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| # Apache UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture) v3.6.0 Release Notes |
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| ## Contents |
| |
| [What is UIMA?](#what.is.uima) |
| [Major Changes in this Release](#major.changes) |
| [List of JIRA Issues Fixed in this Release](#list.issues) |
| [How to Get Involved](#get.involved) |
| [How to Report Issues](#report.issues) |
| |
| ## <a id="what.is.uima">What is UIMA?</a> |
| |
| Unstructured Information Management applications are software systems that analyze large volumes of |
| unstructured information in order to discover knowledge that is relevant to an end user. UIMA is a |
| framework and SDK for developing such applications. An example UIM application might ingest plain |
| text and identify entities, such as persons, places, organizations; or relations, such as works-for |
| or located-at. UIMA enables such an application to be decomposed into components, for example |
| "language identification" -> "language specific segmentation" -> "sentence boundary detection" -> |
| "entity detection (person/place names etc.)". Each component must implement interfaces defined by |
| the framework and must provide self-describing metadata via XML descriptor files. The framework |
| manages these components and the data flow between them. Components are written in Java or C++; the |
| data that flows between components is designed for efficient mapping between these languages. UIMA |
| additionally provides capabilities to wrap components as network services, and can scale to very |
| large volumes by replicating processing pipelines over a cluster of networked nodes. |
| |
| Apache UIMA is an Apache-licensed open source implementation of the UIMA specification (that |
| specification is, in turn, being developed concurrently by a technical committee within |
| [OASIS](http://www.oasis-open.org), a standards organization). We invite and encourage you to |
| participate in both the implementation and specification efforts. |
| |
| UIMA is a component framework for analysing unstructured content such as text, audio and video. It |
| comprises an SDK and tooling for composing and running analytic components written in Java and C++. |
| |
| ## <a id="major.changes">Notable changes in this release</a> |
| |
| This is a feature and bug fix release. |
| |
| ## System requirements updated |
| |
| * Minimum Java version required: 17 or later |
| * Minimum Eclipse version required: 4.25 (2022-09) |
| |
| |
| ## What's Changed |
| * ⭐️ Issue #372: Allow adding URLs to the datapath |
| * ⭐️ Issue #348: Varargs for description class setters |
| * ⭐️ Issue #369: Move isTypeName and isFeatureName to public API |
| * ⭐️ Issue #402: Provide bnd plugin to generate package imports based on imports in UIMA descriptors |
| * ⭐️ Issue #382: Warning when PEAR contains a JCAS class that is used as a feature range outside the PEAR |
| * ⭐️ Issue #385: Allow import of type systems published through SPI |
| * ⭐️ Issue #387: Simplify creation of new UIMAContext |
| * ⭐️ Issue #390: Merge uimaFIT modules into UIMA-J repository |
| * ⭐️ Issue #393: Include uimaFIT artifacts in binary distribution |
| * 🦟 Issue #368: select(AnnotationBaseFs-type).count() seems to return MAX_LONG |
| * 🦟 Issue #371: Repeated creation of type systems can exhaust JVM metaspace |
| * 🦟 Issue #395: Potential failure to look up UIMA-internal classes in OSGI-like contexts |
| * ⚙️ Issue #379: Clean up code |
| * ⚙️ Issue #398: Mark Maven plugins as thread-safe |
| * ⚙️ Issue #404: Remove toolchains |
| * ⚙️ Issue #407: Clean up PearPackagingMavenPlugin |
| * ⚙️ Issue #409: Update dependencies |
| * ⚙️ Issue #417: BOM should not inherit build setup from parent POM |
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| |
| **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/apache/uima-uimaj/compare/rel/uimaj-3.5.1...uimaj-3.6.0 |
| |
| |
| ## <a id="get.involved">How to Get Involved</a> |
| |
| The Apache UIMA project really needs and appreciates any contributions, including documentation |
| help, source code and feedback. If you are interested in contributing, please visit |
| [http://uima.apache.org/get-involved.html](http://uima.apache.org/get-involved.html). |
| |
| ## <a id="report.issues">How to Report Issues</a> |
| |
| The Apache UIMA project uses GitHub for issue tracking. Please report any issues you find at |
| [https://github.com/apache/uima-uimaj/issues](https://github.com/apache/uima-uimaj/issues). |
