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 Fast, state-of-the-art natural language processing pipeline. Commercial licenses available, or use under AGPL.
 
+Version 0.40 released 2014-02-01 
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 * Several bug-fixes have now been pushed to master
 * Tests fail on some platforms, including Travis CI, due to memory errors.