VERSION 12.3 (April 16, 2025) ------------------------------------------

XQUERY 4.0

- JNodes: XPath traversal in map/array structures

- Improved string representation of function items

- XML, JSON: canonical serialization

- Namespace declarations: support for 'fixed' and '##any'

XQUERY

- HTML Parsing without parser: wrap HTML contents as string value

- file:delete: raise no error if target does not exist

- file:copy: Preserve capitalization of target path

GUI

- Support for FlatLaf Look and Feels

- Editor: Improved closing of tags

FIXES, PERFORMANCE

- xquery:fork-join was fixed

- info/debugging strings: increased output length

- numerous tweaks to take advantage of recent JVMs

- fn:path: caching of repeatedly accessed steps

VERSION 12.2 (January 20, 2025) ----------------------------------------

XQUERY 4.0

- support for private variables and functions without namespace

PERFORMANCE

- offset-based access to records with fixed entries

- improved propagation/modification of static record types

- union/intersect/except: more compile-time rewritings

- fold functions: improved short-circuiting

- faster general comparisons

- JDK 17+ Optimization tweaks

DEBUGGING

- better error messages

- unlimited trace output on command line

BUG FIXES

- RESTXQ, %input annotation: map/array construction

- HTML serialization, script elements

VERSION 12.1 (December 23, 2025) ---------------------------------------

RESTXQ

- improved local locking for resources supplied via arguments

Storage

- PUT operations: replace or ignore existing resources

XQuery

- Cache Functions: Store transient data in main-memory LRU caches

- Key/Value Store: All opened stores are now kept in main memory

- faster generation and conversion of sequences and arrays

- fn:load-xquery-module: retrieve module only once at runtime

XQuery 4.0

- Function declarations: The 'local' prefix can now be omitted

- Destructuring: let $($head, $tail) := ...

- Map construction generalized: { 1: 2, $map-entries }

- Pseudo path function: $xml/get($node-name)

- New node comparators (is-not, precedes, follows, ...)

- %method annotation replace by =?> operator

VERSION 12.0 (June 26, 2025) -------------------------------------------

🔧 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

VERSION 11.9 (April 30, 2025) ------------------------------------------

- [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

VERSION 11.8 (March 20, 2025) ------------------------------------------

- [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

VERSION 11.7 (January 31, 2025) ----------------------------------------

- [ADD] XQuery: Ordered maps, preserving the insertion order

- [ADD] New Pipeline operator "->"

- [ADD] XQuery 3.1 function (finally) fn:load-xquery-module

- [ADD] New functions: fn:siblings, fn:type-of, fn:elements-to-maps

- [ADD] New parse functions: fn:parse-csv, fn:parse-html

- [ADD] HTML parsing: Support for both TagSoup and Validate.nu

- [MOD] Better readable serialization of doubles, maps and arrays

- [MOD] Store functions: only read if contents have changed

- [MOD] RESTXQERRORS option: if disabled, write error to logs

- [FIX] RESTXQ: Correct handling of query and form parameters

VERSION 11.6 (November 28, 2024) ---------------------------------------

- [ADD] New XQuery 4 features (sibling axes, civil-timezone, etc)

- [ADD] job:execute: Run XQuery scripts

- [ADD] Permissions: Access to request headers and query parameters

- [ADD] New options: LOGEXCLUDE, LOGCUT

- [ADD] JSON serialization: Improved double representation

- [ADD] JSON serialization: json-lines support

- [FIX] Tomcat: improved job handling

VERSION 11.5 (October 29, 2024) ----------------------------------------

- [ADD] New XQuery 4 features (support for named record type, etc)

- [MOD] XQuery: tweaked rules for swapping comparison operands

- [FIX] Logging: Whitespace normalized

- [FIX] XQuery: transitive module imports

VERSION 11.4 (October 2, 2024) -----------------------------------------

- [ADD] New XQuery 4 features (fn:element-number, others)

