title: Hue 4.8 and its improvements are out!
author: Hue Team
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date: 2020-09-23T00:00:00+00:00
url: /blog/hue-4-8-phoenix-flink-sparksql-components/
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- Version 4.8
- Release
Hi Data Explorers,
The Hue Team is glad to thanks all the contributors and release Hue 4.8!

This release brings all these improvements on top of 4.7:
- Editor
- Initial support of Flink, Phoenix, SparkSql SQL dialects
- Parser refactoring to make Apache Calcite grammar improvements easier
- API
- New components framework to make pieces clean and reusable
- ERD: Display an SQL table with its Foreigh Keys as links to other tables
- Parser: Reuse the JavaScript module to tokenize SQL queries
- REST API: invoke actions like 'Execute SQL query', 'List or download files on S3'
- How to login with Apache Knox in a secure cluster
- Development
- Preview
- REST API, Editor v2, Connectors, Python 3 got some progress
It has more than 650+ commits and 100+ bug fixes! For more details on all the changes, check out the release notes.
Go grab it and give it a spin!
Any feedback or question? Feel free to comment here or on the Forum and quick start SQL querying!
Onwards!