• [Python-announce] NLTK 3.6.4 released

    From Ilia Kurenkov@ilia.kurenkov@gmail.com to comp.lang.python.announce on Fri Oct 1 08:24:46 2021
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.python.announce

    We are making our debut on this mailing list with a release that fixes
    a security
    vulnerability <https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3828>.


    This release is intended to be a drop-in replacement. It contains the
    following changes:

    * deprecate nltk.usage(obj) in favor of help(obj)
    * resolve ReDoS vulnerability in Corpus Reader
    * solidify performance tests
    * improve phone number recognition in tweet tokenizer
    * refactor CISTEM stemmer for German
    * identify NLTK Team as the author
    * replace travis badge with github actions badge
    * add SECURITY.md

    Thanks to the following contributors to 3.6.4:
    Tom Aarsen, Mohaned Mashaly, Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos, purificant,
    Danny Sepler

    What is NLTK?
    The acronym stands for "Natural Language ToolKit". NLTK is educational
    software for those interested in natural language processing, though some
    have also incorporated it into commercial applications (and its License supports this). A key use case is processing standard datasets using the library's corpus readers, to support ML experiments in other packages.

    Find out more on http://www.nltk.org/
    --
    Ilia
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