- [FIX] XQuery: Inlining of sequences

- [FIX] XQuery: better support for JSON payloads in HTTP requests

- [FIX] XQuery: improved processing of serialization parameters

- [FIX] Core: concurrent string caching

VERSION 11.3 (September 19, 2024) --------------------------------------

- [ADD] New XQuery 4 features

- [ADD] Options: LOG, support for stdout/stderr/slf4j targets

- [ADD] XQuery: focus expression (A -> B; experimental)

- [MOD] XQuery, processing single chars: reduced memory consumption

- [MOD] XQuery, db:node-id, db:node-pre: faster retrieval

- [FIX] XQuery: self-recursiveness of functions and variables revised

- [FIX] XQuery: inspect:function has become more robust

VERSION 11.2 (August 15, 2024) -----------------------------------------

- [ADD] New XQuery 4 features

- [ADD] XQuery: proc:system: new 'environment' option

- [MOD] GUI: Global Ctrl-ENTER shortcut

- [MOD] XQuery: faster evaluation of recursive functions

- [MOD] XQuery: faster invocation of HOF function parameters

- [MOD] XQuery: distinct-values: faster processing of numeric input

- [MOD] XQuery: fewer redundant type checks

- [FIX] XQuery: circularity/self-dependency checks revised

- [FIX] WebSockets (Jetty 11): Idle timeout increased to 1 hour

VERSION 11.1 (July 10, 2024) -------------------------------------------

- [FIX] Duplicate libraries removed from distribution packages

- [FIX] XQuery, inspect:module and inspect:xqdoc

- [FIX] WebSocket, ws:broadcast, ws:emit: send maps and arrays

- [FIX] HTTP Payloads: handling multipart messages

- [ADD] XQuery: support for union node tests

- [MOD] XQuery: Better coercion for arrays and maps

- [MIN] Updated to Jetty 11.0.22 and Markup Blitz 1.4

VERSION 11.0 (June 6, 2024) --------------------------------------------

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

VERSION 10.7 (August 4, 2023) ------------------------------------------

- GUI, Editor: Full support for Unicode characters

- GUI, Editor: Faster font rendering (font dialog: anti-aliasing)

- XQuery 4: New features, functions, operators

- BaseX 11 preview features (see the documentation)

- bug fix: web:forward, write concluding log entry

- bug fix: job:eval, re-initialize scheduled jobs

- various other bug fixes

VERSION 10.6 (May 4, 2023) ---------------------------------------------

- XQuery: Much more memory-efficient representation of XML fragments

- XQuery: Faster access to substrings and single characters

- XQuery: Faster iterations with the simple map operator

- XQuery 4: more preview features available

- CSV/JSON conversions: Less memory consumption

- CSV parsing: option for skipping empty fields

- GUI, editor: better code completion

- Less reflection: Direct acccess to TagSoup, iXml, JLine

- Minor bug fixes

VERSION 10.5 (March 23, 2023) ------------------------------------------

- new XQuery 4 features

- numerous performance tweaks

- minor bug fixes

VERSION 10.4 (December 1, 2022) ----------------------------------------

- minor bug fixes

- DBA, settings: enable indentation

- XQuery 4 preview features updated

VERSION 10.3 (October 11, 2022) ----------------------------------------

- better pooling of HTTP requests

- new command-line option -W for indenting results

- minor bug fixes

VERSION 10.2 (September 28, 2022) --------------------------------------

- new undocumented XQuery 4 preview features

- optimization: better rewritings of positional tests

- optimization: simplifying arithmetic expressions

- optimization: consistent propagation of data reference

- optimization: faster invocation of function items

VERSION 10.1 (August 18, 2022) -----------------------------------------

- Bug fix: HTTP Requests, sending headers

- Bug fix: Storage handling of main-memory databases

- Bug fix: GUI editor, double clicks

- Bug fix: function items and mixed updates

- undocumented XQuery 4 preview features

VERSION 10.0 (August 1, 2022) ------------------------------------------

STORAGE

- Three resources types: XML, binary, XQuery Values

- When importing XML, whitespaces are now preserved

- Backups enhanced for general data (users, services, store)

XQUERY

- Multiple compilation steps for improved locking!

