diff --git a/asterix-algebra/pom.xml b/asterix-algebra/pom.xml
index 2a5874b..c331f94 100644
--- a/asterix-algebra/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-algebra/pom.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<artifactId>asterix</artifactId>
 		<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
-		<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.8.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>asterix-algebra</artifactId>
 
@@ -91,25 +91,25 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 			<artifactId>asterix-runtime</artifactId>
-			<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>0.8.0</version>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 			<artifactId>asterix-aql</artifactId>
-			<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>0.8.0</version>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 			<artifactId>asterix-metadata</artifactId>
-			<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>0.8.0</version>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
                 <dependency>
                         <groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
                         <artifactId>asterix-transactions</artifactId>
-                        <version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+                        <version>0.8.0</version>
                         <scope>compile</scope>
                 </dependency>
 		<dependency>
diff --git a/asterix-app/pom.xml b/asterix-app/pom.xml
index 9cf1788..399ec4f 100644
--- a/asterix-app/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-app/pom.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<artifactId>asterix</artifactId>
 		<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
-		<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.8.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>asterix-app</artifactId>
 
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 			<artifactId>asterix-algebra</artifactId>
-			<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>0.8.0</version>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
@@ -155,49 +155,49 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 			<artifactId>asterix-aql</artifactId>
-			<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>0.8.0</version>
 			<type>jar</type>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 			<artifactId>asterix-om</artifactId>
-			<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>0.8.0</version>
 			<type>jar</type>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 			<artifactId>asterix-metadata</artifactId>
-			<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>0.8.0</version>
 			<type>jar</type>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 			<artifactId>asterix-tools</artifactId>
-			<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>0.8.0</version>
 			<type>jar</type>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 			<artifactId>asterix-common</artifactId>
-			<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>0.8.0</version>
 			<type>jar</type>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
                 <dependency>
                         <groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
                         <artifactId>asterix-common</artifactId>
-                        <version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+                        <version>0.8.0</version>
                         <type>test-jar</type>
                         <scope>test</scope>
                 </dependency>
                 <dependency>
                         <groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
                         <artifactId>asterix-transactions</artifactId>
-                        <version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+                        <version>0.8.0</version>
                         <scope>compile</scope>
                 </dependency>
 		<dependency>
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@
                 <dependency>
                 	<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
                 	<artifactId>asterix-test-framework</artifactId>
-                	<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+                	<version>0.8.0</version>
                 	<scope>test</scope>
                 </dependency>
 	</dependencies>
diff --git a/asterix-aql/pom.xml b/asterix-aql/pom.xml
index bdb61eb..2a0b03a 100644
--- a/asterix-aql/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-aql/pom.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<artifactId>asterix</artifactId>
 		<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
-		<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.8.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>asterix-aql</artifactId>
 	<build>
@@ -118,19 +118,19 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 			<artifactId>asterix-common</artifactId>
-			<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>0.8.0</version>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 			<artifactId>asterix-om</artifactId>
-			<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>0.8.0</version>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 			<artifactId>asterix-metadata</artifactId>
-			<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>0.8.0</version>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
diff --git a/asterix-common/pom.xml b/asterix-common/pom.xml
index 67041dd..1b7d480 100644
--- a/asterix-common/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-common/pom.xml
@@ -12,13 +12,12 @@
  ! See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  ! limitations under the License.
  !-->
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
 	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 	<parent>
 		<artifactId>asterix</artifactId>
 		<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
-		<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.8.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>asterix-common</artifactId>
 	<build>
@@ -119,7 +118,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 			<artifactId>asterix-test-framework</artifactId>
-			<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>0.8.0</version>
 			<scope>test</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
diff --git a/asterix-common/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/test/aql/TestsUtils.java b/asterix-common/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/test/aql/TestsUtils.java
index 2a9783b..88c65ff 100644
--- a/asterix-common/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/test/aql/TestsUtils.java
+++ b/asterix-common/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/test/aql/TestsUtils.java
@@ -325,7 +325,6 @@
 
