BaseX 9.0 Changelog
Java 8 is now required to run BaseX. The most prominent features of Version 9.0 are:
News
BaseX 8.6 – The Winter Edition
BaseX 8.6, the Winter Edition, is out! The new version of our XML database system and XQuery 3.1 processor includes countless improvements and optimizations. Many of them have been triggered by your valuable feedback, many others are the result of BaseX used in productive and commercial environments.
BaseX 8.6 Changelog
Improved XQuery 3.1 conformance and better RESTXQ performance where the main focus of this release.
BaseX 8.5 – The Summer Edition
A new Summer Edition of BaseX is available! Our XML database system and XQuery 3.1 processor provides the following new stunning features:
BaseX 8.5 Changelog
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
BaseX 8.4 – The XMLPrague 2016 Edition
Dear all, Aligned with the XML Prague 2016 Conference, we are more than happy to provide you with a great new version of BaseX, your XML database system and XQuery processor! These are the new features:
BaseX 8.4
GUI - Project View: parse all modules in a project in the background - Create Database, Properties: access to advanced database options
BaseX 8.3
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
BaseX 8.3 – The Autumn Edition
Summer is over, and a new version of BaseX is here! We are more than happy to present Version 8.3 of our XML database and XQuery 3.1 processor. This is what you get:
BaseX 8.2
XQUERY - much faster sequence modification via finger trees - improved compliance with XQuery 3.1 DBA - open, save and delete queries