The Pig team is happy to announce the Pig 0.12.0 release. Apache Pig provides a high-level data-flow language and execution framework for parallel computation on Hadoop clusters. More details about Pig can be found at http://pig.apache.org/.
The highlights of this release are ASSERT operator, Streaming UDF, new AvroStorage, IN/CASE operator, BigInteger/BigDecimal data type, support for Windows. The details of the release can be found at http://pig.apache.org/releases.html. Note there are backward incompatible changes and known issues in this release. Please check https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/PIG/Pig+0.12+Backward+Compatibilityand https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/PIG/Pig+0.12.0+Known+Issues for details. Thanks, Daniel -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any printing, copying, dissemination, distribution, disclosure or forwarding of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete it from your system. Thank You.
