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Local override: $TIKA_SKILLS_LOCAL/update-site-for-release/LOCAL.md (default ~/.tika-skills),
read after this file, wins on conflict.
Update the Tika website for a release
Step 17 ("Update Tika site") of the Release Process
(https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/spaces/TIKA/pages/109454070/Release+Process).
Assumes the release (tag, artifacts, VOTE, dist promotion) is done; covers the
website only.
First: cd $SITE && svn update. The checkout is usually behind (docs
republishes, logo/security edits land between releases); a stale base only
surfaces at the very end, after the 67 MB commit has uploaded, as
E155011 ... is out of date, and the whole transaction rolls back.
Set these first:
$SITE — tika-site SVN checkout (not git): src/site/ (sources) +
publish/ (generated, SVN-tracked, served; mvn install regenerates it and
auto-runs svn add --force publish via antrun).
$SCRATCH — release working dir: unzipped src release, CHANGES-<NEW>.txt,
built javadoc.
Scripts: ./scripts/. Local paths + toolchain (Maven binary, JDKs) live in a
private companion skill under ~/.claude/skills/.
[HUMAN] gates — never do these yourself: final svn commit (outward-facing,
irreversible), JIRA "release", s.apache.org shortlink, announce emails. Prepare
everything, show svn status, hand off.
0. Inputs + release track
Two supported tracks since 4.0.0 (2026-08-21): 4.x is the current line,
3.x is the maintenance line. Which track a release is on decides the
process; both tracks are "stable" — there is no preview slot unless a future
5.x preview reintroduces one.
| Input | Example | Notes |
|---|
NEW_VERSION | 4.0.1 | the release |
RELEASE_TRACK | 4.x | 4.x or 3.x (maintenance) |
PREV_TAG / NEW_TAG | 4.0.0-rc1 / 4.0.1 | git tags, for the GitHub contributor query |
JIRA fixVersion | 4.0.1 | may differ from the label (pre-releases often use the base version) |
CHANGES file | $SCRATCH/CHANGES-4.0.1.txt | notable-changes source |
| src release zip | tika-<NEW>-src.zip | javadoc source (both tracks) |
| release date | 2026-08-21 | doap.rdf + news blurb |
Confirm current values in pom.xml (repo root — tika.stable.version = 4.x
line, tika.maintenance.version = 3.x line).
Before starting, check the final git tag exists (git ls-remote --tags https://github.com/apache/tika | grep <NEW>). The vote passes on an -rcN tag
and nothing creates the plain <NEW> tag; 4.1.0 shipped with only 4.1.0-rc3.
Ask the RM to tag the rc commit (git tag <NEW> <NEW>-rcN^{} + push) — the
contributor query, the docs branch and the next release's PREV_TAG all want it.
Until then use the rc tag for --tag.
| Step | 4.x track | 3.x maintenance track |
|---|
pom.xml <parent><version> | leave at newest 3.x | → <NEW> (must stay a 3.x parent — Java 11 build) |
pom.xml tika.stable.version | → <NEW> | leave |
pom.xml tika.maintenance.version | leave | → <NEW> |
src/site/apt/<NEW>/ | only index.apt (Changes) | full 8-file set (scaffold from prev 3.x) |
site.xml entry | sub-menu linking docs/<X.Y>.x/ pages + Changes + api | full legacy sub-menu, expanded |
| formats.apt | n/a — docs/.../formats.adoc; its generated partial is test-enforced | regenerate from tika-app jar |
| javadoc | clean install -Pfast + javadoc:aggregate → publish/<NEW>/api (step 7) | same |
| Antora docs | new minor → new docs/<X.Y>.x branch; patch → republish same branch (step 7) | n/a |
| Download page | automatic | automatic |
doap.rdf, index.apt.vm news, verify, publish are common to both.
URL scheme (decided 2026-08-19): Antora docs are per-minor (/docs/4.0.x/);
the apt Changes page and javadoc are per-release (/4.0.0/, /4.0.0/api/) —
javadocs are exact-version artifacts.
1. pom.xml versions (repo root) [AGENT]
- 4.x: bump
<tika.stable.version> to <NEW>.
- 3.x: bump
<tika.maintenance.version> and <parent><version> to <NEW>.
<parent> supplies build config only (no site content references it since
4.0.0). It must stay on the newest 3.x parent: the 4.x parent enforces
Java 17, but maven-site-plugin 3.4 needs the Java 11 build (step 8).
