the Analytics team has packaged a new version of Hue (basically the latest upstream), 4.7.1, available for testing in https://hue-next.wikimedia.org

Several improvements:

- Python 3 support

- CAS SSO support

- User auto-creation upon first login (no more sync from LDAP etc..)

Current problems:

- We had to follow up with several patches to upstream (https://github.com/cloudera/hue) due to py2->py3 porting issues, plus also JS ones.

- The UI look and feel is very different from what we are used to, and some viz bugs are still present (see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264896)

The plan is to move hue.wikimedia.org to the new version as soon as possible, and then fix bugs that are outstanding as we go. With this upgrade we don't want to state that Hue will be supported forever (on the contrary, we'd still love to deprecate it), but for the time being (namely until we find a replacement for Oozie for example) Hue will remain supported.

Any feedback about bugs etc.. would be really appreciated in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264896. Also let us know what you think about the new version (if you use Hue often).

Thanks in advance,

Luca