BaseX 8.2 – Summer Edition

May 21, 2015

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 basex.org. As usual, various minor bugs and inconsistencies have been fixed in the latest version; check out our documentation and the GitHub history for more details!

We are looking forward to your feedback, Your BaseX Team