The HCatalog team is happy to announce the release of HCatalog 0.2.0 HCatalog is a metadata-backed storage abstraction for Hadoop, which allows for data-cross-compatibility across tools likePig, Hive, and other MapReduce programs that use it. More details about HCatalog can be found at http:// incubator.apache.org/hcatalog.
The details of the release can be found at http://incubator.apache.org/hcatalog/releases.html -HCatalog Team