[ANNOUNCE] Apache UIMA Ruta 2.8.1 released

[Peter Kluegl]

The Apache UIMA team is pleased to announce the release of
Apache UIMA Ruta (Rule-based Text Annotation), version 2.8.1.

The Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) is a
component framework supporting development, discovery, composition, and
deployment of multi-modal analytics tasked with the analysis of
unstructured information.

Apache UIMA is an Apache licensed open source implementation of the UIMA
specification which is being developed by a technical committee within
OASIS, a standards organization. The implementation comprises an SDK and
tooling for composing and running analytic components.

Apache UIMA Ruta is a rule-based script language supported by
Eclipse-based tooling. The language is designed to enable rapid
development of text processing applications within UIMA. A special focus
lies on the intuitive and flexible domain specific language for defining
patterns of annotations. The Eclipse-based tooling,
called the Apache UIMA Ruta Workbench, supports the
user and facilitates every step when writing rules. Both
the rule language and the workbench integrate
smoothly with Apache UIMA.


This bugfix release is *not* compatible with UIMA v3.

The UIMA Ruta Workbench and in particular the launching of UIMA Ruta
script in simple UIMA Ruta projects faces some incompatibilities with
newer Java versions. Please refer to the UIMA mailing lists for known
workarounds.


Major Changes:

- Fixed broken literal string matching.
- Fixed variable initialization with other variables.
- Fixed assignment of lists to variables.
- Fixed assignment of annotation comparison expression to variables.
- PARSE condition supports additional argument that represents the
string to be parsed.


For a full list of the changes, please refer to Jira:
https://uima.apache.org/d/ruta-2.8.1/issuesFixed/jira-report.html

You can download the source package here:
https://uima.apache.org/downloads.cgi

The UIMA Ruta Workbench is available at the Eclipse update site:
https://www.apache.org/dist/uima/eclipse-update-site/


More information about UIMA Ruta can be found here:
https://uima.apache.org/ruta.html


 - Peter Klügl, for the Apache UIMA development team







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[ANNOUNCE] Apache UIMA-AS 2.8.1 released

[Jaroslaw Cwiklik]

The Apache UIMA team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache
UIMA-AS version 2.8.1, which includes asynchronous scaleout capabilities
for the UIMA annotators.

UIMA-AS includes the base UIMA SDK and augments it with scaleout
capability; it is a next-generation replacement for the original CPM
(Collection Processing Management) scaleout that is part of the core UIMA
Framework. For more information, please visit:

http://uima.apache.org/doc-uimaas-what.html

This release contains a number of improvements and bug fixes. Notable
updates
in this release include:

- Replaced Activemq 5.7.0 with 5.13.2
- Added dependency on UIMA SDK 2.8.1
- Fixed per CAS Performance Metrics breakdown for async deployments
- Added new feature to allow warm up of a JVM service instance before real
processing begins,  by feeding it a specified set of CASes before the
instance connects to the service input queue.
- Allow dd2spring to use a custom XML parser

For a complete list of bugs and improvements included in this release
please see
https://uima.apache.org/d/uima-as-2.8.1/issuesFixed/jira-report.html.

-- Jerry Cwiklik, for the Apache UIMA development team