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BaseX 12: The Summer Edition
by Christian Grün 26 Jun '25

26 Jun '25

Dear all, Version 12 marks a major leap forward for BaseX – our open-source XML framework, database engine, and XQuery 4.0 processor. This release introduces powerful new features, essential upgrades, and expanded standards support that will elevate how you build, query, and manage XML-driven applications. This is what you get: 🔧 Core Upgrades - Java 17: better performance, long-term support - Jetty 12: better compatibility, future-proofing ✨ XQuery features, 4.0 - Order-Preserving Maps: more intuitive & predictable data structures - Map performance: significantly leaner & faster, close to native Java - Arrays & sequences: Wrapping as arrays in constant time & vice versa - Pipeline Operator: clean, expressive queries with the -> operator - Typed constructs: structured data with item and record constructors - Stack Traces, finally block: better debugging, robust error-handling - While Clauses: better control flow in functional logic - Standardized CSV, JSON, and HTML Parsing, support for Validator.nu - Scripting: launch XQuery expressions as independent jobs - Profiler Optimizations: aggregation of profiled results 🔐 Security & Admin Enhancements - Automatic Admin Password Generation (first startup) - Log Filtering, Masking & Truncation: better control over logging Get the new version and check out our documentation for more details: https://basex.org https://docs.basex.org/main/Changelog Have fun, Your BaseX Team

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BaseX 11.9: More XQuery 4, more performance
by Christian Grün 30 Apr '25

30 Apr '25

Dear all, BaseX 11.9 is released, with many new XQuery 4.0 features and numerous performance tweaks. The new release will possibly be the last Java 11 release: Future relases will be based on Java 17. This is what you get: - [ADD] XQuery 4.0: %method annotation, try/finally - [ADD] XQFO 4.0: element-to-map(-plan), doc, function-identity - [ADD] Option LOGMASKIP: anonymize IP address - [ADD] prof:time, prof:memory: Aggregation performance measurements - [MOD] prof:variable: Complete listing of in-scope variables - [MOD] Arrays & maps, uniform data types: less memory consumption - [MOD] JSON, CSV, HTML representations: less memory consumption - [MOD] Records: Faster access to statically known entries - [MOD] Records: implicit record creation for statically parsed maps - [MOD] Sequences, arrays, maps: Unified low-level (un)boxing - [MOD] XQuery: faster 'instance of' type checks - [MOD] Arrays & maps: faster traversals and wildcard lookups - [MOD] GUI, Shift-ESC shortcut for stopping query - [FIX] Store is written again at shutdown time - [FIX] RESTXQ, %rest:single: null pointer exceptions - [FIX] html:doc: close stream For a preview of the upcoming 12 features, please visit the following page… https://docs.basex.org/12 …and have a look at our homepage to download the latest version: https://basex.org Have fun, Your BaseX Team

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BaseX 11.8: Lightning fast maps, new XQuery 4 features
by Christian Grün 20 Mar '25

20 Mar '25

We are delighted to announce BaseX 11.8, one more important step to the next major version. Here are the most significant changes: - [MOD] Lightning fast construction of ordered maps of all types - [MOD] fn:distinct-values, fn:duplicate-values: faster comparisons - [MOD] Faster map comparison (ordered and unordered) - [ADD] New function util:values-except - [ADD] XQuery 4.0 functionality (functions, %method annotation) - [MOD] XQuery fold functions: more early exits - [MOD] XQuery, fn:parse-xml: options added - [MOD] prof:variables: Better capture of in-scope variables - [FIX] Stricter permission checks when calling built-in functions For a preview of the upcoming 12 features, please visit the following page… https://docs.basex.org/12 …and have a look at our homepage to download the latest version: https://basex.org Have fun, Your BaseX Team

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BaseX 9.6: The Summer Edition
by Christian Grün 28 Nov '24

28 Nov '24

Dear all, We provide you with a new and fresh version of BaseX, our open source XML framework, database system and XQuery 3.1 processor: https://basex.org/ Apart from our main focus (query rewritings and optimizations), we have added the following enhancements: XQUERY: MODULES, FEATURES - Archive Module, archive:write: stream large archives to file - SQL Module: support for more SQL types - Full-Text Module, ft:thesaurus: perform Thesaurus queries - Fulltext, fuzzy search: specify Levenshtein limit - UNROLLLIMIT option: control limit for unrolling loops XQUERY: JAVA BINDINGS - Java objects of unknown type are wrapped into function items - results of constructor calls are returned as function items - the standard package "java.lang." has become optional - array arguments can be specified with the middle dot notation - conversion can be controlled with the WRAPJAVA option - better support for XQuery arrays and maps WEB APPLICATIONS - RESTXQ: Server-Timing HTTP headers are attached to the response For a more comprehensive list of added and updated features, look into our documentation (docs.basex.org) and check out the GitHub issues (github.com/BaseXdb/basex/issues). Have fun, Your BaseX Team

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BaseX 11: The XMLPrague 2024 Edition
by Christian Grün 06 Jun '24

06 Jun '24

Dear all, We’ve been hard at work finalizing version 11 of BaseX, our open source XML framework, database system, and XQuery processor. First, we have revised our documentation, which is now generated with RESTXQ: https://docs.basex.org/ Next, you can now visit BXFiddle to launch XQuery and Invisible XML online: https://fiddle.basex.org/ Finally, we have added and updated valuable features to help you tackle your daily data challenges: STORAGE • Key/value Store: Better compactification when storing values • CSV/JSON/XML parsing: reduced memory consumption XQUERY • First release with new 4.0 features • Numerous new built-in functions (standard, maps, arrays, math) • Updates: Multiple targets in rename/replace/insert expressions • New custom functions: archive:refresh, validate:xsd-init, xslt:init • Full support for Invisible XML. GENERAL • GUI: Full Unicode character support • Web Server: Upgrade to Jetty 11 • Command-Line: New options -C, -Q, -W • Options: WRITESTORE, writes store to disk at shutdown time We took the opportunity of the version jump to drop various XQuery functions in favor of new 4.0 standard functions. Database storage has not changed. A big thank you to Gunther Rademacher, who is now helping us to make BaseX better every day. Thanks to all of you for your continuous support, Have fun with the new release, Your BaseX Team

