The first release of Apache Arrow is out. Apache Arrow 0.1.0 is an early release and the APIs are still evolving. The metadata and physical data representation should be fairly stable as we have spent time finalizing the details.
The source release can be found at https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/arrow/ The source is tagged apache-arrow-0.1.0 and can be found at https://github.com/apache/arrow/releases/tag/apache-arrow-0.1.0 The java artifact are on maven central: http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cg%3A%22org.apache.arrow%22%20AND%20v%3A%220.1.0%22 -- Julien