Apache Tika

Apache Tika 2.1.0

The most notable changes in Tika 2.1.0 over the previous release are:

Improved packaging for tika-parsers-extended. Use the tika-parser-scientific-package and tika-parser-sqlite3-package artifacts if you want fat jars with dependencies. (TIKA-3510)
Tika app writes UTF-8 when an encoding is not specified; the legacy behavior was UTF-8 on Mac OS, but System default on other OSs (TIKA-3515).
Change the default rendering strategy for PDFs from NO_TEXT to ALL (TIKA-3520).Other changes:
Fixed bug that pointed to the wrong tessdata directory if the user specified a tesseract path but not also a tessdata path (TIKA-3518).
Fixed bug in Icu4j's encoding detector where it would return non-standard names for charsets, e.g. IBM424_rtl is now returned as IBM424 (TIKA-3516).
Add a simple UrlFetcher in tika-core as a basic alternative to tika-fetcher-http (TIKA-3527).
Add tika-pipes support for Google Cloud Storage (TIKA-3524).
Fix markup ordering errors in xhtml output for ODT files (TIKA-2242).
Fix serialization of embedded docs in OpenSearch emitter and fix embedded documents not being indexed in some use-cases in the Solr emitter (TIKA-3490).
Add pipesClientId system property to PipesServer so that each forked process can log to its own logger (TIKA-3480).
Add DateNormalizingMetadataFilter let users ensure that all dates emitted to Solr/OpenSearch are in UTC. Users can configure which timezone they'd like to use in cases where the file format does not store a timezone (TIKA-3496).

The following people have contributed to Tika 2.1.0 by submitting or commenting on the issues resolved in this release: