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<section id="overview">
    <h2 class="section-title">Overview <a href="#"><i class="top-link fas fa-fw fa-angle-double-up"></i></a></h2>
    <p>
        <a href="/download.html">NLPCraft 0.8.0</a> brings about several important bug fixes, improvements and enhancements.
    </p>
</section>
<section id="new">
    <h2 class="section-title">🙌 New <a href="#"><i class="top-link fas fa-fw fa-angle-double-up"></i></a></h2>
    <ul>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-109'>NLPCRAFT-109</a> - <code>prepare.{sh|cmd}</code> and <code>start_server.{cmd|sh}</code> don't work when invoked from other directories.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-129'>NLPCRAFT-129</a> - Improve logging of intent and variant weights.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-271'>NLPCRAFT-271</a> - Tests should be called for all supported databases (DB schema changed).</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-319'>NLPCRAFT-319</a> - REST properties parameters.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-320'>NLPCRAFT-320</a> - All methods which convert JSON should throw <code>NCException</code>.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-323'>NLPCRAFT-323</a> - Account for metadata in <code>NCResult</code> in REST API and SQL, if necessary.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-328'>NLPCRAFT-328</a> - 'Release' branch should be added or doc should be updated.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-329'>NLPCRAFT-329</a> - Add min Java/Scala version to download and README.</li>
    </ul>
</section>
<section id="enhancements">
    <h2 class="section-title">🤖 Enhancements <a href="#"><i class="top-link fas fa-fw fa-angle-double-up"></i></a></h2>
    <ul>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-36'>NLPCRAFT-36</a> - Support 2 different test folders (scala and java).</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-184'>NLPCRAFT-184</a> - Java client JAR names should be prefixed like JARs in main NLPCraft project.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-245'>NLPCRAFT-245</a> - Java client external resource manager should have link to some "frozen" tag, but not master.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-303'>NLPCRAFT-303</a> - Connection established too long time.</li>
    </ul>
</section>
<section id="fixes">
    <h2 class="section-title">🧐 Fixes <a href="#"><i class="top-link fas fa-fw fa-angle-double-up"></i></a></h2>
    <ul>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-76'>NLPCRAFT-76</a> - Test failure on Windows.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-321'>NLPCRAFT-321</a> - Dialog flow item is missing intent result.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-322'>NLPCRAFT-322</a> - <code>NCResult</code> must extend <code>NCMedata</code>.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-327'>NLPCRAFT-327</a> - NLPCraft build fails as sometimes the <code>.nlpcraft</code> directory is not auto-created</li>
    </ul>
</section>