Announcement: LanguageTool 2.8

I’m pleased to announce the release of LanguageTool 2.8. As usual, it is available for download at http://www.languagetool.org. If you’re using the LibreOffice/OpenOffice add-on you can also make the update directly from the extension manager (right mouse button → Update).

Changes include:

  • Many updates for the error detection rules for Breton, Catalan, Dutch, English, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, and Ukrainian
  • Several bug fixes
  • Java API: removed deprecated methods

Please see http://www.languagetool.org/download/CHANGES.txt for a complete list of changes.

SHA256 checksums:
2d4d38dc6aeab828654fbb6bd805253c22c1c463c2adcfd2379879c9dfa026f3 LanguageTool-2.8.zip
8faccacf82c84d67ee89a35b31f70aebd6a5ac2ef8c5cfa399a2ba3e62b11edd LanguageTool-2.8.oxt

Regards
Daniel

I am trying to install (update from 2.1) and get these errors:

(same for 2.7)

(com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException) { { Message = “[jni_uno bridge error] UNO calling Java method writeRegistryInfo: non-UNO exception occurred: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/languagetool/openoffice/Main : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0\X000ajava stack trace:\X000ajava.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/languagetool/openoffice/Main : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0\X000a\X0009at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)\X000a\X0009at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:637)\X000a\X0009at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:621)\X000a\X0009at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)\X000a\X0009at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283)\X000a\X0009at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58)\X000a\X0009at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197)\X000a\X0009at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)\X000a\X0009at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)\X000a\X0009at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)\X000a\X0009at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:295)\X000a\X0009at java.net.FactoryURLClassLoader.loadClass(URLClassLoader.java:627)\X000a\X0009at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)\X000a\X0009at com.sun.star.comp.loader.RegistrationClassFinder.find(RegistrationClassFinder.java:52)\X000a\X0009at com.sun.star.comp.loader.JavaLoader.writeRegistryInfo(JavaLoader.java:399)\X000a”, Context = (com.sun.star.uno.XInterface) @0 } }

Seems your version of Java is not Java 7 or 8. Please also see Support : LanguageTool