You can find the issue list in the distributable: issuesFixed/jira-report.html as well as a readme with a summary of the main important issues.
For your convenience - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENNLP-650?jql=project%20%3D%20OPENNLP%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%201.6.0 README contents Apache OpenNLP 1.6.0 =============================== Building from the Source Distribution ------------------------------------- At least Maven 3.0.0 is required for building. To build everything execute the following command in the root folder: mvn clean install The results of the build will be placed in: opennlp-distr/target/apache-opennlp-[version]-bin.tar-gz (or .zip) What is new in Apache OpenNLP 1.6.0 --------------------------------------- This release introduces many new features, improvements and bug fixes. The API has been improved for a better consistency and 1.4 deprecated methods were removed. Now Java 1.7 is required. Additionally the release contains the following noteworthy changes: - Added evalutation support to the parser and doccat components - Added support to Evalita 07/09, Brat and OntoNotes corpus formats - Now L-BFGS is stable - Added Snowball to the Stemmer package - NameFinder now supports a user defined factory - Added pluggable machine learning support - Added a lemmatizer module - Added Cluster, Document Begin and Clark feature generators to the Name Finder - Added Liblinear as a Machine Learning addon - Entity Linker now has a command line interface - Added sequence classification support A detailed list of the issues related to this release can be found in the release notes. Requirements ------------ Java 1.7 is required to run OpenNLP Maven 3.0.0 is required for building it Known OSGi Issues ------------ In an OSGi environment the following things are not supported: - The coreference resolution component 2015-01-22 18:13 GMT-02:00 Mike Reed <mike.r...@pathar.net>: > To help those of us on the periphery follow along more closely, can you > isolate and distribute the mentioned issues list please? > > I use the library in .NET via https://www.nuget.org/packages/OpenNLP.NET/ > so I'd like to follow along, but these releases are not directly available > for me to drop into my solution and I am less aware of the code and > structures than those who work at a lower level. I am however very > interested in any and all advances of the library. > > -----Original Message----- > From: William Colen [mailto:william.co...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 1:55 PM > To: dev@opennlp.apache.org > Subject: OpenNLP 1.6.0 RC 2 ready for testing > > Hi all, > > Our second release candidate is ready for testing. RC 1 failed to pass the > initial tests. > > The RC 2 can be downloaded from here: > http://people.apache.org/~colen/releases/opennlp-1.6.0/rc2/ > > To use it in a maven build set the version for opennlp-tools or > opennlp-uima to 1.6.0 and add the following URL to your settings.xml file: > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheopennlp-1001 > > The current test plan can be found here: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OPENNLP/TestPlan1.6.0 > > Please sign up for tasks in the test plan. > > The release plan can be found here: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OPENNLP/ReleasePlanAndTasks1.6.0 > > The RC contains quite some changes, please refer to the contained issue > list for details. > > Thank you, > William >