Christian,

What a great incentive to get me blogging again!

Thanks!

Patrick



On 03/23/2018 04:32 PM, Christian Grün wrote:
> Dear BaseX aficionados,
>
> We are very happy to announce the release of BaseX 9.0!
>
> The new version of our XML database system and XQuery 3.1 processor
> includes some great new features and a vast number of minor
> improvements and optimizations. It’s both the usage of BaseX in
> productive environments as well as the valuable feedback of our open
> source users that make BaseX better and better, and that allow and
> motivate us to keep going. Thanks to all of you!
>
> Along with the new release, we invite you to visit our relaunched
> homepage: http://basex.org/.
>
> Java 8 is now required to run BaseX. The most prominent features of
> Version 9.0 are:
>
>  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
>
> More details can be found on our homepage. We are looking forward to
> your feedback.
>
> Enjoy and have fun,
> Christian, BaseX Team

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