What's New in version 9.5.1:

• Performance tweaks, minor bug fixes.

What's New in version 9.5:

RESTXQ:

• the client IP address behind a proxy is added to the logs
• stack traces in the error message can now be suppressed
• the default error code has been changed from 400 to 500
• error messages are more user-friendly now (#1708)
• content negotiation was improved (#1991)
• inline arguments of called function (#1982)

XQUERY FUNCTIONS:

• Utility: new functions for sequences, arrays and maps
• Higher-Order Functions: hof:drop-while
• Jobs: More options for job intervals

XQUERY PERFORMANCE:

• revised scoring propagation (all items will take less memory)
• default function inlining limit reduced from 100 to 50
• axis path rewritings, better typing (#1910, #1976, #1979)
• better typing (#1906, #1908, #1909, #1944, #1945)
• faster data()/string() checks (#1975)
• rewrite map:merge to map:put (#1969)
• rewrite order by to fn:sort (#1966)
• rewrite group by to fn:distinct-values (#1932)
• rewrite quantifiers to FLWOR expressions (#1961)
• optimizations of arithmetic expressions (#1938, #1972)
• optimizations of lookup operator (#1929, #1984)
• optimizations of counts (#1965, #1973, #1974)
• optimizations of regular lists (#1919, #1924)
• optimizations of switch expression (#1920)
• optimizations of instance of (#1939)
• distinct values (#1930, #1967)
• positional checks (#1937)
• existence checks (#1971)

What's New in version 9.4.6:

• Performance tweaks, minor bug fixes

What's New in version 9.4.5:

• Minor bug fixes.

What's New in version 9.4.3:

• New compile-time optimizations and performance tweaks

What's New in version 9.3.3:

• Minor bug fixes, performance tweaks, new query optimizations

What's New in version 9.3.2:

• Minor bug fixes, numerous performance tweaks

What's New in version 9.3.1:

• Minor bug fixes and performance tweaks

What's New in version 9.3:

RESTXQ:

• seamless streaming of custom responses to the client
• Request Module: bind attributes to current request
• better support for the OPTIONS and HEAD methods
• enforce premature HTTP response with web:error
• optional GZIP compression of HTTP responses
• trace output is now stored in database logs
• server-side forwarding with web:forward

USER INTERFACES:

• GUI: project view: skip directories with .ignore file
• GUI: project view: do now follow symbolic links
• DBA: user panel updated to show user info
• DBA: faster processing of log entries

STORAGE:

• Hot fix for replacing single documents with namespaces
• Improved XQuery processing of binary resources
• ADDCACHE: faster caching of single documents
• WITHDB: less locking when using fn:doc

XQUERY FUNCTIONS:

• User:info/user:update-info: process user-specific data
• Db:open-id, db:open-pre: support for multiple ids
• File:descendants: return descendant file paths
• Inspect:type: return type of a value as string
• Db:alter-backup: rename database backups
• Xsl:transform: support for catalog files

XQUERY PERFORMANCE:

• Merge of adjacent/redundant steps in paths and predicates
• Removal of redundant switch, typeswitch and catch clauses
• Interruption of side-effecting code (Files Modul etc.)
• Fn:count: pre-evaluation of zero-or-one arguments
• Faster processing of alternative steps: a/(b,c)
• Rewriting of paths to simple map expressions
• Inlining of values in simple map expressions
• Flattening of nested simple map expressions
• Rewriting of lists to union expressions
• Removal of superfluous predicates

What's New in version 9.2.4:

• Minor bug fixes
• Preview implementations of new 9.3 features

What's New in version 9.2.3:

• Numerous query optimization tweaks (paths, simple maps, try/catch)
• Minor bug fixes

What's New in version 9.2.1:

• GUI: faster and smarter parsing of project files
• RESTXQ: custom reponses are now sent as streams
• Performance tweaks (static typing: typeswitch, instance of)
• Minor bug fixes

What's New in version 9.2:

XQuery performance:

• Comparisons will more often be rewritten to hash joins
• Optimized access to subsequences and single sequence items
• Consistent propagation of static types to evaluation results
• Improved static typing of function items (maps, arrays)
• More aggressive pre-evaluation at compile time

Storage performance:

• Large databases will be opened faster
• Regular storage offset will be computed at runtime

General XQuery features:

• No need to import basex-api modules anymore!
• Archive Module: archive:create-from, new options
• Database Module: directory-based access via db:dir
• Profiling Module: new functions (prof:gc, prof:runtime)
• Validation Module: assign XSD validation features
• WebSocket Module: query scheduling via ws:eval
• Utility Module: various new helper functions
• XSLT Module: support for XML Catalogs (thank you Liam)

New options:

• RESTXQERRORS: Suppress parsing errors at runtime
• FULLPLAN: comprehensive query plan information

Fulltext feautres:

• Stemmer for Arabic texts added

User interfaces:

• GUI: better support for latest JDK versions (incl. OpenJDK)
• DBA: revised search features in log panel

What's New in version 9.1.1:

XQuery:

• Comprehensive rewritings of positional predicates and functions
• Higher-order functions: Improved type inference
• Improved rewriting of context-based and/or nested predicates

