We are happy to announce that version 0.2 of the Stratosphere System has been released. It has a lot of performance improvements as well as a bunch of exciting new features like:

• The new Sopremo Algebra Layer and the Meteor Scripting Language
• The whole new tuple data model for the PACT API
• Fault tolerance through local checkpoints
• A ton of performance improvements on all layers
• Support for plug-ins on the data flow channel layer
• Many new library classes (for example new Input-/Output-Formats)

For a complete list of new features, check out the change log.