Apache Tika – Apache Tika 1.18

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over the previous release are:</p> <ul> <li>Upgrade to Apache POI 4.0.1 (<a class="externalLink" href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-2751">TIKA-2751</a>).</li> <li>Integrate/parameterize new angles handling in PDFBox (<a class="externalLink" href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-2779">TIKA-2779</a>).</li> <li>Upgrade to PDFBox 2.0.13 (<a class="externalLink" href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-2788">TIKA-2788</a>).</li> <li>Prevent content within <i>style/</i> and <i>script/</i> elements to be written in the ToTextContentHandler (<a class="externalLink" href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-2550">TIKA-2550</a>).</li> <li>Switch child to parent communication to a shared memory-mappedfile in tika-server's -spawnChild mode.</li> <li>Fix bug in tika-server when run in legacy mode (not -spawnChild) that caused it to return 503 on documents submitted after it hit an OutOfMemoryError (<a class="externalLink" href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-2776">TIKA-2776</a>).</li> <li>Upgrade jaxb-runtime and javax.activation (<a class="externalLink" href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-2778">TIKA-2778</a>).</li> <li>tika-app in batch mode now requires an interrupt or kill signal to the parent process to stop the parent and the child processes (<a class="externalLink" href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-2780">TIKA-2780</a>).</li> <li>Bulk upgrade of dependencies (<a class="externalLink" href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-2775">TIKA-2775</a>).</li> <li>Improve language id efficiency in tika-eval (<a class="externalLink" href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-2777">TIKA-2777</a>).</li> <li>25.2 (<a class="externalLink" href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-2773">TIKA-2773</a>).</li> <li>Remove duplication of notes in PPT slides (<a class="externalLink" href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-2735">TIKA-2735</a>)</li> <li>Use -javaHome or $JAVA_HOME (if they exist) when spawning child in tika-server's -spawnChild mode.</li></ul> <p>The following people have contributed to Tika 1.20 by submitting or commenting on the issues resolved in this release:</p> <ul> <li>Boris Petrov</li> <li>Dave Meikle</li> <li>feng ye</li> <li>Hans Brende</li> <li>Jeroen</li> <li>Julien Massiera</li> <li>Kristen Cheung</li> <li>Lewis John McGibbney</li> <li>Mario Bisonti</li> <li>Markus Jelsma</li> <li>Nick Sincaglia</li> <li>Ronan O'Sullivan</li> <li>Tim Allison</li></ul> <p>See <a class="externalLink" href="https://s.apache.org/fScy">https://s.apache.org/fScy</a> for more details on these contributions.</p></div> </div> <div id="sidebar"> <div id="navigation"> <h5>Apache Tika</h5> <ul> <li class="none"> <a href="../index.html">Introduction</a> </li> <li class="none"> <a href="../download.html">Download</a> </li> <li class="none"> <a href="../contribute.html">Contribute</a> </li> <li class="none"> <a 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