The Apache UIMA team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache UIMA Java SDK, version 2.7.0. This release includes major function enhancements as well as bug fixes; it now requires Java 7 or later. Apache UIMA <http://uima.apache.org> is a component architecture and framework for the analysis of unstructured content like text, video and audio data. Some of the changes in this release are not backwards compatible, but there are special runtime flags that may be set to enable graceful upgrading. Please read the README and RELEASE_NOTES (available on the web-site, as part of the News article for this release) for more details. - Marshall Schor, for the Apache UIMA development team