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