- New Store Module: persistent main-memory key-value storage

- Database Module: store values (db:put-value, db:get-value)

- When serializing XML, indentation is now turned off

GENERAL

- GUI revised: HiDPI support, new icons, improved consistency

- All HTTP requests based on new Java HTTP client

- Universal catalog support, based on new XML Catalog API

- Responses of standard REST API use default namespace

- Default ports for web applications: 8984/8985 -> 8080/8081

- Default admin password was removed

VERSION 9.7.3 (June 30, 2022) ------------------------------------------

- DBA: Improved support for database backups

- Performance tweaks and bug fixes

- BaseX 10 preview: Store Module (before: Caching Module)

- BaseX 10 preview: Backup of general data (users, jobs, stores)

VERSION 9.7.2 (May 14, 2022) -------------------------------------------

- English Stemmer: dictionary for irregular forms added

- Preview implementations of BaseX 10 features

- Performance tweaks, minor fixes

VERSION 9.7.1 (April 26, 2022) -----------------------------------------

- RESTXQ: improved caching for unmodified modules

- GUI: improved support for middle mouse button

- GUI, editor: list opened files (Ctrl-F6)

- Backups: support for comments added

- XQuery: inspect:functions: parse modules only once

- XQuery: db:delete: Faster deletion of binary resources

- XQuery: jobs:eval: handling of large job numbers revised

- XQuery optimizations: rewrite value to general comparisons

VERSION 9.7 (March 23, 2022) -------------------------------------------

XQUERY

- numerous performance tweaks and optimizations

- support for formatting integers and dates in French

- xslt:transform-report: support for xsl:messages

- util:strip-namespaces: remove namespaces from elements

- XSD validation: improved support for XML catalogs

VERSION 9.6.4 (December 17, 2021) --------------------------------------

- Performance tweaks, minor fixes

VERSION 9.6.3 (October 21, 2021) ---------------------------------------

- Minor fixes, Performance tweaks

VERSION 9.6.2 (September 30, 2021) -------------------------------------

- Performance tweaks, minor bug fixes

VERSION 9.6.1 (August 26, 2021) ----------------------------------------

- GUI bug fix, XQuery performance tweaks

VERSION 9.6 (August 19, 2021) ------------------------------------------

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: controll 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 reponse

VERSION 9.5.2 (May 27, 2021) -------------------------------------------

- Performance tweaks, minor bug fixes

VERSION 9.5.1 (April 2, 2021) ------------------------------------------

- Performance tweaks, minor bug fixes

VERSION 9.5 (February 25, 2021) ----------------------------------------

RESTXQ

- the client IP address behind a proxy is added to the logs

- stack traces in the error message can now be suppressed

- the default error code has been changed from 400 to 500

- error messages are more user-friendly now (#1708)

- content negotiation was improved (#1991)

- inline arguments of called function (#1982)

XQUERY FUNCTIONS

- Utility: new functions for sequences, arrays and maps

- Higher-Order Functions: hof:drop-while

- Jobs: More options for job intervals

XQUERY PERFORMANCE

- revised scoring propagation (all items will take less memory)

- default function inlining limit reduced from 100 to 50

- axis path rewritings, better typing (#1910, #1976, #1979)

- better typing (#1906, #1908, #1909, #1944, #1945)

- faster data()/string() checks (#1975)

- rewrite map:merge to map:put (#1969)

- rewrite order by to fn:sort (#1966)

- rewrite group by to fn:distinct-values (#1932)

- rewrite quantifiers to FLWOR expressions (#1961)

- optimizations of arithmetic expressions (#1938, #1972)

- optimizations of lookup operator (#1929, #1984)

- optimizations of counts (#1965, #1973, #1974)

- optimizations of regular lists (#1919, #1924)

- optimizations of switch expression (#1920)

- optimizations of instance of (#1939)

- distinct values (#1930, #1967)

