Hi all,

The Hama team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Hama 0.4-incubating under the Apache Incubator.

Hama is a pure BSP(Bulk Synchronous Parallel) computing framework on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) for massive scientific computations such as matrix, graph and network algorithms.

This release includes:

* Multiple tasks per node
* Input/Output Formatter
* Stabilized Barrier Synchronization
* Message Combiners
* Improved examples
* and its Benchmark test results

Thanks to the Hama and Apache Incubating community for helping grow the project!