Hue v2.4.0, released June 12th, 2013

Hue 2.4.0 is compatible with CDH4.3 (Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop 4.3).

Website: http://gethue.com

1. Notable Features

  • Search app: Integrate with Solr, Solr Cloud and Cloudera Search and customize search results and facets

2. Notable Fixes

  • HUE-1267 [oozie] Import action from josub or a workflow
  • HUE-1304 [oozie] More accurate workflow progress reporting
  • HUE-1303 [metastore] Create a new table wizard uses CTRL+A
  • HUE-1296 [impala] Support parameterized queries
  • HUE-1255 [beeswax] Fix show all the queries history toggling
  • [impala] Update hue.ini to point to HiveServer2 interface
  • [catalog] Rename Table Browser application to Metastore Manager

3. Compatibility

Hue 2.4.0 runs on CentOS versions 5 to 6, and Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.10.

Hue 2.4.0 is compatible with CDH4.3. 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 291 Commits

  • d0612ba [search] Update hue.ini
  • c8dcce1 HUE-1313 [core] Unicode error in check_config
  • b596a81 HUE-1174 [impala] config check for Impala
  • c9d6e6b [core] Install all examples button
  • 327f8a9 HUE-1312 [search] Sort dropdown has no impact
  • be580df HUE-1310 [core] External js reference triggering security alerts
  • 96d147b HUE-1250 [oozie] Add a bundle example
  • 522d37a [search] Add initial tests
  • 79e2258 HUE-1173 [beeswax] Config check for Hive
  • b8be825 [metastore] Move navigation bar from beeswax
  • 100843e HUE-1213 [jobsub] Remove old examples
  • 476f2bf HUE-1182 Handle ldapsearch comments appropriately
  • ca2386a HUE-1267 [oozie] Import action from josub or a workflow
  • f5d6aa6 [search] Changed app icon
  • b6e6263 [core] Set version to 2.4
  • fa7db28 HUE-1304 [oozie] More accurate workflow progress reporting
  • c4d3023 HUE-1303 [metastore] Create a new table wizard uses CTRL+A
  • 1422564 [oozie] Fix smoke test
  • 0dcafaa [search] Adding link on home page
  • a1a0431 [search] Fixed strip html functionality in case of no functions
  • 65a5284 [search] Template manager now strips html from inside functions
  • 2a8d808 [search] Indent all lines on source code
  • 75cc0db [search] Add front end dependencies to search app
  • b50c366 [search] Support single core facets and sorting
  • 1cd8949 [search] Fix search collection link from editor
  • f768079 [search] Default template list all the fields
  • 6b504f9 [search] Improve look of Collection properties page
  • 033f27b [search] Edit collection link not pointing to the correct collection
  • edfd4a2 [search] Fixed problem with functions that could have the same name as fields
  • 9cd72d1 [search] Removed autocomplete and prevented django error for search on non-existing collection
  • ea4b104 [search] Make date functions smarter
  • 4309dcd [search] Removed edit link from collection manager page
  • db1dc02 [search] Removed query parameters on collection change
  • 94c4157 [search] Fixed copy bug on public search page
  • 4fa97d3 [search] Fixed plus button on snippet editor
  • 8620f3e [search] Adding fromnow function in editor
  • c25f8db [search] Improved loading UX of collection manager
  • c3c67f3 [search] Collection or Core properties tab are compatible
  • 6698fe6 [search] Deep copy of collection
  • e4e87d0 [search] Removed debug info
  • 970b2b5 [search] Improved labels and schema loading
  • 8497cb0 [search] Search should use collection name and not id
  • 1cbb29e [search] Cookie should save the id and not the name of the last collection
  • 7bf550c [search] Use collection id instead of name
  • 5212bcf [search] Added copy and delete functionalities
  • 12db9f4 [search] Made result page larger
  • da0b3da [search] Empty query matches all the fields
