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title: "4.4.0" date: 2019-03-13T18:28:08-07:00 draft: false weight: -4040

tags: ['skipIndexing']

Hue v4.4.0, released March 28th 2019

Hue, http://gethue.com, is Hue is an open source SQL Cloud Assistant for developing and accessing SQL/Data Apps.

Its main features:

  • Editors to query with SQL any database and submit jobs
  • Dashboards to dynamically interact and visualize data
  • Scheduler of jobs and workflows
  • Browsers for data and a Data Catalog

Read the complete list of improvements on Hue 4.4 is out!.

Summary

The focus of this release was to improve the self service SQL troubleshooting and stability.

Notable Changes

  • Easier Self Service Query Troubleshooting
    • Prettier display of the SQL Query Profile
  • Better compatibility with Hive in HDP
    • Apache Hive has typically been very innovative in the Hortonworks distribution. Support for Tez and Hive LLAP was bumped.
    • The jobs will show up in Job Browser
    • The query ID is printed
    • The progress is displayed
  • Misc Improvements
    • More than 80 bugs were fixed to improve the supportability and stability. The full list is in the release notes but here are the top ones:
    • HUE-7474 [core] Add ability to enable/disable Hue data/file "download" options globally
    • HUE-7128 [core] Apply config ENABLE_DOWNLOAD to search dashboard
    • HUE-8680 [core] Fill in Impalad WEBUI username passwords automatically
    • HUE-8585 [useradmin] Bubbling up errors for Add Sync Ldap Users
    • HUE-8690 [backend] Fix Hue allows unsigned SAML assertions
    • HUE-8140 [editor] Improve multi-statement execution
    • HUE-8662 [core] Fix missing static URLs
  • The Hue Docker image was simplified
  • Upstream documentations has a better table of contents, restyling, update of old instructions... Reporting issues or sending a suggestion is one click away via GitHub, so feel free to send some pull requests!

Compatibility

Runs on CentOS versions 6.8+, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 6, 7), and Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04.

Tested with CDH6. Specifically:

  • Hadoop 3.0
  • Hive 2.1 / 3.0
  • Oozie 5.0
  • HBase 2.0
  • Pig 0.17
  • Impala 3.0
  • Solr 7.4
  • Spark 2.2

Other versions should work, but not tested.

Supported Browsers:

Hue works with the two most recent versions of the following browsers.

  • Chrome
  • Firefox LTS
  • Safari (not supported on Windows)
  • Internet Explorer / Edge

Runs with Python 2.7+

Note: CentOS 6 and RHEL 6 require EPEL python 2.7 package.

List of 450+ Commits

Contributors

This Hue release is made possible thanks to the contribution from:

  • Aaron Newton
  • Aaron Peddle
  • Aaron T. Myers
  • abec
  • Abraham Elmahrek
  • Aditya Acharya
  • Adrian Yavorskyy
  • aig
  • airokey
  • Alex Breshears
  • Alex Newman
  • Alex (posi) Newman
  • alheio
  • alphaskade
  • Ambreen Kazi
  • Amit Kabra
  • Andrei Savu
  • Andrew Bayer
  • Andrew Yao
  • Andy Braslavskiy
  • Ann McCown
  • antbell
  • Antonio Bellezza
  • arahuja
  • Ashu Pachauri
  • Atupal
  • Avindra Goolcharan
  • bcwalrus
  • bc Wong
  • Ben Bishop
  • Ben Gooley
  • Ben White
  • Bhargava Kalathuru
  • Bruce Mitchener
  • Bruno Mahé
  • bschell
  • bwang
  • cconner
  • Chris Conner
  • Chris Stephens
  • Christopher Conner
  • Christopher McConnell
  • Christopherwq Conner
  • cmconner156
  • Craig Minihan
  • cwalet
  • Daehan Kim
  • dbeech
  • denniszag
  • Derek Chen-Becker
  • Diego Sevilla Ruiz
  • Dominik Gehl
  • Eli Collins
  • Enrico Berti
  • Erick Tryzelaar
  • Ewan Higgs
  • fatherfox
  • gdgt
  • Gilad Wolff
  • grundprinzip
  • Grzegorz Kokosiński
  • Guido Serra
  • happywind
  • Harsh
  • Harsh J
  • Hector Acosta
  • Henry Robinson
  • Igor Wiedler
  • Ilkka Turunen
  • Istvan
  • Ivan Dzikovsky
  • Ivan Orlov
  • Jack McCracken
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  • Jakub Kukul
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