Hue v2.3.0, released April 15th, 2013

Hue 2.3.0 is compatible with CDH4.2 (Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop 4.2).

Website: http://cloudera.github.com/hue

1. Notable Features

  • Pig App: new application for editing and running Pig scripts with UDF and parameters
  • Catalog App: new application for manage databases, viewing tables schemas and sample of content
  • Oozie Bundles are now supported
  • SQL highlighting and autocomplete for Hive / Impala apps
  • Multi query and selecting a portion of a query to run
  • Job Designer was totally restyled and now support all the Oozie actions
  • Oracle databases are now supported

2. Notable Fixes

  • HUE-1158 [jb] MR2 Incorrect logs shown
  • HUE-1146 [jb] Task attemps can’t be accessed in MR2
  • HUE-1156 [jb] MR2 Get all the logs
  • HUE-1141 [core] Home dashboard
  • HUE-880 [core] Hue works out of the box
  • HUE-966 [desktop] OAuthBackend and view for Oauth
  • HUE-1113 [core] Oracle support
  • HUE-1087 [beeswax] Pagination on /beeswax/list_designs page broken
  • HUE-1043 [oozie] Rerun a bundle

3. Compatibility

Hue 2.3.0 runs on CentOS versions 5 to 6, and Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.10.

Hue 2.3.0 is compatible with CDH4.2. Specifically:

  • File Browser depends on Hadoop 0.20 (for WebHDFS/HttpFS).
  • Beeswax is tested against Hive 0.10.0.
  • Job Designer depends on Oozie 3.3, using the Oozie web service API.