  • 4138fb1 [search] Support Solr server with just simple core
  • 821ff73 [search] Fixed collections filter and changed title layout
  • b668ced [search] Unified import and list collection page
  • 422db36 [search] Added no collections page for normal users
  • 7361ee4 [search] Duplicate jquery.selector.js because of packaging issues
  • b2fb177 [search] Support collections or just core
  • 2789674 [search] Improve admin layout and fix 500 error on properties tab
  • 9a11973 [search] Show collection properties instead of core properties
  • f958bc2 [search] Rename login-spinner URLs to spinner
  • 9bae5fa [search] Fix typo in add a new collection wizard
  • 9c2ea71 [search] Updating default port of Solr
  • 470e328 [search] Code mirror dependency fix
  • bd46843 [search] Fixing collection renaming
  • 1e395fa [search] Support collections part 1
  • d722b97 [search] Preparation for JSON queries
  • b354dfa [search] Several improvements
  • a804769 [search] Remember the previously selected collection
  • d6d1c0c [search] Allow and render fields with dots in their name in the result template
  • 2c79623 [search] Wrong collection name used when searching
  • 551cfe9 [search] Also display default facets
  • 5672a53 [search] Introduced fromnow function in templates
  • 0c6d559 [search] "sort by" dropdown is broken
  • 0523901 [search] Next page button is broken is not collection selected
  • 3d97636 [search] Support facets with spaces
  • 928e7ff [search] sort should not appear in query if empty
  • 8c3e500 [search] Use link icon instead of twitter
  • 55a2db2 [search] Make sort optional
  • 76f9750 [search] restored Twitter images
  • 94999ae [search] Support for labels and ordering of facets on public search UI
  • d99c395 [search] Move from /browse to /select handler
  • 83cb807 [search] Fixed range facet links on search result page
  • 92e1a33 [search] Updated admin template view
  • ebd1ddb [search] Fixed preview bug on Admin that occurred when using the date function
  • b130712 [search] Fixed admin highlighting functionality and improved date facets ordering
  • f4a4b63 [search] Persist facets order
  • 5f00faa [search] Auto enable facets and show or hide save button accordingly
  • 720538a [search] Improve default twitter template
  • bee4b29 [search] Add schema and properties tabs to core configuration
  • b574284 [search] Custom code for the snippets
  • b4935af [search] Fixed facets display
  • a1f0a40 [search] Labels and sortable facets
  • 00e90f1 [search] Added remove icon on search field
  • 142abe4 [search] Converted selects to Chosen on snippet editor
  • 05f6401 [search] Insert layout tool in the snipper editor
  • fc257b6 [search] New Date range facet format
  • f497174 [search] Date range facets support
  • 596df91 [search] Improved snippet editor UX
  • aa544e1 [search] added generic functions to the templates
  • 2345524 [search] Dynamic dropdown elements based on the already selected ones
  • b04b1c7 [search] Add Wizard for facets edition
  • eb188d8 [search] Fixed field add to the template
  • 49a4466 [search] Add file visualization in browser window
  • cc16f98 [search] Disable/enable facets or sorting
  • 197d719 [search] Set range facet as day
  • 29e5087 [search] Customize hightlighting
  • c4343d0 [search] Add sorting customization
  • a8403fe [search] Add enable/disable Facets option
  • fa89204 [search] Small improvements
  • 68eb15c [search] Restyle of highlighting admin section
  • 6eae65a Improve cursor available fields.
  • 880ccee [search] Autocomplete
  • e2814ed Make available fields cursor aware and buttons.
  • 59c7909 [search] Results highlighting
  • 728472e [search] Simplify the UI and first UX
  • d546d63 [search] Added core switch on Admin UI
  • c4960a9 [search] Public Search UI restyle
