The Apache Tika project is pleased to announce the release of Apache Tika 3.0.0. The release contents have been pushed out to the main Apache release site and to the Maven Central sync.
Apache Tika is a toolkit for detecting and extracting metadata and structured text content from various documents using existing parser libraries. Apache Tika 3.0.0 includes numerous bug fixes and dependency upgrades. The biggest change in the 3.x branch is that it requires >= Java 11. Details can be found in the changes file: https://www.apache.org/dist/tika/3.0.0/CHANGES-3.0.0.txt Apache Tika is available on the download page: https://tika.apache.org/download.html Apache Tika will be available shortly in binary form or for use using Maven 2 from the Central Repository: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/tika/ When downloading, please remember to verify the downloads using signatures found: https://www.apache.org/dist/tika/KEYS For more information on Apache Tika, visit the project home page: https://tika.apache.org/ NOTE: This release requires Java 11. We plan to support the 2.x branch (which requires Java 8) for six months after the release of 3.0.0. See: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TIKA/Tika+Roadmap+--+2.x%2C+3.x+and+Beyond -- Tim Allison, on behalf of the Apache Tika community
