svn commit: r1757576 - /uima/uimaj/trunk/RELEASE_NOTES.html

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Author: schor
Date: Wed Aug 24 21:25:22 2016
New Revision: 1757576

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1757576&view=rev
Log:
no Jira update release notes for 2.9.0 - add new feature external config settings directly

Modified:
    uima/uimaj/trunk/RELEASE_NOTES.html

Modified: uima/uimaj/trunk/RELEASE_NOTES.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/uima/uimaj/trunk/RELEASE_NOTES.html?rev=1757576&r1=1757575&r2=1757576&view=diff
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 <h2><a id="major.changes">Major Changes in this Release</a></h2>
 <p><ul>
-<li>The Eclipse plugins are updated to work with the latest Eclipse (4.6, Neon) version.</li>
-<li>Added a new general-purpose CAS serialization/deserialization class CasIOUtils, with support for
-saving type system and index definition information along with the Feature Structures.</li>
-<li>Sofa mapping support for flow controllers corrected.</li>
-<li>Correct an stack overflow error in AnnotationViewer when switching Sofas.</li>
-<li>Correct 2 JSON serialization issues: mishandling of arrays of FeatureStructures having null entries,
+<li>Two new features were added.
+<ul><li>CasIOUtls - a collection of general-purpose CAS load/save utilities, with support for
+including the type system and index definition information along with the Feature Structures.</li>
+<li>A new set of APIs allowing use of the external shared settings files to be used directly, rather than only by 
+overriding UIMA configuration parameters. These APIs give direct access by the external settings file's key names to the 
+key values.</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>many bugs were fixed, including:
+<ul>
+<li>A regression which broke the unambiguous AnnotationIndex iterator in some cases.</li>
+<li>Updates to the Eclipse plugins to work with the latest Eclipse (4.6, Neon) version.</li>
+<li>Sofa mapping support for flow controllers.</li>
+<li>fixing a stack overflow error in AnnotationViewer when switching Sofas.</li>
+<li>fixing 2 JSON serialization issues: mishandling of arrays of FeatureStructures having null entries,
 and mishandling of namespaces for uninstantiated types found as supertypes.</li>
 </ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
 </p>
  
  <h3>API changes</h3>