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Apache Tika 1.8

   The most notable changes in Tika 1.8 over the previous release are:

    * Fix null pointer when processing ODT footer styles ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1600}TIKA-1600}}).

    * Upgrade to com.drewnoakes' metadata-extractor to 2.0 and
      add parser for webp metadata ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1594}TIKA-1594}}).

    * Duration extracted from MP3s with no ID3 tags ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1589}TIKA-1589}}).

    * Upgraded to PDFBox 1.8.9 ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1575}TIKA-1575}}).

    * Tika now supports the IsaTab data standard for bioinformatics
      both in terms of MIME identification and in terms of parsing
      ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1580}TIKA-1580}}).

    * Tika server can now enable CORS requests with the command line
      "--cors" or "-C" option ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1586}TIKA-1586}}).

    * Update jhighlight dependency to avoid using LGPL license. Thank
      @kkrugler for his great contribution ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1581}TIKA-1581}}).
    
    * Updated HDF and NetCDF parsers to output file version in 
      metadata ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1578}TIKA-1578}} and {{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1579}TIKA-1579}}).

    * Upgraded to POI 3.12-beta1 ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1531}TIKA-1531}}).

    * Added tika-batch module for directory to directory batch
      processing.  This is a new, experimental capability, and the API will 
      likely change in future releases ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1330}TIKA-1330}}).

    * Translator.translate() Exceptions are now restricted to
      TikaException and IOException ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1416}TIKA-1416}}).

    * Tika now supports MIME detection for Microsoft Extended 
      Makefiles (EMF) ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1554}TIKA-1554}}).

    * Tika has improved delineation in XML and HTML MIME detection
      ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1365}TIKA-1365}}).

    * Upgraded the Drew Noakes metadata-extractor to version 2.7.2
      ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1576}TIKA-1576}}).

    * Added basic style support for ODF documents, contributed by
      Axel Dörfler ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1063}TIKA-1063}}).

    * Move Tika server resources and writers to separate
      org.apache.tika.server.resource and writer packages ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1564}TIKA-1564}}).

    * Upgrade UCAR dependencies to 4.5.5 ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1571}TIKA-1571}}).
    
    * Fix Paths in Tika server welcome page ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1567}TIKA-1567}}).

    * Fixed infinite recursion while parsing some PDFs ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1038}TIKA-1038}}).

    * XHTMLContentHandler now properly passes along body attributes,
      contributed by Markus Jelsma ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-995}TIKA-995}}).

    * TikaCLI option --compare-file-magic to report mime types known to
      the file(1) tool but not known / fully known to Tika.

    * MediaTypeRegistry support for returning known child types.

    * Support for excluding (blacklisting) certain Parsers from being
      used by DefaultParser via the Tika Config file, using the new
      parser-exclude tag ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1558}TIKA-1558}}).

    * Detect Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Directory
      Interchange Format (DIF) files ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1561}TIKA-1561}}).

    * Tika's JAX-RS server can now return stacktraces for
      parse exceptions ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1323}TIKA-1323}}).

    * Added MockParser for testing handling of exceptions, errors
      and hangs in code that uses parsers ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1553}TIKA-1553}}).

    * The ForkParser service removed from Activator. Rollback of ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1354}TIKA-1354}}).

    * Increased the speed of language identification by 
      a factor of two -- contributed by Toke Eskildsen ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1549}TIKA-1549}}).

    * Added parser for Sqlite3 db files. BEWARE: the org.xerial 
      dependency includes native libs. Some users may need to 
      exclude this dependency or configure it specially for 
      their environment ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1511}TIKA-1511}}).

    * Use POST instead of PUT for tika-server form methods
      ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1547}TIKA-1547}}).

    * A basic wrapper around the UNIX file command was 
      added to extract Strings. In addition a parse to 
      handle Strings parsing from octet-streams using Latin1
      charsets as added ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1541}TIKA-1541}}, {{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1483}TIKA-1483}}).

    * Add test files and detection mechanism for Gridded
      Binary (GRIB) files ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1539}TIKA-1539}}).

    * The RAR parser was updated to handle Chinese characters 
      using the functionality provided by allowing encoding to
      be used within ZipArchiveInputStream ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-936}TIKA-936}}).

    * Fix out of memory error in surefire plugin ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1537}TIKA-1537}}).

    * Build a parser to extract data from GRIB formats ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1423}TIKA-1423}}).

    * Upgrade to Commons Compress 1.9 ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1534}TIKA-1534}}).

    * Include media duration in metadata parsed by MP4Parser ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1530}TIKA-1530}}).

    * Support password protected 7zip files (using a PasswordProvider,
      in keeping with the other password supporting formats) ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1521}TIKA-1521}}).

    * Password protected Zip files should not trigger an exception ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1028}TIKA-1028}}).


   The following people have contributed to Tika 1.8 by submitting or
   commenting on the issues resolved in this release:

    * Adam Lamar

    * Alejandro León Mora

    * Aleksandr Dubinsky

    * Andrew Hwang

    * Ann Burgess

    * Ben McCann

    * Chris A. Mattmann

    * David Pilato

    * Giuseppe Totaro

    * Hari Sekhon

    * Jan Goyvaerts

    * Juha Haaga

    * Karl Wright

    * Konstantin Gribov

    * Lewis John McGibbney

    * lixin

    * Luis Filipe Nassif

    * Luke sh

    * Markus Jelsma

    * Matt Sheppard

    * Max Daniline

    * Michael McCandless

    * mortee

    * Nick Burch

    * Oleg Oshmyan

    * Oskar Wickström

    * Pascal Essiembre

    * Rob Tulloh

    * Sean Zhao

    * Sergey Beryozkin

    * Shinichiro Abe

    * Tien Nguyen Manh

    * Tilman Hausherr

    * Tim Allison

    * Toke Eskildsen

    * Tyler Palsulich

    * Vineet Ghatge

   See {{http://s.apache.org/L6Z}} for more details on these contributions.