4. List of 128 Commits

  • 494ff7c HUE-1158 [jb] MR2 Incorrect logs shown
  • 0f7b30f HUE-1146 [jb] Task attemps can’t be accessed in MR2
  • e3921b7 HUE-1128 [pig] DB migration file
  • 84343f2 [jb] Task Attempt page fails to render
  • 3d6c013 [catalog] Fix create database tests
  • 557cfc1 HUE-1157 [jb] MR2 Container link broken
  • a72b2ae [oozie] Fix clone
  • b54c0cd [catalog] Fix databases page
  • f9a3089 HUE-75 [beeswax] "show partitions" forgets its table pane
  • da8963f HUE-1152 [oozie] Can’t select a file
  • 8788397 HUE-1156 [jb] MR2 Get all the logs
  • ab407ba [impala] Error deploying hue-impala due to dependence on thrift
  • 2932c6e HUE-1122 [oozie] Propagate configuration option is always checked in Sub workflow action
  • 4a4ab10 HUE-1031 [oozie] Encode generated XML in UTF-8
  • 28ecd0c [oozie] Fix test case and remove super user oozie submission.
  • c6de770 HUE-1160 [oozie] Import workflow doesn’t create link from start to end
  • 43806f0 [core] Unify examples installation
  • ba855c3 HUE-1103 [jobsub] Fix files
  • de29acf [jobsub] Fix checkboxes and add capture output
  • 0374347 [core] Various UX and UI polishing
  • d7c0815 HUE-1147 [pig] UpperText example
  • 338c4a6 HUE-1149 [core] Package httplib2
  • 8a320db [core] Fix config alert dock
  • 2041367 HUE-1103 [josub] Support files
  • 68b3e65 Fix bad import
  • 4cf4788 HUE-1141 [core] Home dashboard
  • 70e5aa7 [catalog] Database management in table browser
  • ae98d74 HUE-1117 [jobsub] Various js bugs
  • de8b53a HUE-1142 [beeswax] Support json paste on column names
  • da14733 [beeswax] Update tests with new re-installable examples
  • f69e2c6 HUE-880 [core] Hue works out of the box
  • 47d71af [core] Set version to 2.3
  • 6909f61 [shell] Mute non available shells
  • 2418050 [core] Update mini cluster dependencies
  • e3f7cc3 HUE-1126 [pig] Display logs of other running scripts and/or past run scripts
  • 7aa2479 HUE-1050 [useradmin] Create user wizard
  • ca5d66b HUE-1050 [useradmin] Create user wizard
  • 10754af HUE-1124 [pig] Improve running script log visualization
  • aeae2ac HUE-1050 [useradmin] Create user wizard
  • 248259f [oozie] Create workspace directory if needed
  • b20347e HUE-1130 [pig] UDF support
  • 745d60a HUE-1137 [core] Style drop area for FileUploader
  • 46e1871 HUE-1074 [impala] Infinite scroll on result page
  • c134c56 HUE-1129 [pig] Parameters support
  • ea8b714 HUE-1111 [beeswax] Save and edit the description of a query
  • 841fa9a HUE-1065 [core] ldaps support in Hue
  • 9f8f6e3 [core] Update readme about Pig and Catalog apps
  • 5fc66e2 HUE-1123 [pig] Update progress when job terminates
  • 9c2d407 HUE-1123 [pig] Introduce progress bar instead of textual percentage
  • 1b015a1 HUE-1063 [beeswax] SQL autocomplete and syntax highlighting
  • d74462f HUE-1125 [pig] Reduce the amount of ajax calls to the dashboard service
  • 8255a8a HUE-966 [desktop] OAuthBackend and view for Oauth
  • d381b14 HUE-1116 [catalog] Create a table from a file or loading data are broken
  • 966ead1 [beeswax] Document beeswax_running_query_lifetime
  • eda80af [beeswax] Fix autocomplete and restyle did you know
  • 509895e [shell] Sqoop 2 instead of Sqoop2 renaming
  • 4e07398 HUE-1099 [fb] Chown popup is not prefilled with the currents owners
  • 13847d8 [pig] Decouple view from API
  • 296c421 [pig] Various UX improvements
  • 392cb63 [pig] Reintroduced logs on the running script
  • d97c2ff [pig] Fix autocomplete
  • fff06f0 [pig] First round of beautification of the app
  • f78394f [pig] Initial commit
  • df7cca5 HUE-1119 [oozie] Workflow builder fork fails
  • 34a9756 HUE-1120 [oozie] Prevent errors on dashboard rendering
  • 1081ada HUE-919 [core] Create scroll to top jQuery plugin
  • f536121 HUE-941 [core] Fix compatibility problems with IE8+
  • f81f6b2 [oozie] Fix workflow streaming XML generation test
  • 0f5d66b HUE-1118 [catalog] Add breadcrums to table browser
  • 9cc7984 HUE-1073 [beeswax] Auto complete settings
  • 52cf2ce HUE-1100 [impala] Support refresh with both Beeswax and HS2 API
  • d556215 HUE-1115 [impala] Support multi db and use statement
  • 1d3a308 HUE-1107 [beeswax] Hive Server 2 kerberos support
