[ANNOUNCE] Apache UIMA DUCC 2.0.1 released

[Jaroslaw Cwiklik]

The Apache UIMA team is pleased to announce the release of the UIMA DUCC,
version 2.0.1.

DUCC stands for Distributed UIMA Cluster Computing. DUCC is a cluster
management system providing tooling, management, and scheduling facilities
to automate the scale-out of applications written to the UIMA framework.
Core UIMA provides a generalized framework for applications that process
unstructured information such as human language, but does not provide a
scale-out mechanism. UIMA-AS provides a scale-out mechanism to distribute
UIMA pipelines over a cluster of computing resources, but does not provide
job or cluster management of the resources. DUCC defines a formal job model
that closely maps to a standard UIMA pipeline. Around this job model DUCC
provides cluster management services to automate the scale-out of UIMA
pipelines over computing clusters.

This is a bug release, addressing bugs found since DUCC 2.0.0 release. For
a full list of the changes, please refer to Jira report:
http://uima.apache.org/d/uima-ducc-2.0.1/issuesFixed/jira-report.html

More information about DUCC can be found here:
http://uima.apache.org/doc-uimaducc-whatitam.html

-Jerry Cwiklik, for the Apache UIMA community

[ANNOUNCE] Apache Tika 1.11 release

[Chris Mattmann]

The Apache Tika project is pleased to announce the release of Apache
Tika 1.11. The release contents have been pushed out to the main
Apache release site and to the Central sync, so the releases should
be available as soon as the mirrors get the syncs.

Apache Tika is a toolkit for detecting and extracting metadata and
structured text content from various documents using existing parser
libraries.

Apache Tika 1.11 contains a number of improvements and bug fixes.
Details can be found in the changes file:
http://www.apache.org/dist/tika/CHANGES-1.11.txt


Apache Tika is available in source form from the following download
page: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/tika/apache-tika-1.11-src.zip


Apache Tika is also available in binary form or for use using Maven
2 from the Central Repository:
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/tika/


In the initial 48 hours, the release may not be available on all
mirrors. When downloading from a mirror site, please remember to
verify the downloads using signatures found on the Apache site:
https://people.apache.org/keys/group/tika.asc


For more information on Apache Tika, visit the project home page:
http://tika.apache.org/ 

— Chris Mattmann, on behalf of the Apache Tika community