The Apache Tika project is pleased to announce the release of Apache Tika 3.0.0-BETA2. The release contents have been pushed out to the main Apache release site and to the Maven Central sync.
Apache Tika is a toolkit for detecting and extracting metadata and structured text content from various documents using existing parser libraries. Apache Tika 3.0.0-BETA2 includes numerous bug fixes and dependency upgrades. The biggest change in the 3.x branch is that it requires >= Java 11. Details can be found in the changes file: https://www.apache.org/dist/tika/3.0.0-BETA2/CHANGES-3.0.0-BETA2.txt Apache Tika is available on the download page: https://tika.apache.org/download.html Apache Tika will be available shortly in binary form or for use using Maven 2 from the Central Repository: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/tika/ When downloading, please remember to verify the downloads using signatures found: https://www.apache.org/dist/tika/KEYS For more information on Apache Tika, visit the project home page: https://tika.apache.org/ NOTE: This release requires Java 11. We plan to support the 2.x branch (which requires Java 8) for six months after the release of 3.0.0. -- Tim Allison, on behalf of the Apache Tika community
