Apache uimaFIT (TM) v3.4.0

This is a feature and bugfix release.

What's Changed

Improvements

⭐️ Issue #195: Detect descriptors via SPI by @reckart in https://github.com/apache/uima-uimafit/pull/197, https://github.com/apache/uima-uimafit/pull/204
⭐️ Issue #196: Provide OSGI metadata in JARs by @reckart in https://github.com/apache/uima-uimafit/pull/199, https://github.com/apache/uima-uimafit/pull/202, https://github.com/apache/uima-uimafit/pull/203
⭐️ Issue #205: Managed CASes in tests should consider validators by @reckart in https://github.com/apache/uima-uimafit/pull/206
⭐️ Issue #209: Ability to override validator for a test by @reckart in https://github.com/apache/uima-uimafit/pull/210
⭐️ Issue #211: Conveniently skip validation by @reckart in https://github.com/apache/uima-uimafit/pull/212
⭐️ Issue #215: Improve descriptor scanning performance when there are many classloaders by @reckart in https://github.com/apache/uima-uimafit/pull/216
⭐️ Issue #220: Add getType signature accepting a type system by @reckart in https://github.com/apache/uima-uimafit/pull/221

Bugs fixed

🦟 Issue #207: Cannot override CAS content set in a BeforeEach method by @reckart in https://github.com/apache/uima-uimafit/pull/208
🦟 Issue #213: Avoid broken typesystem when using ManagedCas by @reckart in https://github.com/apache/uima-uimafit/pull/214

Refactorings

For a full list of issues affecting this release, please see:

uimaFIT 3.4.0 should be used in combination with