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---++ 2016 News Announcements
---+++ 2016-04-24 - Virtuoso 7.2.4 Released, Open Source and Commercial Editions
New and updated product features as of April 25, 2016, v7.2.4, include:
---++++ Virtuoso Engine
* Added "obvious" index choice
* Added new bif http_redirect_from
for getting initial path
from internal redirect
* Fixed ODBC issue with SQL_C_LONG
bound to an int32
instead
of an int64/long
* Fixed hang as page was not left if geo_pred
signal an error
* Fixed check if geo_pred
gets right arguments to prevent crash
* Fixed portability issue on Windows
* Fixed issue with cost based optimizer for isiri_id
* Fixed no change from chash
to pageable
if enable_chash_gb = 2
* Disabled AIO for this release of Virtuoso
---++++ SPARQL
* Added missing default privilege grants to SPARQL_UPDATE
role account
* Added optimizations covering property paths with complementary and/or
repeating paths
* Added min/max for IRI ID
* Added new HTML output option to DESCRIBE
and CONSTRUCT
queries that
uses <script>...</script>
to include RDF-based Structured Data Islands
* Added support for CVS in RFC4180 format
* Added support for skipping UTF-8 BOM marks on Turtle and
JSON lexers
* Added support for service invocation of bigdata running in
triples and introducing language exceptions
* Added new debug option to /sparql
page
* Fixed issue with ':
' in blank node labels
* Fixed NQuads do not permit %NN
in blank node labels
* Fixed issues with property paths like <p>|!<p>
* Fixed issue when SERVICE clause does not return real vars,
only ?stubvarXX
* Fixed issue with unused default graph
* Fixed issue with SPARQL SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT *) { ... }
* Fixed SPARQL-BI syntax for HAVING
* Fixed issue with duplicate triples in microdata
* Fixed handling of strings containing serialized XML
* Fixed issue with boolean in SPARQL/XML results
---++++ Jena & Sesame
* Added Sesame 4 provider
* Added Jena 3 provider
* Added support for Sesame 2.8.x
* Added Jena example for use of Inference and Ontology Model
with Jena provider
* Fixed Node2Str
for Literals for more properly handle Literals
with Lang
* Fixed issue with openrdf-workbench
application
* Fixed Testsuites
* Fixed Sesame 2 test connection string
* Fixed PreparedStatement
with parameter bindings for SPARQL
queries with parameters instead of substituting parameter
values in query
* Updated testsuites
---++++ JDBC Driver
* Added support for building JDK 1.8 and JDBC 4.2
* Added support for Connection.setCatalog()
* Fixed conversion of broken Unicode strings
* Fixed variable initialization
* Fixed VirtuosoDataSource
methods setLog_Enable()
and
getLog_Enable()
to properly work with Spring framework
* Fixed JDBC driver to remove finalizers
---++++ Faceted Browser
* Added link-out icons
* Added more link-out relations
* Fixed content negotiation
* Fixed default output is XML
* Fixed facet search service
* Fixed issue with CSS
* Fixed labels
* Fixed missing alias in facet service
* Fixed missing grant
* Fixed og:image
added to list
* Fixed possible change of displayed resources post-sponge
* Fixed prefixes
* Fixed space encoding in IRI
* Fixed splitting UTF-8 strings can produce bad encoded strings
* Fixed support for images
* Fixed svc search to keep address
---++++ Conductor
* Added validation for sequence number value
* Added start and expiration dates of CA
* Added new option to disable scheduled job
* Synced Conductor WebDAV implementation with briefcase
* Fixed set specific sponger pragmas on text/html
* Fixed checkpoint after RDF view generation
* Fixed use of transactional mode
* Fixed issue with LDAP server
* Fixed labels
---++++ DAV
* Small optimization for update triggers of WS.WS.SYS_DAV_RES
* Fixed set specific sponger pragmas on text/html
* Fixed issue uploading Turtle files containing special symbols
---++++ DBpedia
* Implemented new fluid skin design for DBpedia /page
based
on the Bootstrap Framework
* Updated DBpedia VAD for UTF-8 based URIs for International
Chapters
* Updated prefixes
* Added references to license
* Fixed show language with label, abstract, comment
* Fixed the http://mementoarchive.lanl.gov
link