- positional checks (#1937)

- existence checks (#1971)

VERSION 9.4.6 (January 7, 2021) ----------------------------------------

- Performance tweaks, minor bug fixes

VERSION 9.4.5 (November 24, 2020) --------------------------------------

- Minor bug fixes

VERSION 9.4.4 (November 6, 2020) ---------------------------------------

- Performance tweaks, minor bug fixes

VERSION 9.4.3 (September 11, 2020) -------------------------------------

- New compile-time optimizations and performance tweaks

VERSION 9.4.2 (August 21, 2020) ----------------------------------------

- Performance tweaks, bug fixes

VERSION 9.4.1 (July 26, 2020) ------------------------------------------

- Minor bug fixes and performance tweaks

VERSION 9.4 (July 14, 2020) --------------------------------------------

WEB APPLICATIONS

- DBA: support for millions of log entries

- LOGTRACE option: write trace output to logs or STDERR

- rest:init: Full or partial initialization of RESTXQ cache

- basexhttp: register job services

GUI

- result view: show number of results and result size

- Shift F4-F7: toggle search options (case, regeex, ..)

- Ctrl-Shift-B: jump to matching bracket

XQUERY LOCKING

- single lock option for reading and updating queries

- Java bindings: annotation added for updating functions

XQUERY FUNCTIONS

- convenience functions: json:doc, csv:doc, html:doc

- element names: convert:encode-key, convert:decode-key

- jobs:eval: option added for writing log entries

- session module: only create new sessions if required

XQUERY PERFORMANCE

- boolean comparisons: flatten nested expressions

- boolean expressions: merge conjunctions

- comparisons: simplify operands with if expression

- database functions: always open at compile time

- databases: propagate to more expressions at compile time

- filters: inline context for single items

- filters: rewrite to simple maps

- FLWOR: inline where clauses into let clauses

- FLWOR: merge last with return clause, rewrite to simple map

- FLWOR: rewrite "return if ..." to "where ... return"

- fn:for-each, fn:filter: rewrite to FLWORs and filters

- if expression, EBV tests: simplify boolean tests

- lists, sets, logical expressions: flatten expressions

- lists: rewrite to union expressions

- logical expressions: apply more boolean algebra rules

- paths: remove redundant predicates

- predicates with name functions: rewrite to name tests

- predicates: merge expressions, discard redundant tests

- predicates: remove of superfluous and redundant tests

- set expressions: merge operands

- simple map: inline cast expressions

- simple maps: faster evaluation

- simple maps: merge operands

- simple maps: rewrite to paths, optimize for index access

- switch: rewrite to if expression

- types: skip redundant checks, promotions and conversions

VERSION 9.3.3 (May 15, 2020) -------------------------------------------

- Minor bug fixes, performance tweaks, new query optimizations

VERSION 9.3.2 (March 10, 2020) -----------------------------------------

- Minor bug fixes, numerous performance tweaks

VERSION 9.3.1 (December 19, 2019) --------------------------------------

- Minor bug fixes and performance tweaks

VERSION 9.3 (November 29, 2019) ----------------------------------------

RESTXQ

- seamless streaming of custom responses to the client

- Request Module: bind attributes to current request

- better support for the OPTIONS and HEAD methods

- enforce premature HTTP response with web:error

- optional GZIP compression of HTTP responses

- trace output is now stored in database logs

- server-side forwarding with web:forward

USER INTERFACES

- GUI: project view: skip directories with .ignore file

- GUI: project view: do now follow symbolic links

- DBA: user panel updated to show user info

- DBA: faster processing of log entries

STORAGE

- hot fix for replacing single documents with namespaces

- improved XQuery processing of binary resources

- ADDCACHE: faster caching of single documents

- WITHDB: less locking when using fn:doc

XQUERY FUNCTIONS

- user:info/user:update-info: process user-specific data

- db:open-id, db:open-pre: support for multiple ids

- file:descendants: return descendant file paths

- inspect:type: return type of a value as string

- db:alter-backup: rename database backups

- xsl:transform: support for catalog files

XQUERY PERFORMANCE

- merge of adjacent/redundant steps in paths and predicates

- removal of redundant switch, typeswitch and catch clauses

- interruption of side-effecting code (Files Modul etc.)

