# Apache UIMA Ruta™ v2.8.1 Release Notes

## Contents

1. What is UIMA Ruta
2. Major Changes in this Release
3. How to Get Involved
4. How to Report Issues
5. List of JIRA Issues Fixed in this Release

## 1. What is UIMA Ruta?

Apache UIMA Ruta™ is a rule-based script language supported by Eclipse-based tooling. The language is designed to enable rapid development of text processing applications within Apache UIMA™. A special focus lies on the intuitive and flexible domain specific language for defining patterns of annotations. The Eclipse-based tooling for Ruta, called the Ruta Workbench, was created to support the user and to facilitate every step when writing Ruta rules. Both the Ruta rule language and the Ruta Workbench integrate smoothly with Apache UIMA.

## 2. Major Changes in this Release

UIMA Ruta Language and Analysis Engine:

- Fixed broken literal string matching.
- Fixed variable initialization with other variables.
- Fixed assignment of lists to variables.
- Fixed assignment of annotation comparison expression to variables.
- PARSE condition supports additional argument that represents the string to be parsed.

## 3. How to Get Involved

The Apache UIMA Ruta project really needs and appreciates any contributions, including documentation help, source code and feedback. If you are interested in contributing, please visit https://uima.apache.org/get-involved.html.

## 4. How to Report Issues

The Apache UIMA project uses JIRA for issue tracking. Please report any issues you find at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/uima

## 5. List of JIRA Issues Fixed in this Release

Click issuesFixed/jira-report.html for the list of issues fixed in this release.