The Apache Jena development community is pleased to announce the release of Apache Jena 3.8.0!
== Key features of the release JIRA completed this release: https://s.apache.org/jena-3.8.0-jira JENA-341/JENA-1537 Xerces dependency removed. Jena no longer depends on Xerces which should avoid classpath compatibility issues with environments that provide Xerces. This also resolves a known security vulnerability with Xerces. JENA-1488, JENA-1556 Text Search and Indexing enhancements for better multilingual support. See the updated documentation for details: http://jena.apache.org/documentation/query/text-query.html#linguistic-support-with-lucene-index http://jena.apache.org/documentation/query/text-query.html#defined-analyzers JENA-1524/JENA-1525 Some package renaming and Automatic-Module-Name's for JPMS compatibility This may require changes to advanced users who make changes to the Jena system initialization, see the following for details: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c099345477ffd1f7f4e23514a9551273efe3cd8e3276b9a945344e15@%3Cdev.jena.apache.org%3E JENA-1552 Improved bulk loader for TDB2, alternative bulk loading schemes that are more friendly for environments with non-dedicated workloads i.e. more efficient bulk loading without dominating machine resources. JENA-1554 Support for bz2 compressed inputs and outputs JENA-1561 TBD2 now available via Fuseki command line and UI = Upgrades to libraries (runtime dependencies): Added: - Apache Commons Compress 1.17 (JENA-1554) Updated: - json-ld java 0.12.0 - Jackson 2.9.5 - Apache HTTP Client 4.5.5 - Apache HTTP Core 4.4.9 - Awaitility 3.1.0 - Guava 24.1-jre (NB - Guava is shaded) Removed - Xerces (see JENA-1537) == Obtaining Apache Jena 3.8.0 * Via central.maven.org The main jars and their dependencies can used with: <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.jena</groupId> <artifactId>apache-jena-libs</artifactId> <type>pom</type> <version>3.8.0</version> </dependency> Full details of all maven artifacts are described at: http://jena.apache.org/download/maven.html * As binary downloads Apache Jena libraries are available as a binary distribution of libraries. For details of a global mirror copy of Jena binaries please see: http://jena.apache.org/download/ * Source code for the release The signed source code of this release is available at: http://www.apache.org/dist/jena/source/ and the signed master source for all Apache Jena releases is available at: http://archive.apache.org/dist/jena/ == Contributing If you would like to help out, a good place to look is the list of unresolved JIRA at: http://s.apache.org/jena-jira-current or review pull requests at https://github.com/apache/jena/pulls or drop into the dev@ list. We use github pull requests and other ways for accepting code: https://github.com/apache/jena/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md The Apache Jena development community
