Hi Big Data Munchers,
The Hue Team is glad to release Hue 3.8 and its improved Oozie Editor and better performances!
A new Spark REST Job Server with a Notebook UI are also appearing in a Beta version for all the eager Spark developers that would like to give it a try.
A tarball is available as well as documentation and release notes. This release is a big step forwards and comes with more than 1000 commits!
Note
If you built custom apps, follow the upgrade guide!
Here is a summary of the main improvements (got on the 3.8 blog for more details):
Oozie
New Editor (edit mode)
Editor
- New look and less knowledge of Oozie required
- Importing / exporting workflows is easier
- Workflows supports tens of new functionalities
- Support of the new HiveServer2 and Spark Action
- Coordinator user experience is simpler
Dashboard
- Easy way to differentiate workflows submitted manually or by coordinators
- Sub-workflow links to corresponding workflows and logs
- Update end time of coordinator
- Hive jobs ids are visible
See more details about the Editor and Dashboard.
Stability/performance
- Hue HA
- Static files caching and running with NGINX
- Hive 1.1 support
- Major upgrade of Django 1.6
- Run with Apache Server
- Fixed a number of deadlocks
- Fixed some non-standard Oracle DB issues
Search
- Regular users can now also create dashboards
- Range & Up facet
- 2D maps
- Collection aliases querying
- Multiple widgets using the same fields
- Enable only the Search app
- Export and import dashboard
More detailed information here…
Spark Notebook (beta)
- New REST Spark Job Server (beta)
- Notebook Web UI (beta)
- Scala, Java, Python
- YARN cluster
Security
- Sensitive data redaction in logs and SQL editors (PCI)
- HTTPS/SSL configuration
- Use Impala/Hive with LDAP authentication and SSL
- HCatalog with Pig Editor and security
- SAML 2.0 support
- LDAP Debugging
- Add a customized top banner
HBase
New ways to install Hue
Conferences
It was a pleasure to present at Lucene Solr Revolution in Washington DC and Big Data Spain in Madrid.
Next!
Next release (3.9) will mostly focus on Spark & Search and bring general improvements/feature completeness in all the apps.
In parallel, the design & development of Hue 4 is kicking in with the goal of becoming the equivalent of “Excel for Big Data”. A fresh new look, a unification of all the apps, wizards for ingesting data… will let you use the full platform in a single UI for fast Big Data querying and prototyping!
Onwards!!
As usual feel free to contribute to the project and participate on the hue-user list or @gethue!