  • a42e946 [search] Display result template with mustache
  • 93edc4c [search] Save and load sorting properties
  • e34ec0e [search] Support saving and loading of template
  • 470eb32 [search] Build all facets query
  • 139a139 [search] Admin UI
  • 81cd0ac [search] Admin UI
  • 1d2b022 [search] Generic collections and customizable UI skeleton
  • 5d91f99 [search] Rebase on 2.2
  • 8a78603 [search] Fixing Solr url and Python2.4 compatibility
  • a2e2f06 [search] Fixing UTC time and default sort`
  • ad4bbab [search] Multi facet filtering
  • abca687 [search] Polishing Twitter UI
  • fa75e97 [search] Twitter results layout
  • fe22573 [search] Adding some facets
  • 9fe0e2e [search] Adding first version of template
  • bac447f [search] Initial commit
  • aca5696 HUE-1307 [metastore] Browsing partition fails
  • 5a1ce35 HUE-1306 [core] Introspect to skip previous alter field statements
  • ab11f7b Revert "HUE-1064 [core] JT plugin should support hadoop.rpc.protection set to anything other than "authentication""
  • 7af1582 Revert "HUE-1188 [beeswax] Support hadoop.rpc.protection set to anything other than "authentication""
  • 569602e HUE-1296 [impala] Mock Impalad in the test cases
  • 79803ad HUE-1296 [impala] Support parameterized queries
  • f956e85 HUE-1297 [beeswax] Support other databases than default for parameterized queries
  • 74edf8e HUE-1305 [oozie] Support Coordinator throttling option
  • 0ee833f HUE-1301 [jobsub] Create or touch a file in FS action
  • fe1b77f HUE-1300 [oozie] Support LAST_ONLY executuion in coordinators
  • 5b06b1e HUE-1294 [jobsub] 2.x to 2.3 upgrade broken
  • 71403ff HUE-1274 [pig] Correct autocomplete keyword suggestions (uppercase, lowercase, camel-case)
  • 995354c HUE-1276 [metastore] Load data popup button should be disable if no file is selected
  • a9898b4 HUE-1288 [core] Implement proper support for SASL QOP in Hue’s Thrift SASL library
  • 55844c1 HUE-1238 [jobsub] Select path
  • 4828558 HUE-1171 [useradmin] Error message when adding an LDAP user is wrong
  • 4b88f37 [help] Update of the internal help
  • 4498724 HUE-1277 [impala] Install queries example fix
  • baf7a8a HUE-1278 [beeswax] HiveServer2 backend should not require a kerberos principal
  • 00a2de3 [beeswax] HS2 principal should come from hive-site.xml
  • cd8064f HUE-1270 [core] Delete file should defaut to trash
  • 0ace6e3 Config align fix
  • 0fcf37a HUE-1133 [pig] Unsaved ribbon
  • 0b9e6e1 [core] Missing sections from hue.ini
  • 9dc0862 [impala] Impala error message refer to below tab instead of above
  • 47cbed9 [shell] Remove default setup of Flume OG
  • 6ccb8f2 [impala] Backward compatibility by using HS2 port if no interface is specified
  • ca13226 Fix test cases for HUE-1268
  • da053b3 HUE-1263 [oozie] Workflow with subworkflow action can’t be saved
  • c9d41f0 [oozie] Create hue workspace automatically if does not exist
  • 0f06888 HUE-1263 [oozie] Workflow with subworkflow action can’t be saved
  • d661f7b HUE-1264 [pig] Saved pig scripts should prompt for parameters
  • 65a0bdd HUE-1193 [beeswax] Add filter for Saved Queries, History, and Tables
  • cf62f38 HUE-1261 [beeswax] Query explain renders query Execute button useless after a page back
  • 2e0b663 HUE-1262 [help] Subnav menu breaks in two lines on standard resolution screens
  • bf5a90b HUE-1243 [core] Upgrade to Fontawesome 3.1.1
  • b560161 HUE-1259 [oozie] The name of the modification column should be consistent in part of speech and capitalization
  • d40fd69 HUE-1260 [core] The control used to filter lists should have consistent label and info text
  • 820fb0c HUE-1245 [pig] Keyboard shortcut for executing script
  • 2a5788a [beeswax] Make Thrift port easier to pick according to the type of interface used
