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BaseX 7.1: The XMLPrague 2012 Edition
by Christian Grün 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

Dear all, three months have passed, and we are now proud to release BaseX 7.1, a.k.a. the XMLPrague 2012 Edition! These are some of the new exciting features (a full list is attached below): * GUI: the management of your databases, documents & binary files and index structure has got easier than ever before! * JSON: import, query and export your JSON data via XQuery, REST, or on command line! * Incremental Indexing: update your text and attributes index in realtime! * Enhanced Path Statistics: retrieve distinct values of location paths in constant time! * New XQuery functions to simplify database, full-text, index, and repository access * New XQuery 3.0 Features: support for EQNames, namespace constructors, etc. * Revised Command-Line API: process multiple inputs or commands in one run * Document Index: improved update performance We hope you have fun with our latest release, and we're looking forward to your feedback and seeing some of you in Prague, Christian BaseX Team _____________________________________________ BaseX 7.1 Feature List: GUI * improved document management: hierarchical view of databases resource * easier index creation/removal and database optimization * JSON/JsonML parser added * editor: updated and reopened files are reverted from disk REST * automatic XML conversion of popular content types (JSON/JsonML, CSV, HTML) XQUERY * new index module for directly accessing database index structures * new repository module to manage EXPath packages via XQuery * db:list-details() returns information on the database resources * db:content-type() retrieves the content-type of a specific database resource * ft:tokens() returns full-text tokens stored in the index * ft:tokenize() tokenizes a given input string * util:path() returns the path to the (currently executed) query file * util:time() prints the time needed to evaluate a given expression * util:mem() prints the allocated memory for evaluating a given expression * expanded QNames, computed namespace constructors COMMAND-LINE * multiple query files and -c/-i/-q flags can now be specified INDEXING * ID/Pre mapping, incremental indexing of value index structures * document index fix: correct replacement of existing documents * document index: faster updates OPTIONS * ADDRAW: add new resources as raw files if not filtered by CREATEFILTLER * MAXLEN: max. length of strings to be added to the index structures * MAXCATS: max. number of distinct values stored in statistics * UPDINDEX: turn on incremental index updates for value indexes * improved BINDINGS option CLIENT/SERVER * improved log output if query iterator is used * new ActionScript API (thanks to Manfred Knobloch!) SERIALIZATION * a project specific "newline" parameter specifies the type of newline to be used COMMANDS * modified KILL command accepts IP:port combination to specify target TRANSLATIONS * Bahasa Indonesian: thanks to Andria Arisal! * Mongolian: thanks to Tuguldur Jamiyansharav!

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BaseX 7.0.2: 11-11-11 Edition
by Christian Grün 11 Nov '11

11 Nov '11

Dear list, we have just released a new maintenance release of BaseX, which contains the following features and updates: FULL TEXT - Stemming support for Japanese text corpora (thanks to Toshio HIRAI!) STARTUP - Updated start scripts (thanks to Ralf Jung!) - System property "org.basex.path" added to specify project's home directory (thanks to malamut2!) XQUERY - Numerous minor XQuery 3.0 enhancements and fixes - Fix for db:optimize() calls (thanks to Martin Hillert!) STORAGE - Fix to retain newly introduced namespaces (thanks to Laurent Chevalier!) USERS - Default privileges for new users set to "none" (thanks to Pascal Heus!) REST - query base URI for evaluated queries is now $HTTPPATH (thanks to Florent Georges!) We recommend all of you to switch to the latest version.. Have fun, Christian BaseX Team

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BaseX 7.0.1: Release early, release often..
by Christian Grün 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

Hi all, we are glad to announce BaseX 7.0.1, which is basically the result of your initial feedback on 7.0. Those are the most important changes: DISTRIBUTIONS: - Windows installer was updated to support latest features - ZIP file was updated (initial config & directories added) - Short directory names are chosen if config file resides in app.dir. - Start scripts have been improved XQUERY: - much faster execution of count() when applied to opened databases SERVER (http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Startup_Options#BaseX_HTTP_Server): - Flag -c connects to an existing database server - Flag -s specifies a port for stopping the HTTP server (Jetty) - Flag -S starts the HTTP server as a service - running write operations will be completed before server is stopped API: - Ruby, Python, PHP, Java: clients updated Please check out the well-known links: - Homepage: http://basex.org/ - Documentation: http://docs.basex.org/ - Snapshots: http://files.basex.org/releases/latest/ - Sources: https://github.com/BaseXdb Enjoy the update! Christian BaseX Team

