John Langford ships polished Vowpal Wabbit 9.11.9, fixing the broken Maven Central release
JohnCLangford · x · 2026-09-28
- Vowpal Wabbit author John Langford released a "polished no-known-issues" 9.11.9 of the fast online learning library.
- 9.11.8 failed to publish Java artifacts to Maven Central because the -DperformRelease=true property activated Maven's built-in release-profile, attaching duplicate sources/javadoc jars; 9.11.9 moves the signing profile to its own property.
- Code is otherwise identical to 9.11.8: pip and NuGet users need not upgrade.
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