  • ac2534e HUE-1197 [beeswax] Support explain with hive server 2
  • 12c9541 HUE-1257 [beeswax] Supervisor should not start beeswaxd when using HS2 interface
  • d51b41f HUE-1247 [core] Modal submission with enter key
  • 2fd2ea2 HUE-1252 [core] Correct alignment of toolbar buttons across Hue
  • 91d1276 [core] Trigger HA logic only when more than one MR1 cluster
  • c3ad0e8 HUE-1255 [beeswax] Fix show all the queries history toggling
  • afa9570 [beeswax] CleanableSessionState doesn’t have a default constructor
  • 4818137 [impala] Update hue.ini to point to HiveServer2 interface
  • b9bb98d HUE-1251 [pig] Copy feature doesn’t list the new copy of the file until page refresh
  • bc9067a HUE-1167 [impala] Query server address depend on the type of the query
  • 2f19ae0 HUE-1249 [core] web page title should include app name
  • 232359e [fb] Add View trash tooltip
  • 54cbd83 [jobbrowser] Fix tracker page with MR1
  • 35af9d3 HUE-1248 [core] Incorrect message in About Hue screen
  • 882e302 [core] Fix symlink in package for hadoop examples
  • 34c06a8 [core] Fix HADOOP_BIN for Hive tests
  • 911b19c [impala] Refresh Thrift service
  • 8e0b9f8 Cleanup Hadoop directory appropriately
  • a664157 [useradmin] Prevent change of username
  • 8544272 Fix smoke tests
  • 1745fd2 Should only try to remove PTH link if it already exists.
  • 88b0eb5 [core] Use MR in hadoop tarball
  • f32f477 [core] relative path for pth symlink.
  • c415033 [core] Round of localization
  • db2e9f2 Make app registry location configurable
  • 663680a HUE-1234 [jobsub] Refresh when creating a new node broken
  • 5efec71 HUE-1237 [jobsub] FS example broken
  • 8a64a06 HUE-1236 [jobsub] Clicking edit and then Home leads to the edit button being unclickable
  • 8fe78f8 HUE-1211 [impala] Cancel a query
  • 20a7933 [pig] Avoid test hanging
  • 8e0aae2 HUE-1229 [oozie] Move file in Fs action is broken in firefox
  • 3a48e4b [beeswax] Fix history page test
  • 58fb7d7 Increase max recursion depth in oozie workflow builder front end
  • 53bd036 [oozie] Skip global configuration in 0.4 workflow definition when importing
  • d47ac9c [pig] Example not showing up
  • cdc13b3 [hadoop] Remove old test jars
  • 5ad920e [impala] Install queries and table samples
  • 788c039 [pig] Show progress of running scripts on dashboards
  • 8827db5 [pig] Show real script name when running from Script List
  • 94fa4cf [pig] Show progress of running scripts on dashboards
  • 5ba7601 HUE-1224 [impala] Autocomplete broken
  • f8c87c3 HUE-1223 [core] Filechooser opens on bad default path
  • 2bec2f6 [core] Lower the configured minimum block size value for the tests
  • 3b1c3ee [beeswax] Support for _HOST in kerberos principal
  • a34b3b2 HUE-1221 [pig] Load back an executed script
  • d8c82ee HUE-1221 [pig] Load back an executed script
  • 3345c80 HUE-1190 [core] Consistent renaming
  • 3adcf7e HUE-1190 [core] Changed trackPageview logic
  • a9a6f78 HUE-1190 [core] Usage statistics
  • 50e7722 HUE-1221 [pig] Load back an executed script
  • 3bd414f HUE-1222 [core] Update favicon to match the new logo
  • 3988246 Fix tests on master
  • 964ee57 HUE-1202 [oozie] Ascii error on oozie coordinator page
  • 26bb197 HUE-1175 [pig] Show parameter popup in case of parameters presence
  • c07bf39 [core] JT plugin HA
  • 89e732a [impala] Progress log support
  • 09a34b9 [metastore] Rename catalog app to metastore app
  • 94bb710 HUE-1206 [beeswax] Table aliasing autocomplete
  • 94e2231 HUE-1218 [pig] Autocomplete aliases
  • b9a41d0 HUE-1212 [fb] Incorrect trash used
  • 1ee35c0 HUE-1218 [pig] Autocomplete aliases
  • 85e5a16 HUE-1220 [core] Case in multi-word field labels and buttons should be consistent
  • 59c5e6c HUE-1217 [jobsub] App breaks on IE8
  • 73a6738 [pig] Avoid 500 error when polling logs for the first time
