BaseX-Announce April 2018

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BaseX 9.0: The Spring Edition!
by Christian Grün 31 Oct '18

31 Oct '18

Dear BaseX aficionados, We are very happy to announce the release of BaseX 9.0! The new version of our XML database system and XQuery 3.1 processor includes some great new features and a vast number of minor improvements and optimizations. It’s both the usage of BaseX in productive environments as well as the valuable feedback of our open source users that make BaseX better and better, and that allow and motivate us to keep going. Thanks to all of you! Along with the new release, we invite you to visit our relaunched homepage: http://basex.org/. Java 8 is now required to run BaseX. The most prominent features of Version 9.0 are: XQUERY - Comprehensive extensions in the internal XQuery optimizer framework - Dynamic hash joins rewritings of general comparisons - Register query jobs as persistent services - Process very large CSV files via the new CSV 'xquery' format - Update Module: higher-order functions for performing updates - Unified static typing, including maps, arrays and function items - COPYNODE: Lightweight copying of XML fragments - ENFORCEINDEX: Enforce rewriting for index access STORAGE - Improved database compression (short strings, whitespaces) WEB APPLICATIONS - Permissions layer: Unified definition of RESTXQ access patterns - RESTXQ: Full support for client- and server-side quality factors - REST: Run BaseX command scripts - Web server upgrade to Jetty 9 REPOSITORIES - Combined packaging mechanism (XQuery and Java) - Java Packaging: Bundling of additional libraries DISTRIBUTIONS - Revised detection and configuration of BaseX home directory - Windows executable: better detection of Java libraries DBA: BASEX DATABASE ADMINISTRATION - Improved editing and evaluation of XQuery modules - Revised file, session and job management More details can be found on our homepage. We are looking forward to your feedback. Enjoy and have fun, Christian, BaseX Team

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BaseX 9.0.1: Bug Fixes, Improvements
by Christian Grün 24 Apr '18

24 Apr '18

Dear all, Welcome to our first BaseX 9.01 maintenance release: http://basex.org/ An update is highly recommended: The major release had a critical bug, regarding the storage of short non-ASCII Unicode strings. This is the 9.0.1 changelog: CRITICAL BUG FIXES * Storage: short strings with extended Unicode characters fixed * XQuery: nested path optimizations reenabled (e.g. in functions) * XQuery: map:merge, size computation fixed * XQuery: node ordering across multiple database instances fixed IMPROVEMENTS * GUI: Better Java 9 support (DPI scaling, font rendering) * XQuery, collections: faster document root tests * New R client. Thanks Ben Engbers! * Linux: exec command used in startup scripts MINOR BUG FIXES * XQuery: Allow interruption of tail-call function calls * XQuery, HTTP parsing of content-type parameters * XQuery, restrict rewriting of filter to path expression * GUI: progress feedback when creating databases via double-click Have fun everyone, Christian

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BaseX-Announce April 2018