Hue 3.9.0-1510 Release Notes

The following notes relate specifically to the data-fabric distribution for Apache Hadoop. You may also be interested in the Cloudera Hue changelog or the Cloudera Hue homepage.

Version 3.9.0
Release Date November 20, 2015
Data Fabric Version Interoperability

See Hue Support Matrix.
Source on GitHub

https://github.com/mapr/hue/tree/3.9.0-mapr-1510
Maven Artifacts

https://repository.mapr.com/maven/
Package Names

The following packages are associated with this release:

  • mapr-hue-3.9.0.201511191616-1.noarch.rpm
  • mapr-hue_3.9.0.201511191616_all.deb
  • mapr-hue-base-3.9.0.201511191616-1.noarch.rpm
  • mapr-hue-base_3.9.0.201511191616_all.deb
  • mapr-hue-livy-3.9.0.201511191616-1.noarch.rpm
  • mapr-hue-livy_3.9.0.201511191616_all.deb

Important Notes

  • Data Fabric does not support integration between Hue 3.9.0 and the following components: Sentry, Solr Search, and Zookeeper.
  • Spark is available as a beta feature. R with Spark 1.3.1 and 1.4.1 is not supported.
  • Hive SQL example only works with Hive 1.2 and Oozie 4.2.0.

Fixes

GitHub Commit Date (YYYY-MM-DD) Comment
5a7c872 2015-10-20 MAPR-21019: When Hue submits Oozie jobs, Hue uses the default_jobtracker_host value (maprfs:/// ) instead of the jobtracker host:port address.
5f7812d 2015-09-15 MAPR-20441: Hue now automatically detects the Sqoop security settings and Hue.ini no longer contains the sqoop_conf_dir property.
569dbf5 2015-09-15 MAPR-20438: Hue is now able to connect to the ResourceManager on secure cluster because the path to ssl_cacerts in the hue.ini was corrected.
6fd0484 2015-09-07 MAPR-20357: Job browser is now able to display jobs when the cluster runs in classic mode.
ecdd711 2015-09-07 MAPR-20440: Hue now automatically detects the Hive security mechanism and therefore hive action statements in Oozie workflows no longer fail.

Known Issues

  • HUE-2673: Hue displays a timeout error when a new session is not started within 60 seconds due to the lack of YARN resources.
  • MapR-20358: Hive job from Job Designer examples fails on YARN mode without oozie patch for 2015-10-23.
  • MapR-18668: Hue does not work on RedHat/CentOS 7 when it is configured to use a MySQL database.

    When this issue occurs, the Control System displays the "Hue Down Alarm."

    Workaround:
    1. Run the following commands to install MariaDB and the Redhat 6 compatibility library:
      yum install mariadb
      rpm -ivh --nodeps http://yum.mariadb.org/$(rpm -qa mariadb|cut -d-
        -f2)/rhel7-amd64/rpms/MariaDB-5.5.41-centos7_0-x86_64-compat.rpm
    2. Run the following command to create a symlink for the Cyrus SASL library:
      ln -s /lib64/libsasl2.so.3.0.0 /lib64/libsasl2.so.2
    3. Run the following command to reconfigure Hue:
      bash -c "./opt/mapr/hue/hue-3.9.0/build/env/bin/activate; /opt/mapr/hue/hue-3.9.0/build/env/bin/hue
      syncdb --noinput; /opt/mapr/hue/hue-3.9.0/build/env/bin/hue migrate"
    4. Run the following command to restart Hue:
      maprcli node services -name hue -action restart -nodes <space separated list of
      hostnames>