Hue 4.12 with a new Storage Browser, Trino support and a new platform is out!

Hi Data Explorers,

Hue 4.12 is out! It is the first release since January 2023, with more than 900 commits from 36 contributors.

Note: Hue 4.12 requires Python 3.11 and is built on Django 5.2. Read the upgrade notes before you upgrade from 4.11.

Summary

A new Storage Browser

The Storage Browser is rewritten as a React application. It works with HDFS, S3, ABFS, Google Storage and Apache Ozone:

• Browse, search and sort, with breadcrumbs and a path browser.
• View, preview and edit files, rename, copy, move and delete them, change the owner and permissions, compress and extract archives.
• Upload files by drag and drop. Uploads keep running in a queue while you navigate, and large files are sent in chunks.

Enable it with enable_new_storage_browser=true in the [desktop] section of the hue.ini. Learn more in Browsing data.

Trino, Flink SQL and Kyuubi

• The Trino connector is overhauled: catalog browsing, autocomplete, explain, multiple statements, HTTPS basic authentication, ssl_verify and trino_user options. See Integrating the Trino editor in Hue and the connector documentation.
• The Apache Flink connector now uses the Flink SQL Gateway.
• Apache Kyuubi is available to query Spark SQL.

More storage options

• Apache Ozone and Google Cloud Storage in the file browsers.
• S3 is rebuilt on boto3 and supports S3-compatible object stores such as MinIO, Dell ECS and NetApp through the new [[storage_connectors]] configuration.

A documented public API

The public API is versioned under /api/v1/, with a Swagger UI at /api/swagger. It covers the storage operations, the logs, the configuration check and more. See the REST API documentation.

Editor, Job Browser and administration

• Autocomplete for CTEs, a default_interpreter option and floating-point results that keep their precision.
• An optional Celery task server for chunked uploads, an integrated Gunicorn log listener, TLS 1.3, IPv6 and SAML local logout.
• Admin pages (configuration, server logs and metrics) rewritten in React.

A new platform and a security hardening round

• Python 3.11, Django 5.2, Gunicorn 23 and Node.js 22.
• CVE fixes in the backend and frontend dependencies, stricter permissions on the configuration APIs, fixes for the local file access of the importers, Content Security Policy support and non-persistent session cookies.

Hue 4.12 has more than 900 commits. For a complete list, see the release notes.

Go grab it and give it a spin!

• Docker

  docker run -it -p 8888:8888 gethue/hue:4.12.0
  

• Kubernetes :

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

• Tarball or source

Any feedback or question? Feel free to comment here or on the Forum and quick start SQL querying!

Onwards!

Harsh from the Hue Team