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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
- Improved index rewritings, more precise cost estimations
- New modules: Array and User Module
- New annotations: %basex:inline, %basex:lazy
- 13 of our modules were updated and extended
STORAGE
- Existing documents will be overwritten in-place whenever possible
- Updatable index structures now take much less space
- Faster document index (storing paths to all XML documents)
- AUTOOPTIMIZE option: optimize after each update
- XINCLUDE option: resolve or ignore XInclude tags
SECURITY
- Revised user management; users are stored as XML
- Digest authentication, Salted SHA256
- Language bindings updated
WEB APPLICATIONS
- Integrated application: DBA, Database Administration
- AUTHMETHOD option: Basic vs. Digest authentication
- RESTXQ: regular expressions in paths, quality factor support
GUI
- Better code completions
VERSION 7.9 (June 27, 2014) --------------------------------------------
XQUNIT
- Unit testing has been improved a lot. All test functions will now be
evaluated separately; this way, updates can be performed within test.
- with the new TEST command, all test modules in a specified directory
can be evaluated.
- tests can be invoked from within the GUI editor and project view.
- on command-line, the -t flag can be used for the same purpose.
RESTXQ
- Custom HTTP methods can be defined via %rest:method
- Error handling has been improved and aligned with try/catch
XQUERY MODULES
- Database Module: parsing options for db:create/db:add
REST
- The "run" operation allows execution of server-side command scripts
VERSION 7.8.2 (April 4, 2014) ------------------------------------------
GUI
- Ctrl-U: efficiently sort large texts
- Ctrl-H, Ctrl-J: context-sensitive behavior
- tweaked code automatisms
STORAGE, UPDATES
- faster processing of documents with namespaces
XQUERY MODULES
- Database Module: alter, copy, create-backup, drop-backup, restore
- Admin Module: new merge option, existing functions revised
- XQuery Module: new evaluation options (memory, timeout, permissions)
XQUERY OPTIMIZATIONS
- always show full stack trace (enforce it with INLINELIMIT=0)
- show stack trace again
- better error messages
- improved function inlining
- prevent pre-evaluation of try/catch
- Easter egg: partial sums (little Gauss) calculation
API
- WebDAV: improved password processing
- Client/Server: reduce waiting time if password is wrong
VERSION 7.8.1 (February 26, 2014) --------------------------------------
ADDED
- Editor, Ctrl-H: filter by opened file type and selected text
- XML Parsing: support for TAR & TGZ
UPDATED
- XQuery errors: function not found -> suggest similar one
- Commands: improved parsing (allow more whitespaces)
- French translation (thanks to Maud Ingarao!)
FIXED
- XQuery Update: nested transform expressions
- XQuery: always return boolean when calling doc-available()
- XQuery: disallow impossible casts before removing variables
- Binary Module: iterative evaluation of bin:octets()
- Commands, REPO INSTALL: install packages in same directory
- CSV/JSON: serialization of underscores
VERSION 7.8 (February 12, 2014) ----------------------------------------
GUI
- new project view for organizing and opening project files
- realtime search of project files and contents
- various new editor shortcuts and code completions, code formatting
UPDATES
- improved performance of delete and insert operations
- faster in-place value updates
- 'update': convenience keyword for transform expressions
XQUERY OPTIMIZATIONS
- XQuery functions are now inlined and further optimized
- closure optimizations, better static typing
- improved detection and rewriting of tail calls
- faster processing of (sub)sequences
XQUERY MODULES
- JSON and CSV Module: updated and enhanced conversion rules
- Unit Module: enhanced test report output
- Map Module: map:serialize added; syntax aligned with latest spec.
- File Module: aligned with changes in EXPath spec.
- XQuery Module: xquery:evaluate (operates on opened databases)
- Full-Text Module: ft:contains added, ft:search: more options
- EXPath Binary Module added
- Java modules: support for locking annotations
API
- New options: INLINELIMIT, TAILCALLS, DEFAULTDB, RUNQUERY
- New command-line flag: -R only parse query
- Russian translation added (thanks to Oleksandr Shpak!)
- Spanish translation added (thanks to Carlos Marcos!)
VERSION 7.7.2 (October 7, 2013) ----------------------------------------
XQUERY
- CSV Module and serialization added
- JSON serializer updated (more to follow)
- update checks in modify clause fixed
- parsing of new map syntax fixed (ignoring spaces)
- tail call handling in built-in higher order functions fixed
API
- Russian translation added (thanks to Oleksandr Shpak, Max Shamaev)
- command-line arguments starting with '<' are interpreted as XQuery
INDEXING
- bug fixed in updatable index structure
VERSION 7.7.1 (September 16, 2013) -------------------------------------
XQUERY
- new map syntax: { 'key' : 'value' }
- tail call optimization for dynamic functions
- optimize fn:subsequence() calls and sequence casts
- db:optimize(): original options are preserved
WEBDAV
- return non-breakable spaces as  
CORE
- avoid OutOfMemory exception when building large databases
VERSION 7.7 (August 7, 2013) -------------------------------------------
XQUERY
- Our XQuery 3.0 support is now complete!
