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Apache Tika 1.9

   The most notable changes in Tika 1.9 over the previous release are:

    * The ability to use the cTAKES clinical text knowledge extraction system for 
      biomedical data is now included as a Tika parser 
      ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1645}TIKA-1645}}, 
      {{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1642}TIKA-1642}}).

    * Tika-server allows a user to specify the Tika config from the command line 
      ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1652}TIKA-1652}}, 
      {{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1426}TIKA-1426}}).

    * Matlab file detection has been improved 
      ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1634}TIKA-1634}}).

    * The EXIFTool was added as an External parser 
      ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1639}TIKA-1639}}).

    * If FFMPEG is installed and on the PATH, it is a usable Parser in Tika 
      now ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1510}TIKA-1510}}).

    * Fixes have been applied to the ExternalParser to make it functional 
      ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1638}TIKA-1638}}).

    * Tika service loading can now be more verbose with the 
      org.apache.tika.service.error.warn system property 
      ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1636}TIKA-1636}}).

    * Tika Server now allows for metadata extraction from remote
      URLs and in addition it outputs the detected language as a
      metadata field ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1625}TIKA-1625}}).

    * OUTPUT_FILE_TOKEN not being replaced in ExternalParser contributed by Pascal 
      Essiembre ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1620}TIKA-1620}}).

    * Tika REST server now supports language identification 
      ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1622}TIKA-1622}}).

    * All of the example code from the Tika in Action book has been donated to Tika 
      and added to tika-examples 
      ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1562}TIKA-1562}}).

    * Tika server now logs errors determining ContentDisposition
      ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1621}TIKA-1621}}).

    * An algorithm for using Byte Histogram frequencies to construct
      a Neural Network and to perform MIME detection was added
      ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1582}TIKA-1582}}).

    * A Bayesian algorithm for MIME detection by probabilistic
      means was added 
      ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1517}TIKA-1517}}).

    * Tika now incorporates the Apache Spatial Information
      System capability of parsing Geographic ISO 19139
      files 
      ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-443}TIKA-443}}). 
      It can also detect those files as well.

    * Update the MimeTypes code to support inheritance
      ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1535}TIKA-1535}}).

    * Provide ability to parse and identify Global Change
      Master Directory Interchange Format (GCMD DIF)
      scientific data files 
      ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1532}TIKA-1532}}).

    * Improvements to detect CBOR files by extension 
      ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1610}TIKA-1610}}).

    * Change xerial.org's sqlite-jdbc jar to "provided" 
      ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1511}TIKA-1511}}).
      Users will now need to add sqlite-jdbc to their classpath for
      the Sqlite3Parser to work.

    * ExternalParser.check now catches (suppresses) SecurityException
      and returns false, so it's OK to run Tika with a security policy
      that does not allow execution of external processes 
      ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1628}TIKA-1628}}).


   The following people have contributed to Tika 1.9 by submitting or
   commenting on the issues resolved in this release:

    * Aakarsh Medleri Hire Math

    * Anya Yun Li

    * Arturo Beltran

    * Chris A. Mattmann

    * Gautham Gowrishankar

    * Giuseppe Totaro

    * Jan Kronquist
 
    * Ji-Hyun Oh

    * Konstantin Gribov

    * Lewis John McGibbney

    * Lorenz Leutgeb

    * Luke sh

    * Michael McCandless

    * Nick Burch

    * Pascal Essiembre

    * Pavel Micka

    * Selina Chu

    * Tim Allison

    * Tyler Palsulich

   See {{http://s.apache.org/4n1}} for more details on these contributions.