  • 39f2f07 HUE-1113 [core] Oracle support
  • 8196725 HUE-1100 [impala] Support refresh
  • 51847e2 [catalog] Add locales information
  • 2d0cb7b [catalog] Create Table Browser App
  • 1f53916 HUE-1108 [beeswax] Hive Server 2 query properties and UDF support
  • bdaedab HUE-1110 [impala] Support Hive Server 2 API
  • ce7e3c2 HUE-1105 [oozie] Support archives in actions
  • 1568565 [beeswax] Fix for Beeswax after Hive Server 2 support
  • 1162e67 HUE-1075 [beeswax] Support Hive Server 2
  • bf86118 HUE-1102 [oozie] Cannot delete fields in action editor
  • 1f78202 HUE-1104 [oozie] Add capture output to Java action
  • 4ae3afe [oozie] Bundle kickoff date is optional
  • cace2a2 HUE-1106 [beeswax] Pagination on /beeswax/query_history page is broken
  • d79ee52 HUE-1056 [beeswax] Highlight and run a portion of a query
  • e377e6c [jb] Still display logs even if syslog is missing
  • 41e230b [core] Fix settings
  • 89218ae HUE-1094 [fb] Fail early when creating files in a folder without permissions
  • 77290a2 HUE-975 [filebrowser] Access to pagination buttons on large pages
  • 6d6d53e HUE-566 [beeswax] Need keyboard shortcut for executing a query in beeswax
  • b0851c2 HUE-1097 [beeswax] Decouple from Impala
  • 3fa47e5 HUE-1047 [core] Invalid form submission blocks next submission
  • fcf3c7f HUE-1095 [fb] Add "." to the directory listing
  • 21acdd0 HUE-1047 [core] Invalid form submission blocks next submission
  • a9c22cc HUE-1058 [beeswax] Resize query editor textarea in IE8 and IE9
  • ddfa3de [oozie] Fix subworkflow import test
  • 9033de2 HUE-1077 [jobsub] Add some examples
  • bbed14d [core] Hide configuration tabs application to non-superusers
  • 87cb7de HUE-1001 [oozie] Upload resource archive
  • d170972 HUE-1089 [beeswax] Loading data can show a 500 error
  • ef9ebeb HUE-1055 [jobsub] Support design properties
  • f03f970 HUE-1088 [impala] Kerberos support
  • d6301a4 HUE-538 [fb] Upload doesn’t work if / is not owned by hdfs
  • e67a1e0 HUE-1087 [beeswax] Pagination on /beeswax/list_designs page broken
  • 000d97f HUE-1086 [oozie] Coordinator submission should prefil variables from workflow properties
  • b95b881 HUE-956 [beeswax] Load data into a table should redirect to the table
  • d9ccf6b HUE-1085 [oozie] Invalid js escaping
  • e8e9369 HUE-1082 [useradmin] Ldap Sync Users fails
  • b97c8c7 HUE-1054 [jobsub] Polishing jobsub application
  • 4886b79 HUE-1074 [impala] Result view not showing all the results
  • 4eeb114 HUE-962 [useradmin] Improve AllowAllBackend experience
  • 8968d22 HUE-1070 [oozie] Display all job URLs spawned by Pig
  • c7900e0 HUE-1068 [oozie] Java action should support capture output
  • 60173e1 HUE-1064 [core] JT plugin should support hadoop.rpc.protection set to anything other than "authentication"
  • 813a0f6 [oozie] Regroup Oozie instrumentation tests with submission ones
  • 3d4c3c5 HUE-910 [oozie] Add labels to Oozie instrumentation timers
  • 356f85b HUE-1043 [oozie] Rerun a bundle
  • fa0fa4b Revert "HUE-1061 [useradmin] Edit group name"
  • b3c118b [desktop] Change comments describing LDAPS config
  • 0efebd4 HUE-1061 [useradmin] Edit group name
  • 3bdc408 HUE-1062 [fb] Increase chunk size during download
  • 841c7fe HUE-1045 [beeswax] Use kerberos instance as host in hive site
  • fa4c985 HUE-1045 [beeswax] Beeswax host selection sasl
  • 6ca40cd HUE-910 [oozie] Display all actions in workflow editor and dashboard
  • cdd1be9 HUE-1059 [oozie] Display Coordinators start time
  • 5ef487d HUE-1059 [oozie] Display all Oozie web UI information

5. Contributors

This Hue release is made possible thanks to the contribution from:

  • Aaron Newton
  • Aaron T. Myers
  • Abraham Elmahrek
  • Aditya Acharya
  • Alex Newman
  • Andrew Bayer
  • Andrew Yao
  • Ann McCown
  • bc Wong
  • Ben Bishop
  • Bruce Mitchener
  • Bruno Mahé
  • Eli Collins
  • Enrico Berti
  • Eric Wong
  • Harsh J
  • Henry Robinson
  • Jon Natkins
  • Lars Francke
  • Loren Siebert
  • Marcus McLaughlin
  • Mike Cotton
  • Paul Battaglia
  • Philip Zeyliger
  • Romain Rigaux
  • Roman Shaposhnik
  • Shawn Van Ittersum
  • Shrijeet Paliwal
  • Thomas Aylott
  • Todd Lipcon
  • Vinithra Varadharajan