- fn:count: pre-evaluation of zero-or-one arguments

- faster processing of alternative steps: a/(b,c)

- rewriting of paths to simple map expressions

- inlining of values in simple map expressions

- flattening of nested simple map expressions

- rewriting of lists to union expressions

- removal of superfluous predicates

VERSION 9.2.4 (July 26, 2019) ------------------------------------------

- Minor bug fixes

- Preview implementations of new 9.3 features

VERSION 9.2.3 (July 5, 2019) -------------------------------------------

- Numerous query optimization tweaks (paths, simple maps, try/catch)

- Minor bug fixes

VERSION 9.2.2 (May 21, 2019) -------------------------------------------

- Windows installer: Shortcuts fixed

- Bug fixes (Unit tests; sessions:ids; status code from XQuery error)

- Web Module: Anchor arguments added

- WITHDB option: fn:doc, consider or exclude database documents

VERSION 9.2.1 (May 7, 2019) --------------------------------------------

- GUI: faster and smarter parsing of project files

- RESTXQ: custom reponses are now sent as streams

- Performance tweaks (static typing: typeswitch, instance of)

- Minor bug fixes

VERSION 9.2 (April 16, 2019) -------------------------------------------

XQUERY PERFORMANCE

- comparisons will more often be rewritten to hash joins

- optimized access to subsequences and single sequence items

- consistent propagation of static types to evaluation results

- improved static typing of function items (maps, arrays)

- more aggressive pre-evaluation at compile time

STORAGE PERFORMANCE

- large databases will be opened faster

- regular storage offset will be computed at runtime

GENERAL XQUERY FEATURES

- no need to import basex-api modules anymore!

- Archive Module: archive:create-from, new options

- Database Module: directory-based access via db:dir

- Profiling Module: new functions (prof:gc, prof:runtime)

- Validation Module: assign XSD validation features

- WebSocket Module: query scheduling via ws:eval

- Utility Module: various new helper functions

- XSLT Module: support for XML Catalogs (thank you Liam)

NEW OPTIONS

- RESTXQERRORS: Suppress parsing errors at runtime

- FULLPLAN: comprehensive query plan information

FULLTEXT FEATURES

- stemmer for Arabic texts added

USER INTERFACES

- GUI: better support for latest JDK versions (incl. OpenJDK)

- DBA: revised search features in log panel

VERSION 9.1.2 (January 22, 2019) ---------------------------------------

Minor bug fixes; performance tweaks (faster WebDAV access).

VERSION 9.1.1 (December 14, 2018) --------------------------------------

XQuery:

- Comprehensive rewritings of positional predicates and functions

- Higher-order functions: Improved type inference

- Improved rewriting of context-based and/or nested predicates

Java Bindings:

- Faster access to and evaluation of Java functions and variables

- Improved pre-selection of function candidates at compile time

- Better error messages (incl. function arity and similar names)

DBA:

- Settings: user-defined pattern for ignoring log entries

- Login: pass on URL query strings

Minor improvements:

- Import: detect epub files as ZIP archives

- Digest Authentication: No delay after first request

- GUI, Preferences: user-defined choice of XML suffixes

VERSION 9.1 (October 31, 2018) -----------------------------------------

WebSockets:

- New web service for full-duplex client/server communication

- WebSocket Module: functions for organizing WebSocket connections

- Embedded sample chat application

XQuery:

- syntax extensions: Elvis operator, ternary if, if without else

- local locks via pragmas and function annotations

- Jobs Module: record and return registration times

- Database Module: faster processing of value index functions

- Update Module, update:output: support for caching maps and arrays

- ENFORCEINDEX option: support for predicates with dynamic values

GUI:

