Open Source

Community

Open source software thrives through community engagement. Every piece of feedback, whether it is a bug report, a feature request, or a request for assistance, provides us with invaluable information.

BaseX has been an open source product since 2005, licensed under the 3-clause BSD License. It will remain open source, irrespective of any commercial activities. If you appreciate BaseX and wish to support its ongoing development, please consider making a donation.

Getting Started

For information on how to install BaseX and get started, please refer to the Getting Started section of our documentation. The Developer Section shows how to integrate BaseX into your projects. Our source code and issue tracker are located on GitHub. Pre-built release packages can be found in the Download Section.

Help

For any questions regarding BaseX, including feature requests and bug reports, please use our mailing lists:

• basex-talk: A general discussion list with user questions and answers. It can also be searched in the mail archive.
• basex-announce: Low-traffic list with information on new releases.

Additional support for BaseX is available on Stack Overflow. Look for questions tagged with [basex].

Version History

For a version history, please review the release news or the (previous) releases.