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title: Hue 4.2 and its Self Service BI improvements are out!
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date: 2018-04-04T17:30:45+00:00
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Hi Big Data Explorers,
The Hue Team is glad to thanks all the contributors and release Hue 4.2! [
][1]
Last Hue version compatible with Python 2.6, next will be 2.7 only as a major upgrade is coming next.
The focus of this release was to keep making progress on the self service BI theme and prepare the ground for next release that will include an upgraded backend and a revamped Dashboard and more improvements to the Data Catalog and Query Assistance.
This release comes with 1200 commits and 500+ bug fixes! Go grab the tarball and give it a spin!
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# Analytical DB
## Data Catalog Search
][7]
## Syntax Checker
* Warn before executing
* Can suggest simple fix
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## Impala Query Browser
Goal: built-in Troubleshooting for:
* Queries
* Profiles
* Plans
* Memory
[Read more in this blog post.][10]
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# Dashboard
Apache Solr dynamic Dashboards:
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# Supportability
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Onwards!
As usual thank you to all the project contributors and for sending feedback and participating on the [hue-user][18] list or [@gethue][19]!
p.s.: in case the Dropbox link doesn't work on the network you are currently in, here's a [mirror of the release][20].
[1]: https://cdn.gethue.com/uploads/2015/08/hue-logo-copy.png
[2]: http://cloudera.github.io/hue/docs-4.2.0/release-notes/release-notes-4.2.0.html
[3]: http://demo.gethue.com/
[4]: https://gethue.com/browsing-adls-data-querying-it-with-sql-and-exporting-the-results-back-in-hue-4-2/
[5]: https://gethue.com/introducing-s3-support-in-hue/
[6]: https://cdn.gethue.com/uploads/2017/11/image2.png
[7]: https://cdn.gethue.com/uploads/2018/01/top_search.png
[8]: https://cdn.gethue.com/uploads/2018/01/syntax_checkerhigh.png
[9]: https://cdn.gethue.com/uploads/2018/01/checker_help.png
[10]: https://gethue.com/browsing-impala-query-execution-within-the-sql-editor/
[11]: https://cdn.gethue.com/uploads/2017/11/General.png
[12]: https://cdn.gethue.com/uploads/2018/01/solr_more_like_this.png
[13]: https://cdn.gethue.com/uploads/2018/01/dashboard_autocomplete.png
[14]: https://cdn.gethue.com/uploads/2018/01/hue_metric_page.png
[15]: https://gethue.com/self-service-bi-doing-a-customer-360-by-querying-and-joining-salesforce-marketing-and-log-datasets/
[16]: https://gethue.com/sql-editor/
[17]: https://cdn.gethue.com/uploads/2017/10/customer-360-datasets.png
[18]: http://groups.google.com/a/cloudera.org/group/hue-user
[19]: https://twitter.com/gethue
[20]: https://cdn.gethue.com/downloads/releases/4.2.0/hue-4.2.0.tgz