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Apache Tika 1.4

   The most notable changes in Tika 1.4 over the previous release are:

  * Removed a test HTML file with a poorly chosen GPL text in it 
    ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1129}TIKA-1129}}).

  * Improvements to tika-server to allow it to produce text/html and
    text/xml content ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1126}TIKA-1126}}, 
    {{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1127}TIKA-1127}}).

  * Improvements were made to the Compressor Parser to handle g'zipped files
    that require the decompressConcatenated option set to true 
    ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1096}TIKA-1096}}).

  * Addressed a typographic error that was preventing from detection of 
    awk files 
    ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1081}TIKA-1081}}).

  * Added a new end-point to Tika's JAX-RS REST server that only detects
    the media-type based on a small portion of the document submitted
   ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1047}TIKA-1047}}).

  * RTF: Ordered and unordered lists are now extracted 
   ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1062}TIKA-1062}}).

  * MP3: Audio duration is now extracted 
    ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-991}TIKA-991}})

  * Java .class files: upgraded from ASM 3.1 to ASM 4.1 for parsing
    the Java bytecodes ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1053}TIKA-1053}}).

  * Mime Types: Definitions extended to optionally include Link (URL) and
    UTI, along with details for several common formats 
   ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1012}TIKA-1012}} / 
    {{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1083}TIKA-1083}})

  * Exceptions when parsing OLE10 embedded documents, when parsing
    summary information from Office documents, and when saving
    embedded documennts in TikaCLI are now logged instead
    of aborting extraction 
    ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1074}TIKA-1074}})

  * MS Word: line tabular character is now replaced with newline
    ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1128}TIKA-1128}})

  * XML: ElementMetadataHandlers can now optionally accept duplicate
    and empty values 
    ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1133}TIKA-1133}})

   The following people have contributed to Tika 1.4 by submitting or
   commenting on the issues resolved in this release:

      * Axel Dörfler

      * Bernhard Berger

      * Chris A. Mattmann
   
      * Dave Meikle

      * David Morana

      * Giuseppe Totaro

      * Gregory Chanan

      * Jérémie Lesage

      * Jukka Zitting
 
      * Konstantin Privezentsev

      * Lee Graber
 
      * Lewis John McGibbney

      * Marco Quaranta

      * Markus Jelsma

      * Michael McCandless

      * Nick Burch

      * Raimund Merkert

      * Ray Gauss II

      * Ryan McKinley

      * T. Schmidt

      * Vincent Massol

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