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BaseX 7.0
by Christian Grün 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

Dear all, thanks everyone for your support! We are more than excited to announce BaseX 7.0 (a.k.a. the TEI Edition), the best version we have ever released! It includes an impressive bunch of new features: STORAGE: Files of any data type can now be stored in BaseX in their raw representation. This means that BaseX can now be used as a full-fledged storage system. Next, millions of documents can now be added faster than ever before. APIs: We have rewritten our HTTP services: Our REST implementation has been integrated much more tightly in the core system. It can be used to query XML data, retrieve binary resources, and send database commands. A new WebDAV API provides access to the database via your file system, oXygen and various other clients. The classical clients (available for 10 different programming languages) have been extended and sped up. XQUERY: Numerous modules have been added to process all kinds of data formats via XQuery: JSON documents can be parsed and serialized, SQL databases can be queried, XSLT cryptographics functions are available to encrypt data and use XML signatures. Our database module has been extended to facilitate the storage and modification of database resources. FULL-TEXT: We now offer tokenization and stemming support for 21 different natural languages, including Japanese (thanks to Toshio HIRAI!). Next, we have further optimized the internals of our retrieval features of BaseX. BaseX is a very light-weight, high-performance and scalable XML Database and XPath/XQuery Processor, including full support for the W3C Update and Full Text extensions. An interactive and user-friendly GUI frontend gives you great insight into your XML documents and collections. BaseX is completely Open Source (BSD-licensed) and platform independent. And most important: it runs out of the box and is easy to use. We hope you have fun with our latest release, and we're looking forward to your feedback! Christian BaseX Team __________________________________ BaseX Team Uni KN, Box 188 D-78457 Konstanz http://www.basex.org

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Release BaseX 6.7.1: Balisage Edition
by Christian Grün 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '11

Dear all, just four weeks have passed, and we are proud to announce Version 6.7.1 (a.k.a. The Balisage 2011 Edition) of BaseX. Here is what you get: XQuery: - New database functions for adding, deleting, renaming and replacing documents, and optimizing databases: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Database_Functions - XSLT transformations via Java or Saxon: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/XSLT_Functions - All XQuery 3.0 functions are now supported: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/XQuery_3.0 - Tail-call optimizations to speed up recursive functions Storage: - Use ADDARCHIVES to parse files within archives - Use SKIPCORRUPT to skip non-well-formed files when creating a database: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Options - Max. level depth limit (256) removed - The document index is now incrementally updated GUI: - "Manage Database" dialog now supports operations on multiple databases and the command-line glob syntax: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Commands#Glob_Syntax - Drag and drop operations introduced for opening new files and copying file paths Client/Server: - Delay clients that repeatedly fail to login - All remaining plain-text password operations now use MD5 to send and log passwords More details are found on our homepage [1], in GitHub [2] and on our basex-talk mailing list [3]. Always looking forward to your feedback, Christian BaseX Team [1] http://basex.org/ [2] https://github.com/BaseXdb [3] http://basex.org/open-source/

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Release BaseX 6.7
by Christian Grün 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

Hi all, once more, we are glad to announce a new version of BaseX. Beside continuous tweaks, fixes, minor changes and alignments with the XQuery 3.0 specification, it offers the following enhancements: Main Features: [ADD] Native EXPath Packaging system support: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Packaging [ADD] Client/server event notification: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Events [ADD] Persistent document index added to speed up access to large collections XQuery: [ADD] New database and full-text functions: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Database_Functions http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Full-Text_Functions [ADD] Event function added to fire events [MOD] Index optimizations, better cost estimations Commands: [ADD] Glob syntax added to database commands: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Commands [ADD] New commands added: REPLACE, RENAME, REPO DELETE/INSTALL/LIST, CREATE/DROP EVENT [MOD] BACKUP optimized, renamed to CREATE BACKUP Next, beside our local trainings, we are also offering a two- and three-day course on XML, XQuery and BaseX now in Germany's renowned LinuxHotel: http://www.linuxhotel.de/kurs/xquery/basex. We are looking forward to your feedback, have fun, Christian, BaseX Team