         List<CompilationUnit> cUnits = testCaseCtx.getTestCase().getCompilationUnit();
         for (CompilationUnit cUnit : cUnits) {
-
             testFileCtxs = testCaseCtx.getTestFiles(cUnit);
             expectedResultFileCtxs = testCaseCtx.getExpectedResultFiles(cUnit);
 
diff --git a/asterix-doc/pom.xml b/asterix-doc/pom.xml
index 9ec87d7..231e10b 100644
--- a/asterix-doc/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-doc/pom.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>asterix</artifactId>
     <groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
-    <version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.8.0</version>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>asterix-doc</artifactId>
   <build>
diff --git a/asterix-doc/src/site/markdown/aql/manual.md b/asterix-doc/src/site/markdown/aql/manual.md
index f1c3fbd..97f70c4 100644
--- a/asterix-doc/src/site/markdown/aql/manual.md
+++ b/asterix-doc/src/site/markdown/aql/manual.md
@@ -552,7 +552,7 @@
 An Internal dataset (the default) is a dataset that is stored in and managed by AsterixDB.
 It must have a specified unique primary key that can be used to partition data across nodes of an AsterixDB cluster.
 The primary key is also used in secondary indexes to uniquely identify the indexed primary data records.
-An External dataset is stored outside of AsterixDB, e.g., in HDFS or in the local filesystem(s) of the cluster's nodes.
+An External dataset is stored outside of AsterixDB (currently datasets in HDFS or on the local filesystem(s) of the cluster's nodes are supported).
 External dataset support allows AQL queries to treat external data as though it were stored in AsterixDB,
 making it possible to query "legacy" file data (e.g., Hive data) without having to physically import it into AsterixDB.
 For an external dataset, an appropriate adaptor must be selected to handle the nature of the desired external data.
@@ -565,14 +565,15 @@
     create internal dataset FacebookUsers(FacebookUserType) primary key id;
 
 The next example creates an external dataset for storing LineitemType records.
-The choice of the `localfs` adaptor means that its data will reside in the local filesystem of the cluster nodes.
-The create statement provides several parameters used by the localfs adaptor;
-e.g., the file format is delimited text with vertical bar being the field delimiter.
+The choice of the `hdfs` adaptor means that its data will reside in HDFS.
+The create statement provides parameters used by the hdfs adaptor:
+the URL and path needed to locate the data in HDFS and a description of the data format.
 
 ##### Example
-
-    create external dataset Lineitem(LineitemType) using localfs (
-      ("path"="127.0.0.1://SOURCE_PATH"),
+    create external dataset Lineitem('LineitemType) using hdfs (
+      ("hdfs"="hdfs://HOST:PORT"),
+      ("path"="HDFS_PATH"),
+      ("input-format"="text-input-format"),
       ("format"="delimited-text"),
       ("delimiter"="|"));
       
@@ -672,6 +673,7 @@
     
 The load statement is used to initially populate a dataset via bulk loading of data from an external file.
 An appropriate adaptor must be selected to handle the nature of the desired external data.
+The load statement accepts the same adaptors and the same parameters as external datasets.
 (See the [guide to external data](externaldata.html) for more information on the available adaptors.)
 
 The following example shows how to bulk load the FacebookUsers dataset from an external file containing
diff --git a/asterix-doc/src/site/markdown/index.md b/asterix-doc/src/site/markdown/index.md
index 4ee2a5f..60b4468 100644
--- a/asterix-doc/src/site/markdown/index.md
+++ b/asterix-doc/src/site/markdown/index.md
@@ -2,18 +2,7 @@
 
