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                       Apache Tika 0.8
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Apache Tika 0.8


   The most notable changes in Tika 0.8 over the previous release are:
   
      * Language identification is now dynamically configurable, 
        managed via a config file loaded from the classpath. 
        ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-490}TIKA-490}})
        
      * Tika now supports parsing Feeds by wrapping the underlying
        Rome library. ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browseTIKA-466}TIKA-466}})
        
      * A quick-start guide for Tika parsing was contributed. 
        ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-464}TIKA-464}})
      
      * An approach for plumbing through XHTML attributes was added. 
        ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-379}TIKA-379}})
      
      * Media type hierarchy information is now taken into account when
        selecting the best parser for a given input document. 
        ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-298}TIKA-298}})
        
      * Support for parsing common scientific data formats including netCDF
        and HDF4/5 was added 
        ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-400}TIKA-400}} and 
        {{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-399}TIKA-399}}).
        
      * Unit tests for Windows have been fixed, allowing TestParsers
        to complete. 
        ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-398}TIKA-398}})
   

   The following people have contributed to Tika 0.8 by submitting or
   commenting on the issues resolved in this release:

      * Łukasz Wiktor
      
      * Adam Wilmer
      
      * Alex Baranau
      
      * Alex Ott
      
      * André Ricardo
      
      * Andrey Barhatov
      
      * Andrey Sidorenko
      
      * Antoni Mylka
      
      * Arturo Beltran
      
      * Attila Király
      
      * Brad Greenlee
      
      * Bruno Dumon
      
      * Chris A. Mattmann
      
      * Chris Bamford
      
      * Christophe Gourmelon
      
      * Dave Meikle
      
      * David Weekly
      
      * Dmitry Kuzmenko
      
      * Erik Hetzner
      
      * Geoff Jarrad
      
      * Gerd Bremer
      
      * Grant Ingersoll
      
      * Jan Høydahl
      
      * Jean-Philippe Ricard
      
      * Jeremias Maerki
      
      * Joao Garcia
      
      * Jukka Zitting
      
      * Julien Nioche
      
      * Ken Krugler
      
      * Liam O'Boyle
      
      * Mads Hansen
      
      * Marcel May
      
      * Markus Goldbach
      
      * Martijn van Groningen
      
      * Maxim Valyanskiy
      
      * Mike Hays
      
      * Miroslav Pokorny
      
      * Nick Burch
      
      * Otis Gospodnetic
      
      * Peter van Raamsdonk
      
      * Peter Wolanin
      
      * Peter_Lenahan@ibi.com
      
      * Piotr Bartosiewicz
      
      * Radek
      
      * Rajiv Kumar
      
      * Reinhard Schwab
      
      * rick cameron
      
      * Robert Muir
      
      * Sanjeev Rao
      
      * Simon Tyler
      
      * Sjoerd Smeets
      
      * Slavomir Varchula
      
      * Staffan Olsson
      
      * Tom De Leu
      
      * Uwe Schindler
      
      * Victor Kazakov

   See {{http://s.apache.org/ab0}} for more details on these contributions.