Java Bindings:

• Faster access to and evaluation of Java functions and variables
• Improved pre-selection of function candidates at compile time
• Better error messages (incl. function arity and similar names)

DBA:

• Settings: user-defined pattern for ignoring log entries
• Login: pass on URL query strings

Minor improvements:

• Import: detect epub files as ZIP archives
• Digest Authentication: No delay after first request
• GUI, Preferences: user-defined choice of XML suffixes

What's New in version 9.0.2:

Critical bug fixes:

• XQuery: Node ordering of mixed database/fragment instances
• XQuery: Index rewritings of paths with nested positional predicates

Improvements:

• WebDAV: Much faster locking of database resources
• XQuery: Enable ENFORCEINDEX for variable predicate arguments
• GUI: Larger interaction components, unified font sizes

Minor Bug fixes:

• DBA: Suppress menu on login page
• Commands: Nested evaluation with variable bindings
• XQuery: Static typing of lookup expressions

What's New in version 9.0.1:

Critical bug fixes:

• Storage: Short strings with extended Unicode characters fixed
• XQuery: Nested path optimizations reenabled (e.g. in functions)
• XQuery: map:merge, size computation fixed
• XQuery: node ordering across multiple database instances fixed

Improvements:

• GUI: Better Java 9 support (DPI scaling, font rendering)
• XQuery, collections: faster document root tests
• New R client. Thanks Ben Engbers!

Minor Bug fixes:

• XQuery: Allow interruption of tail-call function calls
• XQuery, HTTP parsing of content-type parameters
• XQuery, restrict rewriting of filter to path expression
• GUI: progress feedback when creating databases via double-click

What's New in version 9.0:

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

MINOR UPDATES:

• NEW: convert:binary-to-integers: return binary data as octets
• NEW: db:option: return value of system option
• NEW: fetch:xml-binary: retrieve XML from binary data
• NEW: jobs:invoke: schedule job based on input file
• NEW: out:cr: return carriage return
• NEW: proc:fork: execute command in separate thread
• NEW: prof:track: measure runtime and memory
• NEW: util:replicate: return results multiple times
• NEW: IGNOREHOSTNAME (certificates verification)
• UPDATE: convert:integers-to-(base64|hex) renamed
• UPDATE: file:read-text-lines: new $offset/$length arguments
• UPDATE: fn:put: specify serialization parameters
• UPDATE: http:send-request: support for compressed responses
• UPDATE: proc:system, new input option: pass on stdin
• UPDATE: prof:time, prof:memory: signatures updated
• UPDATE: sql:execute(-prepared) returns update count
• UPDATE: update:output(-cache) renamed; before: db:output(-cache)
• UPDATE: web:response-header: status/message attributes
• UPDATE: xquery:eval: new pass option (pass on error info)
• UPDATE: xquery:eval-update renamed; before: xquery:update
• UPDATE: xquery:parse(-uri): base-uri option added
• UPDATE: xslt:transform(-text): cache XSLT transformer
• UPDATE: JSON Module, 'xquery' format renamed; before: 'map'
• UPDATE: Lazy Module renamed; before: Streaming Module
• UPDATE: GUI: serialization parameters for result output
• UPDATE: XQuery: numeric errors replaced with descriptive names
• UPDATE: BaseXServer option -c accepts URLs and file references

What's New in version 8.0.2:

REST:

• Better support for concurrent read and write operations

XQUERY:

• Speed up wildcard queries without wildcards
• XQUnit: compare error codes as QNames
• Fix: process each single flwor clause when removing variables
• Fix: consider xml:space='preserve' during serialization

CORE:

• Fix: consider case when pinning databases

HTTP:

• Fix: digest authentication, correct quoting

What's New in version 8.0.1:

XQUERY:

• Faster execution of single, index-based results
• Iterative evaluation of steps with multiple predicates

Minor bug fixes:

• WebDAV locking
• Archive Module
• Adaptive serialization of arrays and maps
• Digest Authentication
• Save command-line history

What's New in version 7.9:

XQUNIT:

• Unit testing has been improved a lot. All test functions will now be evaluated separately; this way, updates can be performed within test.
• with the new TEST command, all test modules in a specified directory can be evaluated.
• tests can be invoked from within the GUI editor and project view.
• on command-line, the -t flag can be used for the same purpose.

RESTXQ:

• Custom HTTP methods can be defined via 'rest:method
• Error handling has been improved and aligned with try/catch

XQUERY MODULES:

• Database Module: parsing options for db:create/db:add

REST:

• The 'run' operation allows execution of server-side command scripts

What's New in version 7.8.1:

ADDED:

• Editor, Ctrl-H: filter by opened file type and selected text
• XML Parsing: support for TAR & TGZ

UPDATED:

• XQuery errors: function not found -> suggest similar one
• Commands: improved parsing (allow more whitespaces)
• French translation

FIXED:

• XQuery Update: nested transform expressions
• XQuery: always return boolean when calling doc-available()
• XQuery: disallow impossible casts before removing variables
• Binary Module: iterative evaluation of bin:octets()
• Commands, REPO INSTALL: install packages in same directory
• CSV/JSON: serialization of underscores