  • fac5445 [core] Rename oozie share lib for continuous integration
  • 0e40cd8 [catalog] Rename Table Browser application to Metastore Manager
  • 35675e4 HUE-1215 [pig] Log window should occupy all the available space
  • 42cb61f HUE-1216 [jobsub] File dialogs consistency
  • 82489f2 HUE-1198 [core] Change Hue Logo
  • a886f0d HUE-1205 [beeswax] Improve look of "empty" description in Saved query
  • 121070a HUE-1208 [core] Add safety check to ensure the right JDK is being used
  • 1e642ba HUE-1209 [pig] Show execution progress
  • a45961f HUE-1208 [core] Java components should have the option of compiling in JDK1.7
  • 6dbc609 HUE-1155 [catalog] Vertical column layout in create table
  • 577c931 HUE-1161 [oozie] Suspend a job directly from the dashboard lists
  • f286941 HUE-1195 [beeswax] "Go to column" popup prevents ability to select&copy values from results
  • adedc25 HUE-1203 [impala] Autocomplete in Impala Query UI should not offer invalid language elements
  • 71d5d82 HUE-1204 [beeswax] autocomplete delivers obscure error when completing "From"
  • b1ec46b HUE-1207 [fb] Avoid action bar to split buttons in two rows
  • 95d2e01 [beeswax] List of small UI harmonization changes
  • 8fa519b [core] Fix date format of localized files
  • 1189b48 [core] First drop of localization update
  • ec65862 [pig] Adding config check explicting that Oozie is required
  • da58907 [jb] Fix page crash when stdout is empty
  • 5fb5c1f HUE-1200 [core] Use the same labels and icons for Clone/Copy
  • 2f0aa26 HUE-1201 [about] Last step of Quick Start shouldn’t depend on how you get there
  • a8ba24f [core] Rename Pig to Pig Editor in admin wizard
  • 6bc225b Fix LDAP test cases
  • c19deab [liboozie] Update config checks
  • fac9e5a HUE-1145 [core] Cleanup icons and images that are not used anymore
  • 4c5d271 HUE-1175 [pig] No submission confirmation popup if parameters list is empty
  • 69dcc5e HUE-1199 [useradmin] Hue LDAP import fails when using non-standard characters
  • 240d4dc HUE-1140 HUE File Browser - UTC Time
  • 8dbc7ba HUE-1139 [pig] Autocomplete HDFS paths
  • c1579d8 [impala] Show impalad server_host in the dump config
  • dffc422 HUE-1189 [beeswax] Lazily build autocomplete tree
  • ba301aa HUE-1185 Fix test cases
  • 3bbb9ec HUE-1185 [jobsub] Trash for designs
  • 1e56aa5 HUE-1183 [useradmin] Hue assumes that the base_dn string is case sensitive.
  • 28f84b5 HUE-1185 [jobsub] Trash for designs
  • fb30185 HUE-1189 [beeswax] Lazily build autocomplete tree
  • 710e8e2 HUE-1189 [beeswax] Lazily build autocomplete tree
  • c3b8d31 HUE-1167 [impala] Decoupled backend interface from Beeswax
  • cfdf020 HUE-1168 [shell] Race condition when merging token files
  • 81c05ca [beeswax] Add autocomplete in query with parameter views
  • 4a613f1 [beeswax] Fix mock db after table autocomplete change
  • 587a7c3 HUE-1187 [beeswax] Trash for queries
  • 0da9f01 HUE-1189 [beeswax] Autocomplete failure should not 500 the page
  • 2ead5f9 HUE-1138 [beeswax] Autocomplete table and fields
  • 3b7f2e5 Fix new test cases for oozie trash functionality
  • d17cb15 HUE-1186 [oozie] Trash for designs
  • 32fc52a [core] Remove Static Group Mapping lib
  • 681e80b [pig] Rename app to Pig Editor
  • f13ef3b HUE-1188 [beeswax] Support hadoop.rpc.protection set to anything other than "authentication"
  • 88d1d2c HUE-75 [beeswax] HS2 support for partitions
  • 156d7a7 HUE-1100 [impala] Add gen-py files
  • 9b765e9 [beeswax] Start over support for Hive Server 2
  • e8928f3 HUE-1184 [oozie] Merge kill nodes into single kill node
  • 3c281a9 Fix tests for pig and beeswax
  • f93f8e7 [beeswax] Use first URI of multiple hive.metastore.uris values
  • 3d02d48 HUE-1132 [pig] Stop button

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