- Mac, Windows: Improved rendering support for latest Java versions

- Choose and display context for XQuery editor expressions

VERSION 9.0.2 (May 31, 2018) -------------------------------------------

Critical bug fixes:

- XQuery: Node ordering of mixed database/fragment instances

- XQuery: Index rewritings of paths with nested positional predicates

Improvements:

- WebDAV: Much faster locking of database resources

- XQuery: Enable ENFORCEINDEX for variable predicate arguments

- GUI: Larger interaction components, unified font sizes

Minor Bug fixes:

- DBA: Suppress menu on login page

- Commands: Nested evaluation with variable bindings

- XQuery: Static typing of lookup expressions

VERSION 9.0.1 (April 24, 2018) -----------------------------------------

Critical bug fixes:

- Storage: Short strings with extended Unicode characters fixed

- XQuery: Nested path optimizations reenabled (e.g. in functions)

- XQuery: map:merge, size computation fixed

- XQuery: node ordering across multiple database instances fixed

Improvements:

- GUI: Better Java 9 support (DPI scaling, font rendering)

- XQuery, collections: faster document root tests

- New R client. Thanks Ben Engbers!

- Linux: exec command used in startup scripts

Minor Bug fixes:

- XQuery: Allow interruption of tail-call function calls

- XQuery, HTTP parsing of content-type parameters

- XQuery, restrict rewriting of filter to path expression

- GUI: progress feedback when creating databases via double-click

VERSION 9.0 (March 23, 2018) -------------------------------------------

XQUERY

- Comprehensive extensions in the internal XQuery optimizer framework

- Dynamic hash joins rewritings of general comparisons

- Register query jobs as persistent services

- Process very large CSV files via the new CSV 'xquery' format

- Update Module: higher-order functions for performing updates

- Unified static typing, including maps, arrays and function items

- COPYNODE: Lightweight copying of XML fragments

- ENFORCEINDEX: Enforce rewriting for index access

STORAGE

- Improved database compression (short strings, whitespaces)

WEB APPLICATIONS

- Permissions layer: Unified definition of RESTXQ access patterns

- RESTXQ: Full support for client- and server-side quality factors

- REST: Run BaseX command scripts

- Web server upgrade to Jetty 9

REPOSITORIES

- Combined packaging mechanism (XQuery and Java)

- Java Packaging: Bundling of additional libraries

DISTRIBUTIONS

- Revised detection and configuration of BaseX home directory

- Windows executable: better detection of Java libraries

DBA: BASEX DATABASE ADMINISTRATION

- Improved editing and evaluation of XQuery modules

- Revised file, session and job management

MINOR UPDATES

- NEW: convert:binary-to-integers: return binary data as octets

- NEW: db:option: return value of system option

- NEW: fetch:xml-binary: retrieve XML from binary data

- NEW: jobs:invoke: schedule job based on input file

- NEW: out:cr: return carriage return

- NEW: proc:fork: execute command in separate thread

- NEW: prof:track: measure runtime and memory

- NEW: util:replicate: return results multiple times

- NEW: IGNOREHOSTNAME (certificates verification)

- UPDATE: convert:integers-to-(base64|hex) renamed

- UPDATE: file:read-text-lines: new $offset/$length arguments

- UPDATE: fn:put: specify serialization parameters

- UPDATE: http:send-request: support for compressed responses

- UPDATE: proc:system, new input option: pass on stdin

- UPDATE: prof:time, prof:memory: signatures updated

- UPDATE: sql:execute(-prepared) returns update count

- UPDATE: update:output(-cache) renamed; before: db:output(-cache)

- UPDATE: web:response-header: status/message attributes

- UPDATE: xquery:eval: new pass option (pass on error info)

- UPDATE: xquery:eval-update renamed; before: xquery:update

- UPDATE: xquery:parse(-uri): base-uri option added

- UPDATE: xslt:transform(-text): cache XSLT transformer

- UPDATE: JSON Module, 'xquery' format renamed; before: 'map'

- UPDATE: Lazy Module renamed; before: Streaming Module

- UPDATE: GUI: serialization parameters for result output

- UPDATE: XQuery: numeric errors replaced with descriptive names

- UPDATE: BaseXServer option -c accepts URLs and file references

VERSION 8.6.7 (September 21, 2017) -------------------------------------

Bug fixes, performance (fn:tail, static typing in group by clauses).

