title: Hue 4.2 and its Self Service BI improvements are out! author: admin type: post date: 2018-04-04T17:30:45+00:00 url: /hue-4-2-and-its-self-service-bi-improvements-are-out/ sf_thumbnail_type:
Hi Big Data Explorers,
The Hue Team is glad to thanks all the contributors and release Hue 4.2! 
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!
Here is a list of the main improvements. For all the changes, check out the release notes and for a quick try open-up demo.gethue.com.
3 main areas of focus
Cloud
Analytic DB
Supportability
ADLS Browser (similar to HFS & S3 Browser)
Example of searches:
Goal: built-in Troubleshooting for:
Apache Solr dynamic Dashboards:
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<span style="font-weight: 300;">UX improvements (document listing, opening back query history scroll, CTRL+Z...)</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 300;">Performances (concurrency, file downloads, query timeouts)</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 300;">Support multi-authentication with LDAP</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 300;">YARN "Diagnostics" info in Job Browser</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 300;">Option to disable concurrent user sessions "concurrent_user_session_limit"</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 300;">Rebalance user on log out</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 300;">Editor grid result not correctly aligned when browser zoom is not 100%</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 300;">...</span>
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In this Self Service analytics Customer 360 demo we use the Editor to query credit card transaction data that is saved in an object store in the cloud (here S3) and in a Kudu table. The demos leverages the Data Catalog search and tagging as well as the Query Assistant.
Onwards!
As usual thank you to all the project contributors and for sending feedback and participating on the hue-user list or @gethue!
p.s.: in case the Dropbox link doesn't work on the network you are currently in, here's a mirror of the release.