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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 0.7.5</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-7'>NLPCRAFT-7</a> - Need to add list of complex <a href="/intent-matching.html">IDL</a> examples to a cheat-sheet.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-69'>NLPCRAFT-69</a> - Create CI builds for different OS/JDK.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-91'>NLPCRAFT-91</a> - Create Kotlin-based example for NLP-enabling Minecraft game.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-195'>NLPCRAFT-195</a> - Produce comparative analysis.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-206'>NLPCRAFT-206</a> - Improve intent and token <a href="/intent-matching.html">IDL</a>.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-231'>NLPCRAFT-231</a> - Intent should be able to match on model metadata.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-234'>NLPCRAFT-234</a> - Add metadata to NCUser and NCCompany &amp; update DB.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-236'>NLPCRAFT-236</a> - Add "nestedOnly" flag to model element and "isTopLevel" to <code>NCToken</code> interface.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-251'>NLPCRAFT-251</a> - We need to make macro processor available for the models generated by code.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-252'>NLPCRAFT-252</a> - Update docs for new macro DSL &amp; <a href="/intent-matching.html">IDL</a>.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-253'>NLPCRAFT-253</a> - LightSwitch example works very slow - some samples take &gt; 1.5s to be processed.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-254'>NLPCRAFT-254</a> - We need to support *.nc files that would include intent and predicate <a href="/intent-matching.html">IDL</a> declarations.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-255'>NLPCRAFT-255</a> - We need ability to put intents and fragments in a separate file(s) *.nc referenced in the model.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-256'>NLPCRAFT-256</a> - Intent <a href="/intent-matching.html">IDL</a> fragment must be paramerterized with JSON parameters.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-259'>NLPCRAFT-259</a> - NCIntent should be applicable on class level.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-263'>NLPCRAFT-263</a> - Callback method should support multiple intents attached to it.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-265'>NLPCRAFT-265</a> - Check that the same callback is not reused my multiple intents.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-266'>NLPCRAFT-266</a> - NCIntent annotation should be applicable to model class as well.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-270'>NLPCRAFT-270</a> - All project templates should be fixed according to new <a href="/intent-matching.html">IDL</a> syntax.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-272'>NLPCRAFT-272</a> - Test for user and company metadata usage.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-275'>NLPCRAFT-275</a> - Rename DSL to NLPCraft <a href="/intent-matching.html">IDL</a>.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-281'>NLPCRAFT-281</a> - Add term-scoped variables to <a href="/intent-matching.html">IDL</a>.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-282'>NLPCRAFT-282</a> - NCMetaSpec passes individually, but fails in a suite.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-283'>NLPCRAFT-283</a> - Need to test user-defined term and flow predicate.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-290'>NLPCRAFT-290</a> - Tests hang under Ubuntu on "verify" phase.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-300'>NLPCRAFT-300</a> - Move external configuration to a special tag on github away from master.</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-144'>NLPCRAFT-144</a> - Ping time too long.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-213'>NLPCRAFT-213</a> - SQL example database.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-227'>NLPCRAFT-227</a> - Examples should be moved to special module.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-232'>NLPCRAFT-232</a> - Token <a href="/intent-matching.html">IDL</a> should support user data and user request data.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-238'>NLPCRAFT-238</a> - We have to allow to override some model properties in model elements.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-240'>NLPCRAFT-240</a> - Intents annotations should be scanned not in the model class only, but in the its parent classes too.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-247'>NLPCRAFT-247</a> - Synonyms <a href="/intent-matching.html">IDL</a> improvements.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-248'>NLPCRAFT-248</a> - "Flow" intent parameter logic.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-249'>NLPCRAFT-249</a> - Direct synonyms should have higher priority comparing to artificial.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-250'>NLPCRAFT-250</a> - Support "any word" in <a href="/intent-matching.html">IDL</a>.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-257'>NLPCRAFT-257</a> - <code>NCUser</code>, <code>NCCompany</code> and <code>NCConversation</code> should use metadata.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-261'>NLPCRAFT-261</a> - Sentences collapsing performance improvement.