Dear subscribers,

after some busy weeks, we are glad to announce BaseX 7.2, the EDBT Release! The latest version offers the following new features:

* support for the new RESTXQ API for building XQuery web services [1] * improved support for running BaseX as web application [2] * XQuery: higher order functions added to speed up Top-K queries [3] * proxy server settings added [4] * advanced TagSoup options added for importing HTML files [5] * XQuery: faster traversal of full-text index entries via ft:tokens() [6] * Command-line: embedded readline and history support via JLine [7] * XQuery 3.0: annotation added, updated EQName syntax (Q{uri}name) * opened databases are now pinned OS-wide to reduce write conflicts * HTML5 serialization of query results * a printable version of our Wiki documentation

As usual, more infos can be found on our homepage [8]. All your feedback is welcome. If you will be attending the EDBT Conference next week, we are looking forward to seeing you there,

Christian, BaseX Team 2012

[1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/RESTXQ [2] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Web_Application [3] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Higher-Order_Functions_Module#hof:top-k-by [4] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Options#PROXYHOST [5] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Parsers#Options [6] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Full-Text_Module#ft:tokens [7] http://jline.sourceforge.net/ [8] http://basex.org/