 ## What Is AsterixDB? ##
 
-Welcome to the new home of the AsterixDB Big Data Management System (BDMS).
-The AsterixDB BDMS is the result of about 3.5 years of R&D involving researchers at UC Irvine, UC Riverside, and UC San Diego.
-The AsterixDB code base now consists of roughly 250K lines of Java code that has been co-developed at UC Irvine and UC Riverside.
-
-Initiated in 2009, the NSF-sponsored ASTERIX project has been developing new technologies for ingesting, storing, managing, indexing, querying, and analyzing vast quantities of semi-structured information.
-The project has been combining ideas from three distinct areas---semi-structured data, parallel databases, and data-intensive computing (a.k.a. today's Big Data platforms)---in order to create a next-generation, open-source software platform that scales by running on large, shared-nothing commodity computing clusters.
-The ASTERIX effort has been targeting a wide range of semi-structured information, ranging from "data" use cases---where information is well-typed and highly regular---to "content" use cases---where data tends to be irregular, much of each datum may be textual, and the ultimate schema for the various data types involved may be hard to anticipate up front.
-The ASTERIX project has been addressing technical issues including highly scalable data storage and indexing,  semi-structured query processing on very large clusters, and  merging time-tested parallel database techniques with modern data-intensive computing techniques  to support performant yet declarative solutions to the problem of storing and analyzing semi-structured information effectively.
-The first fruits of this labor have been captured in the AsterixDB system that is now being released in preliminary or "Beta" release form.
-We are hoping that the arrival of AsterixDB will mark the beginning of the "BDMS era", and we hope that both the Big Data community and the database community will find the AsterixDB system to be interesting and useful for a much broader class of problems than can be addressed with any one of today's current Big Data platforms and related technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Pig, Hive, HBase, MongoDB, and so on).  One of our project mottos has been "one size fits a bunch"---at least that has been our aim.  For more information about the research effort that led to the birth of AsterixDB, please refer to our NSF project web site: [http://asterix.ics.uci.edu/](http://asterix.ics.uci.edu/).
-
-In a nutshell, AsterixDB is a full-function BDMS with a rich feature set that distinguishes it from pretty much any other Big Data platform that's out and available today.  We believe that its feature set makes it well-suited to modern needs such as web data warehousing and social data storage and analysis.  AsterixDB has:
+In a nutshell, AsterixDB is a full-function BDMS (Big Data Management System) with a rich feature set that distinguishes it from pretty much any other Big Data platform that's out and available today.  We believe that its feature set makes it well-suited to modern needs such as web data warehousing and social data storage and analysis.  AsterixDB has:
 
  * A semistructured NoSQL style data model (ADM) resulting from extending JSON with object database ideas
  * An expressive and declarative query language (AQL) that supports a broad range of queries and analysis over semistructured data
diff --git a/asterix-doc/src/site/site.xml b/asterix-doc/src/site/site.xml
index 8c2a8a8..bd1f660 100644
--- a/asterix-doc/src/site/site.xml
+++ b/asterix-doc/src/site/site.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
   <bannerLeft>
     <name>AsterixDB</name>
     <src>images/asterixlogo.png</src>
-    <href>/index.html</href>
+    <href>http://asterixdb.ics.uci.edu/</href>
   </bannerLeft>
   
   <version position="right"/>
@@ -55,15 +55,15 @@
 
   <body>
     <links>
-      <item name="Home" href="index.html"/>
+      <item name="Documentation Home" href="index.html"/>
     </links>
 
     <menu name="Documentation">
       <item name="Installing AsterixDB using Managix" href="install.html"/>
       <item name="AsterixDB 101: An ADM and AQL Primer" href="aql/primer.html"/>
       <item name="Asterix Data Model (ADM)" href="aql/datamodel.html"/>
-      <item name="Asterix Functions" href="aql/functions.html"/>
       <item name="Asterix Query Language (AQL)" href="aql/manual.html"/>
+      <item name="AQL Functions" href="aql/functions.html"/>
       <item name="AQL Support of Similarity Queries" href="aql/similarity.html"/>
       <item name="Accessing External Data" href="aql/externaldata.html"/>
       <item name="REST API to AsterixDB" href="api.html"/>
diff --git a/asterix-events/pom.xml b/asterix-events/pom.xml
index 42fef89..8e09b69 100644
--- a/asterix-events/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-events/pom.xml
@@ -17,11 +17,11 @@
   <parent>
           <artifactId>asterix</artifactId>
           <groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
-          <version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+          <version>0.8.0</version>
   </parent>
   <groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
   <artifactId>asterix-events</artifactId>
-  <version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>0.8.0</version>
 
   <properties>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@
    <dependency>
      <groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
      <artifactId>asterix-common</artifactId>
-     <version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+     <version>0.8.0</version>
      <type>jar</type>
      <scope>compile</scope>
     </dependency>
diff --git a/asterix-external-data/pom.xml b/asterix-external-data/pom.xml
index 6c3012d..5e9533f 100644
--- a/asterix-external-data/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-external-data/pom.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<artifactId>asterix</artifactId>
 		<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
-		<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.8.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>asterix-external-data</artifactId>
 
