+1 On Tue, Sep 8, 2026 at 6:10 AM Richard Zowalla <[email protected]> wrote:
> Subject: [VOTE] Apache OpenNLP 3.0.0-M6 RC1 > > Hi folks, > > I have posted a first release candidate for the Apache OpenNLP 3.0.0-M6 > release and it is ready for testing. > > This milestone adds a pure-Java SentencePiece inference API that preserves > exact original-text spans (OPENNLP-1885), a document annotation container > with typed, offset-anchored layers (OPENNLP-1888) together with a > document-scoped term vector layer (OPENNLP-1897), dictionary-based > tokenization for Japanese, Korean and Chinese (OPENNLP-1894), and support > for Hunspell affix dictionaries for stemming (OPENNLP-1893). > > A large part of this candidate is about correctness and robustness. > Default-locale case folding no longer corrupts lemmatizer models and output > or breaks Morfologik dictionary lookup (OPENNLP-1904, OPENNLP-1905), the > EMAIL and URL patterns in RegexNameFinderFactory can no longer exhaust the > stack (OPENNLP-1922), SymSpell model deserialization is hardened against > oversized count fields (OPENNLP-1899), cached models are verified against > their SHA-512 checksum (OPENNLP-1902), and there is now a general verified > installer for user-supplied third-party resources (OPENNLP-1909). The > OpenNLP security model is documented and published (OPENNLP-1900). > > On the performance side, BeamSearch replaces per-candidate Sequence copies > with chain nodes (OPENNLP-1903), and the sentence detector's abbreviation > veto is no longer quadratic in document length (OPENNLP-1906). There is > also a new Paragraph Normalizer for Gutenberg-style and Markdown text > (OPENNLP-1921), and ONNX Runtime moves to 1.28.0. > > 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-1073 > > <repositories> > <repository> > <id>opennlp-3.0.0-M6-rc1</id> > <name>Testing OpenNLP 3.0.0-M6 release candidate</name> > <url> > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheopennlp-1073 > </url> > </repository> > </repositories> > > Binaries & Source: > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/opennlp/opennlp-3.0.0-M6-rc1/ > > Tag: > > https://github.com/apache/opennlp/releases/tag/opennlp-3.0.0-M6 > > Tag Hash: 6a513dffb52e67d750fe8eef00e46d258875d461 > > Release notes: > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12311215&version=12357275 > > 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/38/ > > Reminder: The up-2-date KEYS file for signature verification can be > found here: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/opennlp/KEYS > > Checklist for reference: > > [ ] Both source (tar.gz/zip) and binary artifacts (tar.gz/zip) are > present, along with .asc and .sha512 files for each. > [ ] PGP signatures are valid for the release artifacts using the KEYS file > from dist.apache.org > [ ] SHA512 checksums are correct and verified. > [ ] LICENSE and NOTICE files exist and are accurate. > [ ] No unexpected binary files in the source release. > [ ] All source files have appropriate ASF headers (excluding generated > files and legacy files). > [ ] Build completes successfully from source and the instruction to do so > are clear. > > Please vote on releasing these packages as Apache OpenNLP 3.0.0-M6. 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! > > Richard
