[ANNOUNCE] Apache UIMA Java SDK 2.6.0 released

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

The Apache UIMA Team is pleased to announce the 2.6.0 release of the UIMA Java
SDK version 2.6.0.

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

This release of the UIMA Java SDK supports large memory/ large multi-core machines,
with various improvements to synchronization, lock contention, and locality of
reference to optimize
memory bandwidth in the presence of non-uniform memory access speeds.  In
addition, embedders of the framework
can now choose to run initialization of UIMA components that share a common
Resource Manager
and/or common UIMA Context, on multiple threads, concurrently.  CASes which are
not being modified can
be accessed (read-only) by multiple threads, simultaneously.  As usual, this
release also includes some bugs fixes.

This release only includes the UIMA Java SDK, and is backward compatible with
the previous release, except it now requires Java version 1.6 or later.

-- Marshall Schor, for the Apache UIMA development team