@@ -96,14 +96,14 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 			<artifactId>asterix-om</artifactId>
-			<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>0.8.0</version>
 			<type>jar</type>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 			<artifactId>asterix-runtime</artifactId>
-			<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>0.8.0</version>
 			<type>jar</type>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
diff --git a/asterix-installer/pom.xml b/asterix-installer/pom.xml
index bb78af6..a565326 100644
--- a/asterix-installer/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-installer/pom.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
   <parent>
           <artifactId>asterix</artifactId>
           <groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
-          <version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+          <version>0.8.0</version>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>asterix-installer</artifactId>
 	<properties>
@@ -166,35 +166,35 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 			<artifactId>asterix-events</artifactId>
-			<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>0.8.0</version>
 			<type>jar</type>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 			<artifactId>asterix-common</artifactId>
-			<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>0.8.0</version>
 			<type>jar</type>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
                 <dependency>
                         <groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
                         <artifactId>asterix-common</artifactId>
-                        <version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+                        <version>0.8.0</version>
                         <type>test-jar</type>
                         <scope>test</scope>
                 </dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 			<artifactId>asterix-server</artifactId>
-			<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>0.8.0</version>
 			<type>zip</type>
 			<classifier>binary-assembly</classifier>
 		</dependency>
                 <dependency>
                         <groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
                         <artifactId>asterix-test-framework</artifactId>
-                        <version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+                        <version>0.8.0</version>
                         <scope>test</scope>
                 </dependency>
 	</dependencies>
diff --git a/asterix-maven-plugins/lexer-generator-maven-plugin/pom.xml b/asterix-maven-plugins/lexer-generator-maven-plugin/pom.xml
index d769c0d..2145b88 100644
--- a/asterix-maven-plugins/lexer-generator-maven-plugin/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-maven-plugins/lexer-generator-maven-plugin/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<artifactId>asterix-maven-plugins</artifactId>
 		<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
-		<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.8.0</version>
 	</parent>
 
   <packaging>maven-plugin</packaging>
diff --git a/asterix-maven-plugins/pom.xml b/asterix-maven-plugins/pom.xml
index 866f234..1592587 100644
--- a/asterix-maven-plugins/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-maven-plugins/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<artifactId>asterix</artifactId>
 		<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
-		<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.8.0</version>
 	</parent>
 
   <dependencies>
diff --git a/asterix-metadata/pom.xml b/asterix-metadata/pom.xml
index c0d265c..adeee10 100644
--- a/asterix-metadata/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-metadata/pom.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<artifactId>asterix</artifactId>
 		<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
-		<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.8.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>asterix-metadata</artifactId>
 
@@ -40,25 +40,25 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 			<artifactId>asterix-common</artifactId>
-			<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>0.8.0</version>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 			<artifactId>asterix-om</artifactId>
-			<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>0.8.0</version>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 			<artifactId>asterix-external-data</artifactId>
-			<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>0.8.0</version>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 			<artifactId>asterix-runtime</artifactId>
-			<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>0.8.0</version>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
diff --git a/asterix-om/pom.xml b/asterix-om/pom.xml
index 1153518..8b764f4 100644
--- a/asterix-om/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-om/pom.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<artifactId>asterix</artifactId>
 		<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
-		<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.8.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>asterix-om</artifactId>
 
@@ -40,13 +40,13 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 			<artifactId>asterix-common</artifactId>
-			<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>0.8.0</version>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 			<artifactId>asterix-transactions</artifactId>
-			<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>0.8.0</version>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
diff --git a/asterix-runtime/pom.xml b/asterix-runtime/pom.xml
index d29e883..4edc24d 100644
--- a/asterix-runtime/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-runtime/pom.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<artifactId>asterix</artifactId>
 		<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
-		<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.8.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>asterix-runtime</artifactId>
 
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 	      	<plugin>
 	        	<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 	        	<artifactId>lexer-generator-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-	        	<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	        	<version>0.8.0</version>
 	        	<configuration>
 	        	  	<grammarFile>src/main/resources/adm.grammar</grammarFile>
 	        	  	<outputDir>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources/edu/uci/ics/asterix/runtime/operators/file/adm</outputDir>
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 			<artifactId>asterix-om</artifactId>
-			<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>0.8.0</version>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 			<artifactId>asterix-transactions</artifactId>
-			<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>0.8.0</version>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
diff --git a/asterix-server/pom.xml b/asterix-server/pom.xml
index 9df494d..013ec76 100644
--- a/asterix-server/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-server/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
     <artifactId>asterix</artifactId>
-    <version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.8.0</version>
   </parent>
 