VERSION 8.6.6 (August 24, 2017) ----------------------------------------

Bug fixes (map:merge, where clauses), performance tweaks.

VERSION 8.6.5 (July 28, 2017) ------------------------------------------

Various performance tweaks, minor fixes.

VERSION 8.6.4 (May 18, 2017) -------------------------------------------

Bug fixes (one critical), various performance tweaks.

VERSION 8.6.3 (April 6, 2017) ------------------------------------------

Bug fixes, performance enhancements.

VERSION 8.6.2 (March 13, 2017) -----------------------------------------

Minor bug fixes and performance tweaks.

VERSION 8.6.1 (February 24, 2017) --------------------------------------

Minor bug fixes and improvements:

- Core, locking: revised locking of jobs exceeding PARALLEL limit

- Client/Server: improved logging of unexpected exceptions

- XQuery optimization: faster iteration of atomized values

- GUI, Project View: only repaint relevant sub tree after updates

- GUI, Project View: improved file search

- GUI, Editor: revised rendering of whitespaces and long strings

- GUI, Info View: limit size of evaluation cache

VERSION 8.6 (January 24, 2017) -----------------------------------------

LOCKING

- jobs without database access will never be locked

- read transactions are now favored (adjustable via FAIRLOCK)

RESTXQ

- file monitoring was improved (adjustable via PARSERESTXQ)

- authentication was reintroduced (no passwords anymore in web.xml)

- id session attributes will show up in log data

DBA

- always accessible, even if job queue is full

- pagination of table results

INDEXING

- path index improved: distinct values storage for numeric types

XQUERY

- aligned with latest version of XQuery 3.1

- updated functions: map:find, map:merge, fn:sort, array:sort, ...

- enhancements in User, Process, Jobs, REST and Database Module

CSV DATA

- improved import/export compatibility with Excel data

VERSION 8.5.3 (August 15, 2016) ----------------------------------------

Minor bug fixes, improved thread-safety.

VERSION 8.5.2 (July 21, 2016) ------------------------------------------

Minor bug fixes and performance tweaks.

VERSION 8.5.1 (July 11, 2016) ------------------------------------------

Bug fixes, experimental 8.6 features.

VERSION 8.5 (July 4, 2016) ---------------------------------------------

DATABASE JOBS

- all registered database jobs are now centrally administered

- jobs can be scheduled (periodical execution, start/end time)

- job results can be cached and retrieved later on

- new Jobs Module: XQuery functions for managing jobs

- new commands: JOBS [LIST|RESULT|STOP]

- DBA: visualization of currently registered jobs

XQUERY

- parallel execution via xquery:fork-join (thank you, James Wright!)

- alignments with the latest changes in the XQuery 3.1 specification

- easy chaining of update operations with the 'update' keyword

- numerous optimizations, smarter rewritings and heuristics

XQUERY MODULES

- File, Conversion, Fetch Module: handling of invalid XML characters

- Inspection Module: inspect:function-annotations added

OPTIONS

- LOGPATH: custom path for logging data

- CACHETIMEOUT: timeout for dropping cached job results

- AUTHMETHOD: `custom` added to skip authentication

VERSION 8.4.4 (May 3, 2016) --------------------------------------------

Minor bug fixes and tweaks.

VERSION 8.4.3 (April 13, 2016) -----------------------------------------

Minor bug fixes, experimental 8.5 features.

VERSION 8.4.2 (March 30, 2016) -----------------------------------------

Minor bug fixes, performance tweaks, experimental 8.5 features.

VERSION 8.4.1 (March 3, 2016) ------------------------------------------

Minor bug fixes, experimental support for 8.5 features.

