Stata is a general–purpose statistical package with an accessible programming language. Its latest major release, 8.0, became available in January 2003, and represented the most thorough redesign of the program’s capabilities since its inception. This redevelopment has provided a number of features that go beyond version 7.0, as reviewed by Kolenikov (2001). Other changes in the Stata product line were made during the life of version 7.0, as described below. Since upward compatibility is a high priority for Stata’s developers, the vast majority of the features described in that review are accessible in the current version as well.