From 28100cbcd8be84e2d1a4450375992cc97869e26f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marc Ubaldino <ubaldino@mitre.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 01:41:20 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] just notes.

---
 README.md  | 14 +++++++++-----
 RELEASE.md |  9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d52d6105..c807bb71 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -184,24 +184,28 @@ Insert these dependencies into your POM depending on what you need.
   <dependency>
     <groupId>org.opensextant</groupId>
     <artifactId>opensextant-xponents-core</artifactId>
-    <version>3.6.6</version>
+    <version>3.7.0</version>
   </dependency>
 
   <!-- Xponents SDK API -->
   <dependency>
     <groupId>org.opensextant</groupId>
     <artifactId>opensextant-xponents</artifactId>
-    <version>3.6.6</version>
+    <version>3.7.0</version>
   </dependency>
 ```
 
 For reference: [OpenSextant Xponents on Maven](https://search.maven.org/search?q=a:opensextant-xponents).  For that matter, the only relevant artifacts in our `org.opensextant` group are:
 
+* `opensextant-xponents-core  3.7.*` - This Core API
+* `opensextant-xponents       3.7.*` - This Solr-based tagger SDK
+* `opensextant-xponents-xtext 3.6.*` - XText, the text extraction toolkit
+
+These libraries have been folded into Xponents Core library for long term Java sustainment; They 
+are rooted under `org.opensextant.`
+
 * `geodesy 2.0.1`   - Geodetic operations and coordinate system calculations
 * `giscore 2.0.2`  - GIS I/O
-* `opensextant-xponents-core  3.6.*` - This Core API
-* `opensextant-xponents       3.6.*` - This Solr-based tagger SDK
-* `opensextant-xponents-xtext 3.6.*` - XText, the text extraction toolkit
 
 
 
diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md
index 220630e8..343d63b5 100644
--- a/RELEASE.md
+++ b/RELEASE.md
@@ -3,6 +3,15 @@ RELEASES
 
 # 2024
 
+**Xponents 3.7**
+* **Core API**: Convergence
+  * Geodesy and GISCore geodetic libraries are now merged into the main Xponents Core
+  * Tests and some data for G/G modules are copied over... however the primary test data remains in their respective
+   repos `geodesy` and `giscore`.  
+  * Substantial JavaLint and security fixes were made to these 10 yr old libraries.  Also dependencies such as FindBugs
+  were replaced.
+
+
 **Xponents 3.6.7**: Springy
 * **Core API**
   * Building up `TextInput` class to carry better metrics to enable filters and language-specific tuning.