Download page auto-reads these — no manual edit. (download.apt.vm also derives
$docsLine = 4.1.x from tika.stable.version for its Antora links; check the
artifact list against dist/release/tika/<NEW>/ if the distribution set changed.)
2. src/site/site.xml menu [AGENT]
Current 4.x + current 3.x expanded; older = collapse="true".
- 4.x, new minor: new expanded block at the top; links go into the Antora
tree plus the per-release Changes/api (repoint
docs/<old>.x → docs/<new>.x
when a new minor supersedes; a patch release only updates the Changes/api
version numbers in the hrefs):
<item name="Apache Tika 4.0.0" href="docs/4.0.x/index.html">
<item name="Documentation Home" href="docs/4.0.x/index.html"/>
<item name="Supported Formats" href="docs/4.0.x/formats.html"/>
<item name="Using Tika" href="docs/4.0.x/using-tika/index.html"/>
<item name="Getting Started (Java API)" href="docs/4.0.x/using-tika/java-api/getting-started.html"/>
<item name="Pipes" href="docs/4.0.x/pipes/index.html"/>
<item name="Configuration" href="docs/4.0.x/configuration/index.html"/>
<item name="Migrating to Tika 4.x" href="docs/4.0.x/migration-to-4x/index.html"/>
<item name="Changes" href="4.0.0/index.html"/>
<item name="API Documentation" href="4.0.0/api/"/>
</item>
- 3.x: new expanded block above the previous 3.x; add
collapse="true"
to the old block:
<item name="Apache Tika 3.3.2" href="3.3.2/index.html">
<item name="Getting Started" href="3.3.2/gettingstarted.html"/>
<item name="Supported Formats" href="3.3.2/formats.html"/>
<item name="Parser API" href="3.3.2/parser.html"/>
<item name="Parser 5min Quick Start Guide" href="3.3.2/parser_guide.html"/>
<item name="Content and Language Detection" href="3.3.2/detection.html"/>
<item name="Configuring Tika" href="3.3.2/configuring.html"/>
<item name="Usage Examples" href="3.3.2/examples.html"/>
<item name="API Documentation" href="3.3.2/api/"/>
</item>
3. Per-version apt docs src/site/apt/<NEW>/ [AGENT]
4.x — create only index.apt (the Changes page; title Apache Tika <NEW>;
fill step 4). No other apt files — everything else lives in the Antora docs.
3.x — scaffold (these docs are version-string-identical across 3.x):
./scripts/scaffold-stable-version.sh $SITE 3.3.1 3.3.2
Copies+bumps configuring/detection/examples/parser/parser_guide/gettingstarted.apt. Then:
4. Per-version index.apt: notable changes + contributors [AGENT + HUMAN]
Shape (see src/site/apt/3.3.1/index.apt): license+title; "most notable changes…"
bullets; "The following people have contributed…" bullets; "See
{{https://s.apache.org/XXXX}} …".
Notable changes — review output, keep only notable items:
./scripts/extract-tika-issues.py CHANGES-3.3.2.txt out-3.3.2.apt 3.3.2
Mirrors CHANGES verbatim; TIKA-####/Github-#### auto-linked; ALL-CAPS headers
(incl. SERVER, PIPES AND OPERATIONS, INFERENCE (EXPERIMENTAL)) → apt sections;
apt markup chars in prose (<= 0, type->parser, {x}, [], ~35%) are
backslash-escaped — an unescaped < fails the site build with
Error parsing '.../index.apt': line [N] missing '>'; output is wrapped at 78
cols without splitting hyphenated words or links.
Contributors — candidate list, RM curates:
./scripts/extract-tika-contribs.py 3.3.2 --prev-tag 3.3.1 --tag 3.3.2 > contribs.txt
# beta (fixVersion differs from label):
# ./scripts/extract-tika-contribs.py 4.0.0 --prev-tag 3.3.1 --tag 4.0.0-beta-1
Merges JIRA (reporters/assignees/comment authors) + GitHub commit/PR authors
(uses gh auth; resolves logins→names; case-insensitive sort; filters bots/AI).
Over-reports drive-by commenters, misses GitHub-issue-only commenters. [HUMAN]
prune / normalise / add.
Shortlink [HUMAN] — s.apache.org/XXXX → the JIRA "issues fixed in <NEW>"
query; needs s.apache.org login. Ask the RM.