http://docs.basex.org/wiki/XQuery_3.0
- the Unit Module allows standardized testing of XQuery applications
http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Unit_Module
- the Streaming Module speeds up operations on large files
http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Streaming_Module
- the Inspection Module provides reflection and documentation features
http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Inspection_Module
- we have added support for XQuery collations
http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Full-Text#Collations
- we have extended the Database, Archive, File and other Modules
http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Module_Library
COMMANDS
- database names have got more flexible
http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Commands#Valid_Names
- we have new options for simplifying the creation of large databases
http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Options
WEB/HTTP SERVICES
- WebDAV has been enriched with locking features (sponsored feature!)
http://docs.basex.org/wiki/WebDAV#Locking
- RESTXQ has been improved and extended:
http://docs.basex.org/wiki/RESTXQ
VERSION 7.6 (February 5, 2013) -----------------------------------------
DATABASE LOCKING:
- updates on different databases can now be executed in parallel and
won't lock your read-only queries anymore:
http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Transaction_Management
XQUERY
- when errors are raised, the full stack trace is now returned
- the EXPath Geo Module, Fetch Module and HTML Module have been added:
http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Module_Library
- the Validation, XSLT, Database and Profiling Module have been updated
GUI
- error messages are now clickable and linked with the text editor
- trace/profiling output is redirected to the info view in realtime
VERSION 7.5 (December 21, 2012) ----------------------------------------
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
VERSION 7.3 (June 18, 2012) --------------------------------------------
- Many new internal XQuery Modules have been added, and existing
ones have been revised to ensure long-term stability of your future
XQuery applications: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Module_Library
- A new powerful Command API is provided to specify BaseX commands
and scripts as XML: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Commands#Basics
- The full-text fuzzy index was extended to also support wildcard
queries: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Full-Text
- The XQuery 3.0 simple map operator gives you a compact syntax to
process items of sequences: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/XQuery_3.0
- BaseX as Web Application can now start its own server instance:
http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Web_Application
- All command-line options will now be executed in the given order:
http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Startup_Options
- Charles Foster's latest XQJ Driver supports XQuery 3.0 and the
Update and Full Text extensions: http://xqj.net/basex/
VERSION 7.2.1 (April 27, 2012) -----------------------------------------
- Our value indexes now support string-based range queries:
http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Indexes#Value_Indexes
- Our new XQJ API is based on Charles Foster's implementation.
It fully utilizes the client/server architecture:
http://xqj.net/basex
- Import of XQuery modules has been simplified:
http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Repository
- Better Java code integration:
http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Java_Bindings
- Full support for the XQuery 3.0 Regular Expressions syntax:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions-30/#regex-syntax
- Updating functions can now return values:
http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Database_Module#db:output
- Unified handling of document and database URIs:
http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Databases#Access_Resources
- Pinning of opened database replaced by filesystem locking:
http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Transaction_Management#Locking
- REST, RESTXQ, WebDav: concurrency issues fixed
VERSION 7.2 (March 24, 2012) -------------------------------------------
- support for the new RESTXQ API for building XQuery web services
- improved support for running BaseX as web application
- XQuery: higher order functions added to speed up Top-K queries
- proxy server settings added
- advanced TagSoup options added for importing HTML files
- XQuery: faster traversal of full-text index entries: ft:tokens()
- Command-line: embedded readline and history support via JLine
- 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
VERSION 7.1.1 (February 19, 2012) --------------------------------------
GUI:
- new "Package" dialog: to list, install and delete XQuery Packages
- "New/Add" dialog: "RAW" input format allows import of raw files;
automatic detection of input formats, increased usability
- "Export" dialog enhanced to support other methods like JSON,
and various serialization parameters
Command-Line:
- new option -L: add trailing newline after query result
- new option -C: execute commands from batch script
REST:
- new "option" parameter: set options before executing request
Full-Text:
- Indonesian Stemmer (thanks Andria Arisal!)
