[ANNOUNCE] Apache UIMA-AS 2.4.2 released

[Jaroslaw Cwiklik <ui...@gmail.com>]

The Apache UIMA team is pleased to announce the release of version 2.4.2 of
the Apache
UIMA AS, which includes asynchronous scaleout capabilities for the UIMA
annotators.

The UIMA AS 2.4.2 binaries and source are available for download from:
http://uima.apache.org/downloads.cgi

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 version 5.4.1 with version 5.6.0

- Implemented PEAR support

- Added client-side callbacks to notify an application where a CAS is being
processed

- Refactored JMS Session expiration management to prevent broker OOMs

- Refactored UIMA-AS Async Aggregate to support processing multiple input
CASes in parallel

- Refactored CAS Accounting code to prevent loosing CASes in complex/nested
deployments

- Improved error handling and recovery

- Performance improvements

For a complete list of bugs and improvements included in this release
please see
http://uima.apache.org/d/uima-as-2.4.2/issuesFixed/jira-report.html.

-- Jerry Cwiklik, for the Apache UIMA Development Team