VERSION 8.4 (February 8, 2016) -----------------------------------------

GUI

- Project View: parse all modules in a project in the background

- Create Database, Properties: access to advanced database options

- Sort Dialog: order by column positions and locale collation

INDEXING

- New Token Index: speedy token lookups in DITA and HTML documents

- Including full support for incremental and main-memory databases

- XQuery optimizations for fn:contains-token, fn:tokenize, fn:idref

WEB APPLICATIONS

- Cancel server-side queries via %rest:single annotation

- DBA query editor: faster querying, better responsivity

XQUERY

- Database Module: ADDCACHE support (caching of large results)

- Direct output of binary data with new 'basex' serialization method

- Better XQuery 3.1 compliance: string constructors, new functions

- Java bindings: address specific Java function signatures

- User Module: create users and grant permissions in one step

DOCUMENTATION

- Many Wiki articles have been revised and updated

VERSION 8.3.1 (October 29, 2015) ---------------------------------------

- XQuery 3.1: alignments with latest spec

- Bug fixes (GUI errors, XPath optimizations)

VERSION 8.3 (September 23, 2015) ---------------------------------------

SELECTIVE INDEXING

- restrict value indexing to given elements and attributes

- support extended to updatable and main-memory databases

VALIDATION

- support for RelaxNG validation (XML and compact syntax)

- optional XML Schema 1.1 support

- new function for creating validation reports

XQUERY MODULES

- Strings Module: Levenshtein, Soundex, Cologne Phonetic

- updates in the Archive, Database, Admin and Process modules

DBA

- File panel: upload and download files

BUG FIXES

- automatic database optimization if node id turns negative

- XQuery optimizations, performance tweaks, WebDAV issues

VERSION 8.2.3 (July 14, 2015) ------------------------------------------

Bug fixes (DBA, admin:write-log; namespaces)

VERSION 8.2.2 (July 6, 2015) -------------------------------------------

Various bug fixes (all minor)

VERSION 8.2.1 (June 9, 2015) -------------------------------------------

DBA

- code highlighting (thanks, James Ball!)

- new panel for up- and downloading files

- queries and files are now stored in a temporary directory

GENERAL

- various bug fixes

VERSION 8.2 (May 21, 2015) ---------------------------------------------

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)

VERSION 8.1.1 (April 16, 2015) -----------------------------------------

Various bug fixes (all minor)

VERSION 8.1 (March 28, 2015) -------------------------------------------

XQUERY

- efficient Finger Tree algorithm for arrays

- prof:variables() outputs list of currently bound variables

- new higher-order functions: hof:scan-left, hof:take-while

WEB APPLICATIONS

- Web Module offers convenience functions for building web apps

- RESTXQ: %input annotation; input-specific content-type parameters

OPTIONS

- RESTPATH: specify server path for queries and command scripts

- IGNORECERT: ignore untrusted certificates when connecting to servers

COMMAND-LINE

- Bind input strings to the query context with -I

VERSION 8.0.3 (March 19, 2015) -----------------------------------------

Various bug fixes (all minor)

VERSION 8.0.2 (March 9, 2015) ------------------------------------------

REST

- Better support for concurrent read and write operations

XQUERY

- Speed up wildcard queries without wildcards

- XQUnit: compare error codes as QNames

- Fix: process each single flwor clause when removing variables

- Fix: consider xml:space='preserve' during serialization

CORE

- Fix: consider case when pinning databases

HTTP:

- Fix: digest authentication, correct quoting

VERSION 8.0.1 (February 22, 2015) --------------------------------------

XQUERY

- Faster execution of single, index-based results

- Iterative evaluation of steps with multiple predicates

Minor bug fixes:

- WebDAV locking

- Archive Module

- Adaptive serialization of arrays and maps

- Digest Authentication

- Save command-line history

VERSION 8.0 (February 9, 2015) -----------------------------------------

XQUERY

- Support for XQuery 3.1 (nearly complete)

- New default serialization ("adaptive")

- MIXUPDATES option: update items and return results at the same time