As many of you may have heard, MarkLogic Server 4.2 is now available for 
download at http://developer.marklogic.com .    This significant new release 
introduces new features in several important areas:

Agility and ease-of-use

 *   Information Studio - a browser-based tool and high-level APIs that 
simplify loading and transforming content for information applications.
 *   XSLT 2.0 - This widely-known and deployed programming language can now be 
used directly as part of MarkLogic applications.  As is the norm with 
MarkLogic, it is purpose-built from scratch for high-performance and seamlessly 
integrated with the rest of the server.
 *   Support for OS X as a development platform - woohoo as I type from my Mac!

Enterprise-grade robustness

 *   Replication Asynchronously replicate documents between two databases or 
directories.
 *   Database rollback Roll back a database to a specified point in time to 
recover immediately from a data-destroying event.
 *   Local-Disk Failover High availability in the face of server failure by 
automatic failover to a synchronous copy of the database.
 *   Compartment security An extension to MarkLogic's role-based security model 
to include compartments.
 *   Password policy plugin Set password policy at the system level with an 
administrator-defined password check function.

Industry-leading search and discovery

 *   Distinctive terms Determine the words/terms that best represent a document 
or a sequence of nodes.
 *   Proximity boost Boost the score of a search result based on the proximity 
of terms.

As with all feature releases, 4.2 includes a host of other significant 
enhancements as well.   Below I've also included a list of 
docs<http://developer.marklogic.com/docs> that are new or have significant 
additions in 4.2:

 *   Information Studio Developer's Guide
 *   Flexible Replication Guide
 *   Scripting Administrative Tasks Guide
 *   XQuery and XSLT Reference Guide
 *   Scalability, Availability, and Failover Guide (now includes local-disk 
failover)
 *   4.2 Release Notes - a summary of new features, upgrade compatibility 
information, and other information about this release.  (Yes, it's a good idea 
to rtfrn.)

We've also put up a couple new 
tutorials<http://developer.marklogic.com/learn/tutorials>:


 *   5-Minute Information Studio Walkthrough
 *   Learning to use Search Clustering

and a new sample application for Information 
Studio<http://developer.marklogic.com/blog/information-studio-intro-video> as 
well.

We'll be releasing a number of other 4.2-related materials available over the 
next few weeks as well.

Best,
Eric

Eric Bloch
Director, Community
MarkLogic Corporation
email  [email protected]<x-msg://41/[email protected]>
web    developer.marklogic.com<http://www.marklogic.com/>
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