Hi, the second release candidate of Apache UIMA Ruta v2.5.0 is ready for voting. Since the first release candidate was created some time ago and several new issues have been fixed since then, here's a complete and updated list of the major changes:
UIMA Ruta Language and Analysis Engine: - Depends on UIMA 2.9.0 and uimaFIT 2.2.0 - New block FOREACH: iterate over pattern and reuse the matched annotation in contained rules - Label expressions across inlined rules are supported, behave like local variables now - Feature expressions on label expressions are supported - Setting values of variables by configuration parameter - Macros support variables - New type function: typeFromString - Wordlist initialization with string expressions: simplified specification of language-dependent dictionary usage - New maven archetype for typical UIMA Ruta projects - Improved and faster maven plugins - Parameters additionalScripts and additionalEngines are now optional - Removed engine loader concept and parameter completely - Removed redundant Document type - Improved datapath support - Improved resource manager support - Many bug fixes and improvements UIMA Ruta Workbench: - Improved support of classpath-lookup in maven-based projects - Launch configuration supports various serialization formats (with preference) - Bug fixes Staging repository: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheuima-1106/ SVN tag: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/uima/ruta/tags/ruta-2.5.0 Update site: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/uima/ruta-2.5.0-rc2/eclipse-update-site/ruta/ Archive with all sources: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/uima/ruta-2.5.0-rc2/source-release/ruta-2.5.0-source-release.zip Overall 71 issues (in contrast to 42 for rc1) have been fixed for this release (a few duplicates and won't fix). They can be found in the RELEASE_NOTES.html. ... and here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20UIMA%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%202.5.0ruta%20AND%20component%20%3D%20ruta%20ORDER%20BY%20created%20DESC Please vote on release: [ ] +1 OK to release [ ] 0 Don't care [ ] -1 Not OK to release, because ... Thanks. Peter
