The Pig 0.8 release includes a large number of bug fixes and optimizations, but at the core it is a feature release. It’s been in the works for almost a full year (most of the work on 0.7 was completed by January of 2009, although it took a while to actually get the release out), and the amount of time spent on 0.8 really shows. I meant to describe these in detail in a series of posts, but it seem