-banner-to-hue/ [31]: https://cdn.gethue.com/uploads/2015/03/hbase.png [32]: https://gethue.com/hbase-browsing-with-doas-impersonation-and-kerberos/ [33]: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticMapReduce/latest/DeveloperGuide/emr-hue.html [34]: https://gethue.com/hadoop-hue-3-on-hdp-installation-tutorial/ [35]: https://gethue.com/start-developing-hue-on-a-mac-in-a-few-minutes/ [36]: https://gethue.com/how-to-build-hue-on-ubuntu-14-04-trusty/ [37]: https://gethue.com/presentation-solr-lucene-revolution-interactively-search-and-visualize-your-big-data/ [38]: https://gethue.com/big-data-spain-2014-big-data-web-applications-for-interactive-hadoop/ [39]: https://issues.cloudera.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=10930 [40]: http://groups.google.com/a/cloudera.org/group/hue-user [41]: https://twitter.com/gethue