Dear all, we’ve just polished up our documentation; you’re welcome to come over: http://docs.basex.org Next, we’re more than busy working on BaseX 6.8, which will be released beginning of October, and which will contain quite a bunch of new features:
Just four weeks have passed, and we are proud to announce Version 6.7.1 (a.k.a. The Balisage 2011 Edition) of BaseX. Here is what you get:
Once more, we are glad to announce our latest version of BaseX. Beside continuous tweaks, fixes, minor changes and alignments with the XQuery 3.0 specification, it offers the following enhancements:
API: [ADD] JAX-RX API now supports basic user authentication: docs.basex.org/wiki/JAX-RX_API [ADD] The COPY command creates identical database copies: docs.basex.org/wiki/Commands [ADD] The OPTIMIZE ALL command minimizes all database structures: docs.basex.org/wiki/Commands XQuery:
Dear all, we are excited to announce the new version of BaseX, aligned with the LinuxTag Event in Berlin/Germany. The main features are: a highly efficient XQuery map expression with associated functions, basic authentication in our JAX-RX (REST) API, and multiple editor tabs. Please read on for more details:
BaseX is proud to be part of the official Debian Repositories. Debian users running unstable may now install BaseX by executing:
Dear all, thanks to everyone who gave us great feedback on BaseX 6.6, either by e-mail or directly at the XMLPrague conference! This way, we were able to finish Version 6.6.1 just one week later, which offers some exciting performance improvements and some more bug fixes:
XQuery: [ADD] index rewritings added for .../text()[. = ..] syntax [ADD] optimizations of mixed axis path expressions, e.g.: //x/name() [MOD] index rewritings on collections fixed and generalized [MOD] faster evaluation of filters with pos. predicates, e.g.: $x[5] [FIX] fixed relocation of let clauses in GFLWOR expressions [FIX] trace function returned wrong original results [FIX] variables in catch clauses were discarded [FIX] HOF optimizations and fixes GUI:
Meet the team at Linux Tag 2011 in Berlin. We will give an 1 hour talk on BaseX, it is scheduled May 13, 11:00 - 12:00 ( Room Europa II). We are looking forward to seeing you there. Please see the LinuxTag website for details.
We are glad to announce the release of BaseX 6.6! [ADD] XQuery 3.0: Full support of Higher Order Functions (dynamic function invocation, inlined functions, etc.) [ADD] XQuery: Support of the EXPath ZIP Module [MOD] XQuery Update: numerous speedups, memory consumption reduced [ADD] Commands: COPY command added to clone existing databases [ADD] CSV/Test importers revised, ENCODING option added [ADD] XQuery utility functions added util:format(), util:crc32(), util:md5(), util:sha1(), etc. [ADD] XQuery 3.0: context item and decimal-format declarations [FIX] Storage and update features revised, bugs fixed