Dear all,

We invite you to check out Version 8.2, the Summer Edition, of BaseX, our XML database system and XQuery 3.1 processor! You can expect the following features:

XQUERY - much faster sequence modification via finger trees - improved compliance with XQuery 3.1

DBA - open, save and delete queries - better Tomcat support

STORAGE - updatable index structures: reduced disk space consumption

XQUERY FUNCTIONS - Standard Module: fn:json-to-xml, fn:xml-to-json - Web Module: web:encode-url, web:decode-url - File Module: file:is-absolute, file:resolve-path - Admin Module: admin:delete-logs - Database Module: db:output-cache

BUG FIXES - locking, full-text requests, stemming

REMOVED FEATURES - event handling (will be replaced by database triggers)

The latest version is available at http://basex.org. As usual, various minor bugs and inconsistencies have been fixed in the latest version; check out our documentation (http://docs.basex.org) and the GitHub commits (https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex) for more details!

We are looking forward to your feedback, Your BaseX Team