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---++ 2015 News Announcements
---+++ 2015-12-09 - Virtuoso Open-Source Edition 7.2.2 Released
New product features as of December 9, 2015, v7.2.2, include:
---++++ Virtuoso Engine
* Added support for reading bzip2 compressed files
* Added support for reading xz/lzma compressed files
* Added optimization for DATE/DATETIME/TIME escapes
* Fixed memory leaks
---++++ SPARQL
* Added option 3 to RDF_AUDIT_METADATA() which provides self-fixing of JSO based system metadata
* Added new JSO loader with bif_jso_validate_and_pin_batch
* Added new HTML output options to default /sparql endpoint page
---++++ Jena & Sesame
* Updated Jena provider to handle mapping of Jena Blank Nodes to Virtuoso Blank Nodes
---++++ JDBC Driver
* Added additional server-side settings
* Added initial testsuite for handling date values in JDBC provider
---++++ Faceted Browser
* Added aggregate query optimization for data across named graphs
* Added support for automatic sponging when no pre-existing data is in place for a target document
* Added using microdata as HTML metadata default instead of RDFa
* Added missing default privilege GRANTs
---++++ Conductor
* Added export function for stored private and public keys
* Added filters to IMAP DET folders
* Added support for FTP DET
* Added support for move and copy commands on some DETs
* Added support for prefix search, lookup, and verification to WebDAV/Briefcase Editor
* Added support for setting file expiration for WebDAV/Briefcase
---++++WebDAV
* Added DETs move/copy commands
* Added IMAP DET filters to WebDAV browser
* Added last-modified attribute to Documents
* Added scheduler procedure for expired items
* Added support for FTP DET
---+++ 2015-06-24 - Virtuoso Open-Source Edition 7.2.1 Released
New product features as of June 24, 2015, v7.2.1, include:
---++++ Virtuoso Engine
* Added support for TIMEZONE
-less xsd:dateTime
& DATETIME
* Added support for xsd:boolean
* Added new text index functions
* Added better handling of HTTP status codes on SPARQL graph
protocol endpoint
* Added new cache for compiled regular expressions
* Added support for expression in TOP/SKIP
* Fixed cost based optimizer related bugs
* Fixed codegen in LEFT OUTER JOIN
for
((A is NULL) or (A=B))
and similar expressions
* Fixed issue with conditional expression
* Fixed issue with SSL handshake in non-blocking mode
* Fixed issue with "Anytime Query" and GROUP BY
* Fixed issue with multistate ORDER BY
* Fixed CORS header handling
* Fixed memory leaks
* Updated documentation
---++++ SPARQL
* Added support for SPARQL GROUPING SETS
* Added support for SPARQL 1.1 EBV
(Efficient Boolean Value)
* Added support for define input:with-fallback-graph_uri
* Added support for define input:target-fallback-graph-uri
* Fixed SPARQL queries with sub-selects
* Fixed SPARQL abs()
should not convert result to INTEGER
* Fixed UNDEF
is now a valid generic subexpression in SPARQL
* Fixed SQL codegen for SPARQL SELECT ... count(*) ...
* Fixed SPARQL issue with UNION
with multiple BINDS
* Fixed handling of '*
' in COUNT(*)
and COUNT(DISTINCT *)
* Fixed handling of "plain box" constants
* Fixed handling of optional minus sign on SPARQL values
* Fixed SPARQL 1.1 Update target for ignore default graph from context but set from USING
* Fixed issue inserting triple with XML type
* Fixed issue with bad filter reduced to NULL
* Fixed return \uNNNN\uNNNN
instead of \UNNNNNNNN
in JSON strings
* Fixed issue with xsd:dayTimeDuration
in codegen
* Fixed issue multiple OPTIONALs
for a variable or nullable subq + optional
---++++ Jena & Sesame Compatibility
* Added support for using rdf_insert_triple_c()
to insert BNode data
* Added support for returning xsd:boolean
as true/false
rather than 1/0
* Added support for maxQueryTimeout
in Sesame2 provider
* Fixed blank node IRI mapping between frameworks and Virtuoso
* Fixed issue with insert data via Jena provider in XA transaction
* Fixed issue closing XA connection
* Fixed issue with DELETE
query
* Fixed issue with blank nodes in DELETE
constructor
* Fixed issues with Date/Time/DateTime literals
* Fixed corrupted literals with datatypes using Jena provider
* Removed deprecated class reference
---++++ JDBC Driver