5. src/site/resources/doap.rdf [AGENT]
New <release> at the top. Ordering is by date, not version (a stable point
release can sit above an older-dated preview — 3.3.2/Jul-16 above 4.0.0-beta-1/Jul-3):
<release>
<Version>
<name>Apache Tika 3.3.2</name>
<created>2026-07-21</created>
<revision>3.3.2</revision>
</Version>
</release>
6. Home page src/site/apt/index.apt.vm [AGENT + HUMAN]
- New Latest News block at the top; its CHANGES link uses
dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/... (live mirror):
[21 July 2026: Apache Tika Release]
Apache Tika 3.3.2 has been released! <one or two sentence summary>.
Please see the {{{https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/tika/3.3.2/CHANGES-3.3.2.txt}CHANGES.txt}}
file for the full list of changes in the release and have a look at the download page for more information
on how to obtain Apache Tika 3.3.2.
- Repoint the superseded release's CHANGES link (its artifacts get
svn rm'd
from the live mirror at release): dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/tika/<PREV>/…
→ archive.apache.org/dist/tika/<PREV>/…. [HUMAN] confirm which version was
removed.
7. Docs / Javadoc
Javadoc — both tracks [AGENT]. NOT the wiki's javadoc:aggregate-no-fork (runs
against tika-parent, its relative <sourcepath> fails → No source files for package org.apache.tika; wrong goal, not a JDK issue). From the unzipped src
release (its ./mvnw is broken — use system mvn):
unzip tika-3.3.2-src.zip && cd tika-3.3.2
mvn clean install -Pfast # ~4 min; module artifacts + full dep classpath
mvn javadoc:aggregate # FORKING goal (NOT -no-fork)
mkdir -p $SITE/publish/3.3.2
mv target/reports/apidocs $SITE/publish/3.3.2/api
Both steps matter: without install javadoc dies on package org.slf4j does not exist; the forking aggregate (@aggregator) runs once on the root, -no-fork
breaks per-pom-module. 3.x: any modern JDK (11 and 25 verified); 4.x: Java 17+
(21 verified on 4.1.0, ~3,900 html / 67 MB). A -Pfast install that prints a
Felix/OSGi stack trace still succeeds — check the <NEW> artifacts landed in the
local repo, not the tail of the log. (tika-server
miredot docs discontinued — skip.)
4.x — Antora docs [AGENT]. Built from the tika git repo (main checkout),
not the src zip — the playbook pulls every docs/{0..9}* branch as a content
source. New minor: create docs/<X.Y>.x from the tag (or main), set
version: '<X.Y>.x' + tika-version and tika-javadoc-url attributes in that
branch's docs/antora.yml, and make sure main's antora.yml has prerelease: true
and its version/tika-version match main's new <revision> (the release
plugin bumps the poms, not antora.yml — after 4.1.0 main was 4.1.1-SNAPSHOT in
tika-parent/pom.xml but still 4.1.0-SNAPSHOT in antora.yml) [HUMAN commits].
Cut the branch from the release tag, not main: main's docs may already describe
post-release changes. Patch: commit doc changes + tika-version bump to the
existing branch (bump tika-javadoc-url too). Then:
cd tika-main
rm -rf docs/target/site # Antora never prunes: a stale <old>-SNAPSHOT dir from an earlier build gets published
./mvnw package -Papache-release -pl :tika-docs -DskipTests
./docs/publish-docs.sh $SITE/publish
Antora reads only LOCAL branches of the clone (a remote-only
origin/docs/4.0.x is ignored — verified on 4.1.0): before building, git branch docs/4.0.x origin/docs/4.0.x for every released line, and have main
checked out so HEAD supplies the SNAPSHOT. Run a trial build with the new
docs/<X.Y>.x checked out (its worktree = HEAD, so uncommitted antora.yml edits
are exercised) to validate before the human commits; do NOT publish that trial
output — it lacks the other versions, so the version dropdown, sitemap and
/docs redirect would be wrong.
publish-docs.sh copies target/site into publish/docs/, flattens URLs, rewrites
the search index (has its own guards). First 4.x publish after the SNAPSHOT era:
svn rm publish/docs/<old>-SNAPSHOT (nothing prunes it) and verify
publish/docs/index.html redirects to the released line, not a SNAPSHOT.
Full procedure: docs/modules/ROOT/pages/maintainers/site.adoc.
8. Build + verify [AGENT]
tika-site has no ./mvnw → system mvn. Build with Java 11 — it pins
maven-site-plugin 3.4 (2014), unreliable on newer JDKs; a Doxia error here means
wrong JDK, not a content problem (separate from step 7's JDK-agnostic javadoc).
cd "$SITE"
mvn clean install
ALWAYS clean install, never bare install — an incremental build leaves
publish/css/ stale → pages render with no CSS/sidebar. Fix is a clean
rebuild, not a CSS edit.
