Hue 4.5 and its SQL improvements are out!

[Romain]

Initially published on http://gethue.com/hue-4-5-and-its-improvements-are-out/

Hi SQL Data Explorers,

The Hue Team is glad to thanks all the contributors and release Hue 4.5!

The focus of this release was to modularize the tech stack, improve SQL integrations and prepare major upcoming features.

This release comes with 660 commits and 150+ bug fixes! For all the changes, check out the release notes.

Go grab the tarball or source, and give it a spin! And for a quick try, ‘docker pull gethue/4.5.0‘ or open-up demo.gethue.com. If you have a Kubernetes cluster:

helm repo add gethue https: //helm .gethue.com
helm repo update
helm install gethue /hue

Download

Here is a list of the main improvements:

SQL

• Apache Atlas integration and Catalog API
• Hive LLAP + Service discovery
• Hive language reference is built-in
• HBase Phoenix querying example

Interface

• Left menu revamp
• Left assist panel aggregating storage (HDFS, ADLS, S3)
• Webpack integration

Documentation Revamp

• Building SQL Autocompletes
• Architecture
• SQL connectors refresh

Cloud

• Kubernetes Helm
• Docker
• Continuous Integration

Thank you to everybody using the product and who contributed to this release. Now off to the next one! (Python 3 support, Apache Knox integration & more SQL/Cloud features)

As usual thank you to all the project contributors and for sending feedback and participating on the Forum or @gethue!

Onwards!

Hue Team