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BaseX 10.7: The Summer Edition
by Christian Grün 04 Aug '23

04 Aug '23

Dear all, We’re pleased to announce version 10.7 of BaseX, of our XML framework: https://basex.org. The new release is a big step forward towards BaseX 11: • We have added numerous new operators, functions and features of XQuery 4. • The GUI editor and result view now provide full support for Unicode characters. • Font rendering has been improved (you can tweak it in the Font Dialog) • More BaseX 11 preview features available (see docs.basex.org) • Various bug fixes (web:forward, job:eval, main-memory documents) Have fun, Your BaseX Team

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BaseX 10 • The Double-Digit Summer Edition
by Christian Grün 01 Aug '22

01 Aug '22

Dear all, It’s been around 15 years ago when the first Open-Source version of BaseX was released. Thanks to the continuous support of all of you, we are thrilled today to announce the first double-digit version of our XML framework: https://basex.org/ BaseX 10 assists you with your everyday data challenges with some great new features: STORAGE • Beside XML Documents and Binary Data, you can use the new »XQuery Values« resource type to store arbitrary items and sequences in databases. • General data (registered users, scheduled services, and key-value stores) can now be backed up as well. • Mixed-content developers will be delighted: Whitespaces are now preserved by default. XQUERY • Database locking has been improved by splitting up XQuery compilation into a static and dynamic step. • A new Store Module allows you to organize values in a persistent main-memory key-value store. • You can store and retrieve XQuery values with db:put-value and db:get-value. • When serializing XML, indentation is now turned off by default. GENERAL • BaseX 10 requires Java 11 to run. • The GUI comes with improved HiDPI support, new icons and improved consistency. • All HTTP requests are now based on the new Java HTTP client. • Catalog support is now universal and based on either the new XML Catalog API or Norman Walsh’s excellent XML Resolver. • The default ports for web applications were changed from 8984/8985 to 8080/8081. • The default admin password was removed to improve security. • Results of the REST API are now wrapped in the default REST namespace. We have taken the version jump as an opportunity to rename various existing functions and commands. The database storage has not changed: Databases created with BaseX 10 are backward compatible and can still be opened with BaseX 9. Visit our documentation for more details, and information on how to upgrade your existing applications: https://docs.basex.org/wiki/BaseX_10 Have fun! Your BaseX Team

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Feature Preview: Caching Module
by Christian Grün 05 May '22

05 May '22

Hi there, BaseX 10 will come with a new Caching Module [1], which will allow you to store XQuery values (atomic items, nodes, sequences, maps, arrays, anything except function items) in a main-memory cache. Caches are persistent: Its contents will be written to disk at shutdown time and retrieved from disk in a new or restarted BaseX instance when accessed for the first time. The cache size is only limited by the available RAM. We started off with an XML format for representing caches in files, but we switched to a binary format to speed up the processing of large caches. It’s also possible to put large XML documents in the cache, but the classic database representation will give you better results in most cases. A first snapshot is available [2]. In addition, we’ll soon introduce new database functions, which will enable you to store XQuery values (…including maps) in a database. Have fun, Christian [1] https://docs.basex.org/wiki/Caching_Module [2] https://files.basex.org/releases/latest-10/

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BaseX 9.7 • Ukraine Edition
by Christian Grün 23 Mar '22

23 Mar '22

Dear all, Just next to us, millions of people are currently being torn out of their home country, and we desperately hope that the situation in Ukraine will calm down soon. For those of you who are planning to donate money to us in the upcoming weeks, we kindly ask you this time to redirect it to Médecins Sans Frontières or any NGO of your choice. – We are back to provide you with a new and fresh version of BaseX. It comes with a big bunch of advanced performance tweaks and optimizations and some new XQuery features: • Support for xsl:messages via xslt:transform-report: • Support for formatting integers and dates in French • XSD validation: Improved support for XML catalogs • Remove namespaces from elements via util:strip-namespaces For a more comprehensive list of added and updated features, look into our documentation (docs.basex.org) and check out the GitHub issues (github.com/BaseXdb/basex/issues). And one more pleasant announcement: Today, our company BaseX GmbH Our celebrates its 10th anniversary! Thanks to all of you who have keeping us busy with challenging projects. Rest assured we’ll be happy to continue to give you advice and support for the upcoming decades. All the best, Your BaseX Team

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BaseX 9.6.4: Tweaks, Fixes & Thank Yous
by Christian Grün 17 Dec '21

17 Dec '21

Dear all, We conclude this year with yet another release of BaseX, our XML framework, database and XQuery processor [1]. The new version contains new performance tweaks and minor bug fixes, the details of which can be examined on our GitHub page [2]. As we’ve got numerous inquiries regarding Log4j: I can comfort you that BaseX is not affected by the vulnerabilities. We have our own logging mechanism, which has no built-in code execution features. The same applies to the Jetty web server. Log4j once again demonstrates that Open Source is everywhere, and that it takes valuable time and resources to build professional and secure software. We send out a big thank you to those of you who are (and have been) supporting us by paying for maintenance, sponsoring new features and giving donations. It’s you who is keeping BaseX both alive and up to date! Have a good time, Christian [1] https://basex.org [2] https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/commits/master

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