[ANNOUNCE] Apache UIMA-AS 2.8.1 released

[Jaroslaw Cwiklik <cw...@apache.org>]

The Apache UIMA team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache
UIMA-AS version 2.8.1, which includes asynchronous scaleout capabilities
for the UIMA annotators.

UIMA-AS includes the base UIMA SDK and augments it with scaleout
capability; it is a next-generation replacement for the original CPM
(Collection Processing Management) scaleout that is part of the core UIMA
Framework. For more information, please visit:

http://uima.apache.org/doc-uimaas-what.html

This release contains a number of improvements and bug fixes. Notable
updates
in this release include:

- Replaced Activemq 5.7.0 with 5.13.2
- Added dependency on UIMA SDK 2.8.1
- Fixed per CAS Performance Metrics breakdown for async deployments
- Added new feature to allow warm up of a JVM service instance before real
processing begins,  by feeding it a specified set of CASes before the
instance connects to the service input queue.
- Allow dd2spring to use a custom XML parser

For a complete list of bugs and improvements included in this release
please see
https://uima.apache.org/d/uima-as-2.8.1/issuesFixed/jira-report.html.

-- Jerry Cwiklik, for the Apache UIMA development team