- January 2013: MR-Runner upgraded! Now the MR-Runner deploys Hadoop-1.0.0 clusters, compatible with Pig-0.10.0.
- December 2012: KOALA 2.1 released! Deploy MapReduce clusters on DAS-4 with the Koala MR-Runner.
- November 2012: Best Paper Award at MTAGS12 workshop (co-located with SC12) with work on MapReduce!
- November 2009: KOALA 2.0 released! You can now run Parameter sweep applications (PSAs) with KOALA CSRunner.
- April 2008: New KOALA runner! The OMRunner enables DRMAA and OpenMPI job submissions.
- July 2007: Paper accepted at Grid07 conference with work on scheduling malleable jobs in KOALA.
- May 2007: KOALA has now been ported successfully to DAS-3. All the KOALA runners are operational apart from the DRunner.
- April 2007: The KOALA IRunner has been updated to include recommendations made by the Ibis group .