Build auto-copies target/site → publish/, strips timestamps, svn add --force publish. Check: new version in the menu; news + download versions right; pages
styled (CSS + sidebar); per-version pages + javadoc/Antora resolve. Preview:
mvn site:run → http://localhost:8080.
9. Stage + hand off the commit [HUMAN]
cd "$SITE"
svn status
svn add src/site/apt/<NEW> # + any other new files
# hand to the RM — do NOT run yourself:
# svn commit -m "Update website for <NEW> release."
Big-commit caveat (javadoc): publish/<NEW>/api is ~3,000 files / ~55 MB; a
single commit often times out / E000104 Connection reset by peer — this is
size, NOT auth (bad password = Authentication failed/403, and cached creds won't
re-prompt). Fixes:
http-timeout = 1800 in ~/.subversion/servers [global].
- Else commit the api in chunks, then the rest:
svn commit --depth=empty publish/<NEW> publish/<NEW>/api \
publish/<NEW>/api/org publish/<NEW>/api/org/apache \
publish/<NEW>/api/org/apache/tika -m "<NEW> site: api dir skeleton"
for d in publish/<NEW>/api/org/apache/tika/*/; do
svn commit "$d" -m "<NEW> javadoc: $(basename "$d")" || break # parser/ ~1,300 files
done
svn commit publish/<NEW>/api -m "<NEW> javadoc: remaining api files"
svn commit -m "Update website for <NEW> release."
- Atomic per invocation → a failed commit rolls back; retry. Locked (
E155004) →
svn cleanup.
10. Confirm published + re-kick [HUMAN]
svnwcsub maps /www/tika.apache.org ← %(ASF)s/tika/site/publish: only a commit
touching publish/ triggers a republish, and it publishes the whole tree at
HEAD. Verify (cache-buster hits the origin, not Varnish):
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" "https://tika.apache.org/<NEW>/index.html?cb=$(date +%s)"
Want 200. Still 404/old minutes later → the web-node svn up choked on the
big commit. Re-kick with a trivial whitespace commit to a file under
publish/ (e.g. a blank line in publish/index.html):
svn commit publish/index.html -m "Nudge svnwcsub to republish."
Re-fires svnwcsub → svn up to HEAD (harmless; next build regenerates it). A
commit outside publish/ won't trigger. Still stuck ~30 min → ping #asfinfra.
11. Post-site [HUMAN] (context)
Checklist
Troubleshooting
| Symptom | Cause | Fix |
|---|
aggregate-no-fork → No source files for package org.apache.tika | runs against tika-parent; relative <sourcepath> can't resolve | use forking javadoc:aggregate after clean install -Pfast (step 7) |
javadoc → package org.slf4j does not exist etc. | aggregate without a prior build → empty classpath | mvn clean install -Pfast first |
site build: Error parsing '.../index.apt': line [N] missing '>' | unescaped </> (e.g. <= 0, ->) in apt prose | backslash-escape (\<); bundled script does this |
| pages unstyled (no CSS/sidebar) | incremental install left publish/css/ stale | mvn clean install (never bare install) |
site-plugin / Doxia error on mvn install | maven-site-plugin 3.4 on too-new a JDK | build with Java 11 |
| notable-changes bullet split on a version number | old numeric heuristic (removed) | use the bundled script; re-run |
| contributors have bots/AI, or surname order | old behavior (fixed): filter + str.casefold sort | use bundled extract-tika-contribs.py; RM curates |
commit E175012 timed out / E000104 Connection reset | ~55 MB api tree too big for one transaction | http-timeout=1800; chunk the api/ (step 9). Size, not auth. |
commit Authentication failed / 403 | genuinely bad/expired credential | svn commit --username <you> to re-cache |
svn: E155004 working copy locked | prior commit died mid-transaction | svn cleanup, retry |
commit E155011 Directory ... is out of date | working copy behind HEAD | svn revert -R publish && svn update, re-run publish-docs.sh + mvn clean install, retry (fixed base only) |
committed, site still old even with ?cb= (origin 404s/old) | web-node svn up choked on the big commit | re-kick: whitespace commit under publish/ (step 10); stuck ~30 min → #asfinfra |
| home-page CHANGES link 404s for the previous release | it was svn rm'd from the live dist mirror | repoint to archive.apache.org/dist/tika/<prev>/CHANGES-<prev>.txt (step 6) |