BaseX-Announce September 2017

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Moving on to Java 8?
by Christian Grün 27 Sep '17

27 Sep '17

Dear all, Java 9 has just been released. As you may know, the BaseX code base is still compatible with Java 7, because version 7 is still used in the wild (we even got various user complaints when we upgraded from Java 6 just a few years ago). There are several reasons why we will move along to Java 8 in the near future: * It is more and more unsafe to use Java 7, because Oracle has stopped support two years ago. * From the developer point of view, there are only advantages when working with more recent versions of a software: newer language features and standard libraries can be used, the code base can be reduced, etc. * We would like to switch to the newest version of Jetty, which requires Java 8. Before we approach further, we are interested in hearing your reactions: Do you still work with Java 7? Would some of you require longtime support for Java 7? Thanks in advance and all the best, Christian

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BaseX 8.6.7
by Christian Grün 21 Sep '17

21 Sep '17

Hi all, As we’ll tackle BaseX 8.7 in the next weeks, we’ve released yet another patch release today [1]. As usual, it contains minor performance tweaks (better typing in FLWOR expressions) and bug fixes (pre-evaluation of fn:tail, GUI XQuery highlighting). Have fun, Christian [1] http://basex.org/download/

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BaseX-Announce September 2017