We have PMCs votes +1 from Adam, Osma and Andy
and community from Marco, Øyvind and Mathias.
The VOTE passes.
There are a couple of points to follow-up as issues to investigate and
understand.
Thank you everyone.
Andy
On 27/01/2026 16:18, Andy Seaborne wrote:
Hi,
Here is a vote on the first release candidate for
Apache Jena version 6.0.0
==== Release Vote
This vote will be open until at least
Saturday, 31st January 2026 at 08:00 UTC
Please vote to approve this release:
[ ] +1 Approve the release
[ ] 0 Don't care
[ ] -1 Don't release, because ...
Everyone, not just committers, is invited to test and vote.
Please download and test the proposed release. See the checklist below.
Staging repository:
https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachejena-1071
Proposed dist/ area:
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/jena/
Keys:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jena/dist/KEYS
Git commit (browser URL):
https://github.com/apache/jena/commit/1b767c8830
Git Commit Hash:
1b767c8830220f55dcd760e94c0dadf597b6eea4
Git Commit Tag:
jena-6.0.0
If you expect to check the release but the time limit does not work
for you, please email to let us know within the schedule above.
==== Contributors
@jduchateau
@Aklakan
@SimonBin
@imsdu:
@MathiasVDA
@AtesComp
==== In this release
Issues in this release:
https://s.apache.org/jena-6.0.0-issues
==== Checking:
+ are the GPG signatures fine?
+ are the checksums correct?
+ is there a source archive?
+ can the source archive be built?
(NB This requires a "mvn install" first time)
+ is there a correct LICENSE and NOTICE file in each artifact
(both source and binary artifacts)?
+ does the NOTICE file contain all necessary attributions?
+ have any licenses of dependencies changed due to upgrades?
if so have LICENSE and NOTICE been upgraded appropriately?
+ does the tag/commit in the SCM contain reproducible sources?
==== Current draft [ANN]
The Apache Jena development community is pleased to
announce the release of Apache Jena 6.0.0
All issues for this release:
https://s.apache.org/jena-6.6.0-issues
== Jena 6.0.0
* Minimum Java version: Java 21
* Reloading data into TDB2 is recommended
* Reloading geospatial for the move to Kyro5
* Lucene update to 10.* (this requires Java21+)
* Retire jena-permissions
* Retire the Fuseki WAR file, jena-fuseki-webapp, jena-fuseki-war
* Code deprecation removal
* Deprecation of TDB1 (but not removed)
* Remove ARQ initial bindings
* Switch to jena-iri3986 as the IRI parser; retire jena-iri
== Contributions to Jena 6.0.0:
Contributors:
@jduchateau
Updates to schemagen for keyword handling and
Allow versionInfo to be a URI
Aklakan
Improve query cancellation
Fix for AbstractIterhasJoin
RDFS improvements
GeoSpatql - upgrade to kryo5
SimonBin:
Ability to render GeoSPARQL results on a map in Fuseki-UI
https://github.com/apache/jena/pull/3587
@imsdu:
Conversions to/from JSON object for Titanium JSON-LD
https://github.com/apache/jena/pull/3702
@MathiasVDA
Correction for GEoSPARQL #3577
@AtesComp
Update Fuseki Edit view CodeMirror usage
== Impact:
The minimum version of Java is now Java21.
= TDB2
There is a fix for handling xsd:decimals.
It is advisable to reload data if xsd:decimals have been used.
= geosparql
jena-geosparql: Jena 6 requires re-creation of spatial index files that
were generated with earlier versions. The reason is a bump to the latest
major version of the kryo serialization framework dependency.
In general, it is recommended to back up existing databases including
the spatial indexes prior to engaging in the migration process.
The GeoSPARQL Assembler will automatically re-create all referenced
absent spatial index files. Hence, moving or deleting existing spatial
indexes is usually sufficient. The Fuseki SPARQL server runs spatial
index creation of GeoSPARQL assemblers during server start. This process
may take a while depending on the sizes of the involved datasets.
== Lucene 10
== modules removed:
jena-iri, jena-fuseki-webapp, jena-fuseki-war, jena-permissions
== Package org.apache.jena.tdb removed.
Migrate to TDB2 or use package org.apache.jena.tdb1 (for now).
== Obtaining Apache Jena 6.0.0
* Via repo1.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>6.0.0</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:
https://jena.apache.org/download/
* Source code for the release
The signed source code of this release is available at:
https://downloads.apache.org/jena/source/
and the signed source code for all Apache Jena releases is
available at: https://archive.apache.org/dist/jena/
== Contributing
If you would like to help out, a good place to look is the list of
unresolved github issues:
https://github.com/apache/jena/issues
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
