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# [ANN] Consul 0.2 Release

We released Consul 0.1 exactly two weeks ago, and today we are releasing 0.2.
This is a very exciting release for a few reasons:

* Release of the Web UI. Consul now ships with an easy to use interface that
  gives access to all the key information. We have a live demo running across
  3 datacenters here: http://demo.consul.io/

* New read consistency modes. After feedback from the community, we introduced
  two new read consistency modes. The "consistent" mode is strongly consistent
  without caveats but adds network latency to reads, while the "stale" mode allows
  for lower latency, high throughput reads by enabling stale data to be returned.

* Lots of minor improvements and bug fixes. The community helped us find all the
  rough edges, so this is a much more polished release. Thanks to everybody!

Needless to say there are lots of changes in this release, but the full changelog
is avabilable here: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#020-may-1-2014

We are very happy with the interest and community involvement so far,
and are looking forward to Consul 0.3 in the near future!