The Apache Flink team is proud to announce the release of Apache Flink 0.8.0 This is the first release of Apache Flink as an Apache Top-Level Project Flink is building a system for distributed batch and real-time streaming data analysis that offers familiar collection-based programming APIs in Java and Scala. The Flink API is backed by a robust execution backend with true streaming capabilities, a custom memory manager, native iteration execution, and a cost-based optimizer. This release adds a Scala API and flexible window definitions to Flink Streaming, several performance and usability improvements, updates to the HBase module, and a lot more. See the blog post for more details on the 0.8.0 release: http://flink.apache.org/news/2015/01/21/release-0.8.html The release can be downloaded at: http://flink.apache.org/downloads.html We would like to thank all the contributors that made this release possible! Regards, The Apache Flink Team