Hi folks, I have posted a 1st release candidate (rc1) for the Apache OpenNLP 2.5.0 release and it is ready for testing.
In total, this release tackles 62 issues and brings several dependency updates, bug fixes, substantial additions and some corrections for the API! OpenNLP version 2.5.0 will support thread-safe sentence detection, tokenization and POS-tagging (see: OPENNLP-936). With that new release, there is the possibility to disable the POS tag mapper (see: OPENNLP-1600). Furthermore, it relies on opennlp-models in version 1.1 which got substantially extended by models for 18 new languages (see: OPENNLP-1615). The OpenNLP Brat Annotator component has been moved to the OpenNLP sandbox repository due to limited quality and usability concerns (see: OPENNLP-1634). Thereby, several compile and runtime dependencies could be dropped (Jackson, Jersey, etc.) and are thus no longer shipped with the "bin" artifacts. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release, including all of our users and the people who submitted bug reports, contributed code or documentation enhancements. The release was made using the OpenNLP release process, documented on the website: https://opennlp.apache.org/release.html Maven Repo: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheopennlp-1043 <repositories> <repository> <id>opennlp-2.5.0-rc1</id> <name>Testing OpenNLP 2.5.0 release candidate</name> <url> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheopennlp-1043 </url> </repository> </repositories> Binaries & Source: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/opennlp/opennlp-2.5.0 Tag: https://github.com/apache/opennlp/releases/tag/opennlp-2.5.0 Release notes: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12311215&version=12354554 The results of the eval tests for the aforementioned tag can be found here: https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/OpenNLP/job/eval-tests-releases/14/ Reminder: The up-2-date KEYS file for signature verification can be found here: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/opennlp/KEYS Please vote on releasing these packages as Apache OpenNLP 2.5.0. The vote is open for at least the next 72 hours. Only votes from OpenNLP PMC are binding, but everyone is welcome to check the release candidate and vote. The vote passes if at least three binding +1 votes are cast. Please VOTE [+1] go ship it [+0] meh, don't care [-1] stop, there is a ${showstopper} Thanks! Martin | mawiesne