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-267'>NLPCRAFT-267</a> - <a href="/intent-matching.html">IDL</a> synonyms processing refactoring.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-274'>NLPCRAFT-274</a> - Log output data format.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-278'>NLPCRAFT-278</a> - NLPCraft <a href="/intent-matching.html">IDL</a> functions.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-279'>NLPCRAFT-279</a> - NLPCraft <a href="/intent-matching.html">IDL</a> tokens functions renaming.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-287'>NLPCRAFT-287</a> - "jiggleFactor" and "permutateSynonyms" default values.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-289'>NLPCRAFT-289</a> - Add new <a href="/intent-matching.html">IDL</a> function any() which always return true.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-302'>NLPCRAFT-302</a> - Processing error when <code>NCIntentRef</code> or0 <code>NCIntentSample</code> used with static methods.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-305'>NLPCRAFT-305</a> - Build procedure fixes.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-307'>NLPCRAFT-307</a> - Add info about minecraft gradle wrapper jars to readme.md.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-308'>NLPCRAFT-308</a> - Fix gradle warnings in module minecraft-mod.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-310'>NLPCRAFT-310</a> - Minecraft example kotlin warnings.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-311'>NLPCRAFT-311</a> - Default probe model started from <a href="/tools/script.html">CLI</a> seems strange.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-312'>NLPCRAFT-312</a> - <a href="/tools/script.html">CLI</a> - server and probe version info should be added.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-313'>NLPCRAFT-313</a> - Generated from <a href="/tools/script.html">CLI</a> project templates updated.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-314'>NLPCRAFT-314</a> - <code>NCMinecraftFilesDump</code> improvements.</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-218'>NLPCRAFT-218</a> - Suggestions tool logic.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-230'>NLPCRAFT-230</a> - Kotlin example failure.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-233'>NLPCRAFT-233</a> - SQL model error.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-235'>NLPCRAFT-235</a> - We need to warn users about "suspicious" synonyms, like "table?" instead of {table|*}.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-237'>NLPCRAFT-237</a> - Intents matching issues.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-246'>NLPCRAFT-246</a> - The probe returns empty variants for some elements configurations.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-258'>NLPCRAFT-258</a> - Invalid part types of complex elements.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-260'>NLPCRAFT-260</a> - Invalid sentence variants detected.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-262'>NLPCRAFT-262</a> - NPE in <a href="/tools/script.html">CLI</a> when no .nlpcraft exists</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-268'>NLPCRAFT-268</a> - Similar sentences (with different &#39;direct&#39; synonyms values property) processed incorrectly.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-269'>NLPCRAFT-269</a> - <a href="/tools/script.html">CLI</a> cannot recognize server state.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-276'>NLPCRAFT-276</a> - NlpCraft <a href="/intent-matching.html">IDL</a> functions processing error.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-277'>NLPCRAFT-277</a> - Redundant tokens variants processed.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-286'>NLPCRAFT-286</a> - "swearWords" configuration property usage.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-291'>NLPCRAFT-291</a> - <code>NCModelView.getMetadata()</code> vs. <code>NCMetadata.getMetadata()</code>.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-292'>NLPCRAFT-292</a> - <code>NCLogHolder</code> class still has TODOs that affect the logic.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-293'>NLPCRAFT-293</a> - Remove or rename and refactor <code>NCJiggleSpec</code>.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-294'>NLPCRAFT-294</a> - Token property <code>nlpcraft:nlp:sparsity</code> has invalid (int) type. Must be <code>boolean</code>.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-295'>NLPCRAFT-295</a> - Solver processing error</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-301'>NLPCRAFT-301</a> - NLPCraft <a href="/tools/script.html">CLI</a> does not show model ID (only model classes).</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-304'>NLPCRAFT-304</a> - Both server and probe must be to load config a) from URL, b) absolute path, and c) resource or classloader.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-306'>NLPCRAFT-306</a> - When probe and server have diff versions - probe does not shutdown properly (hangs).</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-315'>NLPCRAFT-315</a> - Probe config can be overridden.</li>
        <li><a target="jira" href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NLPCRAFT-316'>NLPCRAFT-316</a> - Rat plugin errors during release preparing.</li>
    </ul>
</section>