IO:
- faster read/write access to byte arrays
VERSION 7.1 (February 8, 2012) -----------------------------------------
GUI
- improved document management: hierarchical view of db resources
- easier index creation/removal and database optimization
- JSON/JsonML parser added
- editor: updated and reopened files are reverted from disk
REST
- automatic XML conversion of popular content types
(JSON/JsonML, CSV, HTML)
XQUERY
- new index module for directly accessing database index structures
- new repository module to manage EXPath packages via XQuery
- db:list-details() returns information on the database resources
- db:content-type() retrieves content-type of a specific resource
- ft:tokens() returns full-text tokens stored in the index
- ft:tokenize() tokenizes a given input string
- util:path() returns the path to the executed query file
- util:time() prints the time needed to evaluate a given expression
- util:mem() prints allocated memory for evaluating an expression
- expanded QNames, computed namespace constructors
COMMAND-LINE
- multiple query files and -c/-i/-q flags can now be specified
INDEXING
- ID/Pre mapping, incremental indexing of value index structures
- document index fix: correct replacement of existing documents
- document index: faster updates
OPTIONS
- ADDRAW: add raw files if not filtered by CREATEFILTER
- MAXLEN: max. length of strings to be added to the index structures
- MAXCATS: max. number of distinct values stored in statistics
- UPDINDEX: turn on incremental index updates for value indexes
- improved BINDINGS option
CLIENT/SERVER
- improved log output if query iterator is used
- new ActionScript API (thanks to Manfred Knobloch!)
SERIALIZATION
- "newline" parameter specifies the type of newline to be used
COMMANDS
- KILL command accepts IP:port combination to specify target
TRANSLATIONS
- Bahasa Indonesian: thanks to Andria Arisal!
- Mongolian: thanks to Tuguldur Jamiyansharav!
VERSION 7.0.2 (November 11, 2011) --------------------------------------
FULL TEXT
- Stemming support for Japanese text corpora
(thanks to Toshio HIRAI!)
STARTUP
- Updated start scripts (thanks to Ralf Jung!)
- System property "org.basex.path" added to specify
project's home directory (thanks to malamut2!)
XQUERY
- Numerous minor XQuery 3.0 enhancements and fixes
- Fix for db:optimize() calls (thanks to Martin Hillert!)
STORAGE
- Fix to retain newly introduced namespaces
(thanks to Laurent Chevalier!)
USERS
- Default privileges for new users set to "none"
(thanks to Pascal Heus!)
REST
- query base URI for evaluated queries is now $HTTPPATH
(thanks to Florent Georges!)
VERSION 7.0.1 (October 23, 2011) ---------------------------------------
DISTRIBUTIONS
- Windows installer was updated to support latest features
- ZIP file was updated (initial config & directories added)
- Short directory names are chosen if config file resides in app.dir.
- Start scripts have been improved
XQUERY
- much faster execution of count() when applied to opened databases
SERVER
- Flag -c connects to an existing database server
- Flag -s specifies a port for stopping the HTTP server (Jetty)
- Flag -S starts the HTTP server as a service
- running write operations will be completed before server is stopped
API
- Ruby, Python, PHP, Java: clients updated
VERSION 7.0 (October 14, 2010) TEI EDITION -----------------------------
API
- Native and tightly integrated REST implementation replaces JAXRX
- WebDAV provides a file system like access to BaseX databases
XQUERY
- Parsing and serializing JSON documents
- SQL module builds a JDBC bridge to access relational databases
- EXPath Cryptographic Module for encryption and XML Signatures
- Full text engine tokenizes Japanese texts (thx to Toshio Hirai!)
- db:retrieve() and db:store() handle raw data
- util:uuid() to create random universally unique identifier
- db:content-type() retrieves the content type of a resource
- db:exists() checks if the specified database or resource exists
- db:is-raw(), db:is-xml() check existence and type of a resource
- db:list(), db:open() uses two separate arguments to specify
database and resource path
- further modifications: db:add(),
SERVER
- BaseX HTTP Server activates the REST and WebDAV services
- ITER command returns all results in one go and the client
handles the iterative execution
COMMANDS
- FLUSH command to write all database buffers to disk
- STORE command to store raw data in a database
- RETRIEVE command to get raw data from the database
- modified ADD command
OPTIONS
- SERVERHOST: to specify a server
- KEEPALIVE: optional timeout to close inactive client sessions
- AUTOFLUSH database buffers
- QUERYPATH: path to executed query
VERSION 6.7.1 (July 28, 2011) BALISAGE EDITION -------------------------
XQuery:
- New database functions for adding, deleting, renaming
and replacing documents, and optimizing databases:
http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Database_Functions
- XSLT transformations via Java or Saxon:
http://docs.basex.org/wiki/XSLT_Functions
- All XQuery 3.0 functions are now supported:
http://docs.basex.org/wiki/XQuery_3.0
- Tail-call optimizations to speed up recursive functions
Storage:
- Use ADDARCHIVES to parse files within archives
- Use SKIPCORRUPT to skip non-well-formed files when
creating a database: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Options
- Max. level depth limit (256) removed
- The document index is now incrementally updated
GUI:
- "Manage Database" dialog now supports operations on
multiple databases and the command-line glob syntax:
http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Commands#Glob_Syntax
- Drag and drop operations introduced for opening new files
and copying file paths
Client/Server:
- Delay clients that repeatedly fail to login
- All remaining plain-text password operations now use
MD5 to send and log passwords
VERSION 6.7 (June 30, 2011) --------------------------------------------
Main Features:
[ADD] Native support for the EXPath Packaging system:
http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Packaging