This pages plans and list the task which must be done to make the 1.5.3 release.

Release plan

We should list here items which should go into this release, since we didn't really plan for this release, there is nothing to say here.

Release tasks

Tasks

Description

Comment

Responsible
Person

Done

Elect a release manager

 

 

William is the RM for this release

yes

Create a jira issue for the release

 

OPENNLP-561

Release Manager

yes

Asks on dev list to pick up tasks here

 

 

Release Manager

yes

Update the README file

 

 

William

yes

Create the test plan

 

Test Plan

William

yes

Prepare jira for the release

 

 

Release Manager

Yes

Update the jira version in the pom file

 

 

Jörn

Yes

Ensure you can build with Java 5

 

 

Release Manager

Yes

Do a trial build with -Papache-release

 

 

Release Manager

Yes

Create release candidate 1 and announce

 

 

Release Manager

Yes

Successful release vote on the opennlp-dev list to release

 

 

Release Manager

Yes

Write release announcement

 

 

William

Yes

Ask for release announcement review

 

 

Release Manager

Yes

Close the succesfull release vote

 

 

Release Manager

Yes

Add the distribution to the web site

 

 

Jörn

Yes

Update version on maven dependency page

 

 

Jörn

Yes

Upload the documentation

 

 

Jörn

Yes

Promote the maven staging repo

 

 

Jörn

Yes

Add release news item to web site

 

 

William

Yes

Send announcement mail

 

 

Release Manager

Yes

Update Jira version info

 

 

Release Manager

Yes

Close release jira issue

 

 

Release Manager

Yes

Release announcement mail

Please write the release announcement here, so it can be reviewed
by the team.

Announcement:

The Apache OpenNLP team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.5.3 of Apache OpenNLP.

The Apache OpenNLP library is a machine learning based toolkit for the processing of natural language text.
It supports the most common NLP tasks, such as tokenization, sentence segmentation, part-of-speech tagging,
named entity extraction, chunking, parsing, and coreference resolution.

The OpenNLP 1.5.3 binary and source distributions are available for download from our download page:http://opennlp.apache.org/cgi-bin/download.cgi

The OpenNLP library is distributed by Maven Central as well. See the Maven Dependency page for more details:http://opennlp.apache.org/maven-dependency.html

This release contains a couple of new features, improvements and bug fixes. The CLI
has been improved for a better consistency. Now the tools supports extensions that
can be configured from the model, including customized context generators and
validators.

Additionally the release contains the following noteworthy changes:

  • Porter Stemmer tool
  • L-BFGS parameter estimation
  • Improved documentation
  • Fine-grained POSTagger evaluation report
  • Improved support to load user provided feature generator and context validation
    classes from OSGi environment

A detailed list of the issues related to this release can be found in the release notes.

For a complete list of fixed bugs and improvements please see the RELEASE_NOTES
file included in the distribution.

--The Apache OpenNLP Team

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