title: Hue 4.6 and its improvements are out!
author: Hue Team
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date: 2019-12-03T02:36:35+00:00
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Hi Data Explorers,
The Hue Team is glad to thanks all the contributors and release Hue 4.6!

The focus of this release was to keep building on top of 4.5 and modularize the tech stack, improve SQL integrations and prepare major upcoming features. In particular now:
- Python 3 support can be tested
- There is a new version of gethue.com and the content of docs.gethue.com was refreshed
- The new version of the Editor with multi execution contexts and more robustness is 66% done
This release comes with 660 commits and 150+ bug fixes! For all the changes, check out the release notes.
Go grab it and give it a spin!

Here is a selection of improvements:
SQL
- Hive Tez improvements
- Atlas remainder
- SQL parser + highlighter tutorials
- Support of transactional tables in the importer/samples
- Primary Keys, Partition Keys showing in the assists
- Tracing + demo.gethue
- HUE-9055 [hive] INTEGER is introduced as a synonym for INT in 2.2
Collab
- Sharing icons and action in left assist
- Clipboard proper copy
- Gist
Cloud
- docs k8s + logs
- 3 blogs: tracing, logs, metrics
- IdBroker / Knox
- ADLS v2 / ABFS v1
- GS preview
HUE-8983 [fb] Handle s3 with ListAllMyBuckets denied
Infra
Python 3: support is making progress and now can be beta tested. py3-ci CI branch, how to compile it and send feedback:
export PYTHON_VER=python3.6
make apps
Js testing headless
docs.gethue.com being refreshed
HUE-9023 [core] Logging HTTP requests code and size separately
Oozie: Coordinator sync action was pushed
Bugs
- The erratic behaviour of the horizontal result scrollbar in the SQL Editor has been fixed.
- LDAP sync command
- fix for the Dashboard layout issues
- HUE-8727 [frontend] Prevent chrome autofill in the assist documents
- HUE-8983 [fb] Handle s3 with ListAllMyBuckets denied
- Fix multi query statement with invalidate metadata
- Impala's GRANT & REVOKE syntax have been updated
- Now honoring the previous 'USE DB' statement in the SQL editor
- HUE-9051 [frontend] Fix issue with overridden setInterval in IE 11
Any feedback or question? Feel free to comment here or on the Forum and quick start SQL querying!
Onwards!