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BaseX 6.6.2: LinuxTag Release
by Christian Grün 09 May '11

09 May '11

Dear all, once more we are glad to release a new version of BaseX, aligned with the LinuxTag Event in Berlin/Germany, which offers the following features: API: [ADD] JAX-RX API now supports basic user authentication: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/JAX-RX_API [ADD] The COPY creates identical database copies: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Commands [ADD] The OPTIMIZE ALL command minimizes all database structures: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Commands XQuery: [ADD] map expressions and functions added: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Map_Functions [MOD] File module aligned with latest EXPath specification: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/File_Functions [MOD] Speedup of full-text queries with keyword lists. Example: $x contains text { 'a', 'b', 'c', ...} [MOD] XQuery Update optimizations for replacing nodes; tree-aware updates. [MOD] XQuery optimizations to avoid materialization of sequences. GUI: [ADD] Multiple editor tabs added [ADD] Database management: copy databases Core: [ADD] Internal XML parser: HTML entities added [FIX] Glob syntax: support for multiple file suffixes Your feedback is welcome as usual; have fun, Christian BaseX Team

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BaseX 6.6.1
by Christian Grün 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

Dear all, thanks to everyone who gave us great feedback on BaseX 6.6, either by e-mail or directly at the XMLPrague conference! This way, we were able to finish Version 6.6.1 just one week later, which offers some exciting performance improvements and some more bug fixes: XQuery: [ADD] index rewritings added for .../text()[. = ..] syntax [ADD] optimizations of mixed axis path expressions, e.g.: //x/name() [MOD] index rewritings on collections fixed and generalized [MOD] faster evaluation of filters with pos. predicates, e.g.: $x[5] [FIX] fixed relocation of let clauses in GFLWOR expressions [FIX] trace function returned wrong original results [FIX] variables in catch clauses were discarded [FIX] HOF optimizations and fixes GUI: [FIX] language option (for Japanese, German, etc. interface) fixed To be continued, Christian BaseX Team, 2011

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BaseX 6.6: XMLPrague Release
by Christian Grün 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

Dear all, we are particularly proud to announce the release of BaseX 6.6, which was released for the XMLPrague conference. It offers many new features, such as: -- full support for Higher Order Functions, introduced with XQuery 3.0 (dynamic function invocation, inlined functions, etc.), -- native support of the EXPath ZIP and HTTP specifications and other new XQuery modules, -- a new COPY Command to clone existing databases, -- revised CSV and text importers for different encoding and XML formats, -- additional XQuery 3.0 features (decimal-format and context item declarations, formatting functions, etc.), and -- numerous speedups, reduced memory consumption and stability fixes for XQuery and XQuery Update operations. Feel free to download our new release from http://basex.org, or check out our project page at GitHub for the latest sources. All the best, Christian BaseX Team, 2011

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Release of BaseX 6.5.1
by Christian Grün 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

Dear all, Version 6.5.1 of BaseX has just been released. It's mainly a stability release, but it also includes some new features and improvements, as shown in the changelog below: [ADD] Storage: Parser options added for built in importers (CSV, TXT) [ADD] APIs: JAX-RX: Flag added to start server in background (-s) [ADD] APIs: Command-line flag added to pass on extern variables (-b) [ADD] XQuery Functions: util:integer-from-base(), util:integer-to-base(), util:sha1(), util:md5() [ADD] Commands: DROP DB ... ON [...]: delete users from specific databases [ADD] Packaging: W3 catalog resolver file (w3-catalog.xml) added [MOD] APIs: JAX-RX: all REST props and calls renamed to JAX-RX/jaxrx [MOD] XQuery Full Text: improved rewritings for index-based evaluation [MOD] XQuery Full Text: better scoring results for index-based queries [MOD] Core: Locking: multiple readers/single writer concept revised [MOD] Windows Packaging: "Start Server" icon starts JAX-RX as well If you are working with our JAX-RX (REST) Interface, please note that we have changed some of the options and calls to make the naming more consistent. As an example, the basexrest script is now called basexjaxrx, and the RESTPATH option has been renamed to JAXRXPATH. Please visit our documentation and search for "6.5.1" to find more details. As usual, we are looking forward to your feedback. Have fun, BaseX Team 2011 ___________________________ Christian Grün Uni KN, Box 188 78457 Konstanz, Germany http://www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/~gruen

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