Pig Releases

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29 October, 2009: release 0.5.0 available

This release makes Pig 0.4.0 functionality available for Hadoop 20 clusters. Release Notes are available at the download site

29 September, 2009: release 0.4.0 available

This release introduces two new types of join. The skewed join improves join performance for the data with large skew in the join key. The merge join improves performance for the case where both inputs are sorted on the join key. The release also includes support for outer join. Release Notes are available at the download site

25 June, 2009: release 0.3.0 available

The highlight of this release is multiquery optimization that allows to share computation accross multiple queries within a single Pig script. Release Notes are available at the download site

8 April, 2009: release 0.2.0 available

This release adds types to the language, better error checking, and a 5x performance gain over the 0.1.1 release. Release Notes are available at the download site

5 December, 2008: release 0.1.1 available

This is the first Pig release as Hadoop subproject! Release Notes are available at the download site

11 September, 2008: release 0.1.0 available

This is the first Pig release from the Incubator! Release Notes are available at the download site