[ANNOUNCE] Apache Tika 1.2 released

[Chris Mattman <ma...@apache.org>]

(...apologies for the cross posting...)


The Apache Tika project is pleased to announce the release of Apache Tika

1.2. The release contents have been pushed out to the main Apache release

site and to the Maven Central sync, so the releases should be available as

soon as the mirrors get the syncs.


Apache Tika is a toolkit for detecting and extracting metadata and

structured text content from various documents using existing parser

libraries.


Apache Tika 1.2 contains a number of improvements and bug fixes. Details can

be found in the changes file:


http://www.apache.org/dist/tika/CHANGES-1.2.txt


Apache Tika is available in source form from the following download page:

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/tika/apache-tika-1.2-src.zip


Apache Tika is also available in binary form or for use using Maven 2 from

the Central Maven Repository:


http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/tika/


In the initial 48 hours, the release may not be available on all mirrors.

When downloading from a mirror site, please remember to verify the downloads

using signatures found on the Apache site:


http://www.apache.org/dist/tika/KEYS


For more information on Apache Tika, visit the project home page:


http://tika.apache.org/


-- Chris Mattmann (on behalf of the Apache Tika community)