   <build>
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
   	<dependency>
   		<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
   		<artifactId>asterix-app</artifactId>
-  		<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  		<version>0.8.0</version>
   	</dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/asterix-test-framework/pom.xml b/asterix-test-framework/pom.xml
index 13eda82..46f9625 100755
--- a/asterix-test-framework/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-test-framework/pom.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<artifactId>asterix</artifactId>
 		<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
-		<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.8.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>asterix-test-framework</artifactId>
 	<build>
diff --git a/asterix-tools/pom.xml b/asterix-tools/pom.xml
index ee9c8f0..26c1be2 100644
--- a/asterix-tools/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-tools/pom.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<artifactId>asterix</artifactId>
 		<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
-		<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.8.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>asterix-tools</artifactId>
 
@@ -138,13 +138,13 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 			<artifactId>asterix-aql</artifactId>
-			<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>0.8.0</version>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 			<artifactId>asterix-algebra</artifactId>
-			<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+			<version>0.8.0</version>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
diff --git a/asterix-transactions/pom.xml b/asterix-transactions/pom.xml
index 3268e3d..8ccc88b 100644
--- a/asterix-transactions/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-transactions/pom.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<artifactId>asterix</artifactId>
 		<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
-		<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<version>0.8.0</version>
 	</parent>
 	<artifactId>asterix-transactions</artifactId>
 
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
                 <dependency>
                         <groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
                         <artifactId>asterix-common</artifactId>
-                        <version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+                        <version>0.8.0</version>
                         <type>jar</type>
                         <scope>compile</scope>
                 </dependency>
diff --git a/asterix-transactions/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/transaction/management/resource/PersistentLocalResourceRepository.java b/asterix-transactions/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/transaction/management/resource/PersistentLocalResourceRepository.java
index 3b6c650..ace47a2 100644
--- a/asterix-transactions/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/transaction/management/resource/PersistentLocalResourceRepository.java
+++ b/asterix-transactions/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/transaction/management/resource/PersistentLocalResourceRepository.java
@@ -64,8 +64,7 @@
     }
 
     private String prepareRootMetaDataFileName(String mountPoint, String nodeId, int ioDeviceId) {
-        return mountPoint + File.separator + ROOT_METADATA_DIRECTORY + File.separator + 
-                 nodeId + "_" + "iodevice" + ioDeviceId;
+        return mountPoint + ROOT_METADATA_DIRECTORY + File.separator + nodeId + "_" + "iodevice" + ioDeviceId;
     }
 
     public void initialize(String nodeId, String rootDir, boolean isNewUniverse, ResourceIdFactory resourceIdFactory)
@@ -127,6 +126,7 @@
             }
         };
 
+        long maxResourceId = 0;
         for (int i = 0; i < numIODevices; i++) {
             String rootMetadataFileName = prepareRootMetaDataFileName(mountPoints[i], nodeId, i) + File.separator
                     + ROOT_METADATA_FILE_NAME_PREFIX;
@@ -149,7 +149,6 @@
                 continue;
             }
 
-            long maxResourceId = 0;
             File[] dataverseFileList = rootDirFile.listFiles();
             if (dataverseFileList == null) {
                 throw new HyracksDataException("Metadata dataverse doesn't exist.");
@@ -188,11 +187,11 @@
                     }
                 }
             }
-            resourceIdFactory.initId(maxResourceId + 1);
-            if (LOGGER.isLoggable(Level.INFO)) {
-                LOGGER.info("The resource id factory is intialized with the value: " + (maxResourceId + 1));
-                LOGGER.info("Completed the initialization of the local resource repository");
-            }
+        }
+        resourceIdFactory.initId(maxResourceId + 1);
+        if (LOGGER.isLoggable(Level.INFO)) {
+            LOGGER.info("The resource id factory is intialized with the value: " + (maxResourceId + 1));
+            LOGGER.info("Completed the initialization of the local resource repository");
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ee4220f..2a9f2a6 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -17,12 +17,12 @@
 	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 	<groupId>edu.uci.ics.asterix</groupId>
 	<artifactId>asterix</artifactId>
-	<version>0.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<version>0.8.0</version>
 	<packaging>pom</packaging>
 
     <properties>
-    	<algebricks.version>0.2.6-SNAPSHOT</algebricks.version>
-    	<hyracks.version>0.2.6-SNAPSHOT</hyracks.version>
+    	<algebricks.version>0.2.6</algebricks.version>
+    	<hyracks.version>0.2.6</hyracks.version>
     </properties>
 
 	<build>