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  • Oct 2024 -- Release 3.0.0
  • Oct 2024 -- after the 3.0.0 release, move main branch to 4.x (and Java 17) and move tika-pipes to its own module or create a standalone tika-pipes project
  • ??? -- start 4.0.0-BETA releases ASAP
  • April 2025 (6 months from 3.x release) -- end support for 2.x (and thereby Java 8)
  • April 2025 (6 months from Oct 2024 or earlier???) January 2026 -- release 4.0.0
  • Oct 2025 (one year from 3June 2026 (6 months from the from 4.x release) -- end support for 3.x (and thereby Java 11)

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For some ideas on changes in 4.x, please join the conversation:

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serverASF JIRA
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyTIKA-4316


Tika VersionMinimum JREjavax vs jakartaAvailabilityPlanned EOLEOL
2.x8javaxnowApril 2025May 2025
3.x11jakartaOctober 2024
October 2025
June 2026 or 6 months after the release of 4.0.0, whichever comes first.
4.x17jakarta
April 2025

January 2026 (estimated)



5.x21jakarta???

6.x25jakarta???


***Please note that all dates are in Open Source Standard Time which does not always neatly align with traditional calendars.***For some of the planned

Metadata changes in 4.x

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In general, we're trying to ensure that we prefix all "user generated" metadata keys. There could be surprises if files overwrote existing metadata keys, like "Content-Type". The overarching issue tracking this is:

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serverASF JIRA
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyTIKA-

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4357
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  • HTML custom metadata keys are now prefixed with "html:" (TIKA-4357)
  • MAPI metadata prefix has changed to "mapi:" (TIKA-4360) and "mapi" has been removed from the key names.
  • "resourceName" has changed to "X-TIKA:resourceName" (side effect on TIKA-4410).
  • Unrecognized image metadata keys are now prefixed with "img:" (TIKA-4426).

Other metadata changes:

  • Office metadata prefix has changed from "meta" to "office" (TIKA-???).