Dear subscribers,
yes, it has been quite a while… Which is why we are even more excited to finally announce the release of BaseX 7.5, the BaseXMas Edition, our XML Database and XQuery Processor! Here are the latest features and changes:
XQUERY UPDATE - bulk updates are now much faster than before - insert and replace operations take much less memory - databases can now be created via XQuery and db:create()
GUI TEXT EDITOR - a fast and flexible search/replace panel has been added - error highlighting has been extended to XML files - the editor was improved for editing arbitrary text files
XQUERY 3.0 - the code has been aligned with latest changes in the specs - HTML5 support has been updated
WEB APPLICATIONS - new modules have been added: Request, Session, Sessions - logging has been revised and extended to HTTP requests - SSL support added, switched to Jetty 8 - all operation modes have been unified and simplified - RESTXQ elements added to simplify forwarding and redirects
CORE FEATURES - improved stability of concurrent read/write operations - the INSPECT command performs database sanity checks - EXECUTE triggers the execution of command scripts
Numerous other things have happened, which you can look up in our documentation (http://docs.basex.org).
2012 has been a great year for BaseX, which is why we are very confident that you can expect many more open source versions of our product in the future!
Thanks for reading; we are looking forward to all your feedback,
Christian BaseX Team 2012
PS: If you haven’t registered yet… Don’t forget to join our XMLPrague User Meeting (http://lanyrd.com/2013/basex-users-meetup-xml-prague/)!