[ANNOUNCE] Apache UIMA uimaFIT version 3.4.0 released

[Richard Eckart de Castilho <re...@apache.org>]

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The Apache UIMA team is pleased to announce the release of 

Apache UIMA uimaFIT, version 3.4.0.

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 is feature and bugfix release.

## What's Changed

**Improvements**
* ⭐️ Issue #195: Detect descriptors via SPI
* ⭐️ Issue #196: Provide OSGI metadata in JARs
* ⭐️ Issue #205: Managed CASes in tests should consider validators
* ⭐️ Issue #209: Ability to override validator for a test
* ⭐️ Issue #211: Conveniently skip validation
* ⭐️ Issue #215: Improve descriptor scanning performance when there are many classloaders
* ⭐️ Issue #220: Add getType signature accepting a type system

**Bugs fixed**
* 🦟 Issue #207: Cannot override CAS content set in a BeforeEach method
* 🦟 Issue #213: Avoid broken typesystem when using ManagedCas

**Refactorings**

* ⚙️ Issue #198: Remove version overrides in Maven plugin modules
* 🩹 Issue #218: Update dependencies

See the release notes for more details: https://github.com/apache/uima-uimafit/blob/rel/uimafit-3.4.0/RELEASE_NOTES.md

You can download the new release from the UIMA web site or use it via Maven Central:

* https://uima.apache.org/downloads.cgi
* https://search.maven.org/search?q=g:org.apache.uima%20AND%20v:3.4.0


Please send feedback via the Apache UIMA project mailing lists.

- -- Richard Eckart de Castilho, for the Apache UIMA development team.
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