[xquery-talk] [ANN] BaseX 8.2: The Summer Edition

[Christian Grün]

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