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Lingua v0.6.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-01-05 // over 4 years ago

  • Languages

    • ➕ added 11 new languages: Armenian, Bosnian, Azerbaijani, Esperanto, Georgian, Kazakh, Macedonian, Marathi, Mongolian, Serbian, Ukrainian

    🔋 Features

    🚀 There are some breaking changes in this release:

    • 🚚 The support for MapDB has been removed. It did not provide enough advantages over Kotlin's lazy loading of language models. It used a lot of disc space and language detection became slow. With the long-term goal of creating a multiplatform library, only those features will be implemented in the future that support JavaScript as well.
    • 🚚 The dependency on the fastutil library has been removed. It did not provide enough advantages over Kotlin's lazy loading of language models.
    • 🚚 The method LanguageDetector.detectLanguagesOf(text: Iterable<String>) has been removed because the sorting order of the returned languages was undefined for input collections such as a HashSet. From now on, the method LanguageDetector.detectLanguageOf(text: String) will be the only one to be used.
    • The LanguageDetector can now be built with the following additional methods:
      • LanguageDetectorBuilder.fromIsoCodes639_1(vararg isoCodes: IsoCode639_1)
      • LanguageDetectorBuilder.fromIsoCodes639_3(vararg isoCodes: IsoCode639_3)
      • the following method has been removed: LanguageDetectorBuilder.fromIsoCodes(isoCode: String, vararg isoCodes: String)
    • 🚚 The Gson library has been replaced with kotlinx-serialization for the loading of the json language models. This results in a significant reduction of code and makes reflection obsolete, so the dependency on kotlin-reflect could be removed.

    👌 Improvements

    • The overall detection algorithm has been improved again several times to fix several detection bugs.