[ANNOUNCE] Apache UIMA Java SDK 2.9.0 released

[Marshall Schor <sc...@apache.org>]

The Apache UIMA team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache UIMA Java
SDK, version 2.9.0.  This release adds two new features and fixes a number of
bugs and compatibility issues.

Apache UIMA <http://uima.apache.org> is a component architecture and framework
for the analysis of unstructured content like text, video and audio data.

The new features include:
 -- 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.

 -- 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.

The Eclipse tooling plugins were updated to work with the current Eclipse (Neon)
release.

 -Marshall Schor, for the Apache UIMA development team