* Added new methods setLogFileName
and getLogFileName
* Added new attribute "logFileName
" to VirtuosoDataSources
for logging support
* Fixed issues logging JDBC XA operations and JDBC RPC calls
* Fixed JDBC driver did not use SQL_TXN_ISOLATION
setting from init handshake
* Fixed throw exception when reading polygon geometry by JDBC
* Fixed issues with Date, Time and DateTime
* Fixed hang on PreparedStatement
when using setFetchSize()
method
---++++ Faceted Browser
* Added support for emitting HTML5+Microdata instead of RDFa as default HTML page
* Added query optimizations
* Added new footer icons to /describe
page
* Fixed support for deep graph ACL checks
* Fixed user switch
* Fixed serialization issue
* Fixed HTML content detection
* Fixed labels
* Fixed bad font on Chrome
---++++ Conductor and DAV
* Added support for VAD dependency tree
* Added support for default vdirs when creating new listeners
* Added support for private RDF graphs
* Added support for LDP in DAV API
* Added option to create shared folder if not present
* Added option to enable/disable DET graphs binding
* Added option to set content length threshold for asynchronous sponging
* Added folder option related to .TTL
redirection
* Added functions to edit turtle files
* Added popup dialog to search for unknown prefixes
* Added registry option to add missing prefixes for .TTL
files
* Fixed DETs to work with new private graphs
* Fixed conflict using graph for share and LDP in WAC DELETE
queries
* Fixed hrefs for resource paths in DAV browser
* Fixed issue deleting files from DAV
* Fixed issues with subfolders of ResFilter
and CatFilter
DETs
* Fixed labels
---+++ 2015-02-11 -- Virtuoso Open-Source Edition 7.2.0 Released
New product features as of February 22, 2015, v7.2.0, include:
---++++ Virtuoso Engine
* Added new threadsafe / reentrant SQL parser
* Added support for using TLSF library for page-maps
* Added support for setting SSL Protocols and Ciphers
* Added support for new Unicode-3 based collations
* Added support for custom HTTPLogFormat
* Added support for quality factor in accept headers
* Added rate limiter for bad connections
* Added ODBC 3.x alias for current_date
, current_time
and current_timestamp
* Improved cost based optimizer
* Improved LDP support
* Improved XPER support
* Improved CSV support
* Fixed handling of regexp cache size and pcre_match depth limit
* Fixed handling of multibyte strings
* Fixed handling of NVARCHAR
data with zeros in the middle
* Fixed handling of values in 10 day gap between Julian and Gregorian dates
* Fixed if expr in rdf object range condition, set super so they get placed once
* Fixed issue possibly reading freed block
* Fixed issue with TZ
field without separator
* Fixed issue with duplicate hashes
* Fixed issue with invariant predicates
* Fixed issue with non chash DISTINCT GROUP BY
with NULLs
* Fixed issue with user aggregates and chash flush
* Fixed issues with OUTER JOIN
, ORDER BY
, and GROUP BY
* Fixed sending IRI IDs to remotes when using 'WHERE 0
'
* Fixed use SHA256 as default for certificate signing
* Fixed memory leaks and memory fragmentation
* Fixed SSL read/write error condition
* Fixed Windows build
---++++ GEO functions
* Added support for SPARQL INSERT
with GEO literals
* Added support for upcoming proj4 plugin
* Fixed issue with RDF box with a geometry RDF type and a non-geometry content
* Fixed calculation of serialization lengths for GEO boxes
* Fixed compilation of a query with bif:st_intersects
inside SERVICE {}
* Fixed serialization of GEO boxes
* Fixed intersect to working with other GEO shapes
---++++ SPARQL
* Added new SPARQL pragma: define sql:comment 0/1
* Added indicator when max rows is returned on /sparql
endpoint
* Added new role, SPARQL_LOAD_SERVICE_DATA
* Added new client callable graph insert/delete/replace functions
* Added support for __tag
of UNAME
* Added support for multiple SPARQL UPDATE
commands
* Added support for xsd:gYear
and the like
* Added support for CASE x WHEN ...
and CASE WHEN
in SPARQL
* Added support for 'HTML with nice turtle' output format
* Added TransStepMode
option to virtuoso.ini
* Improved handling of FLOATs
and DOUBLEs
in SPARQL compiler
* Improved Turtle parser
* Fixed SPARQL DELETE DATA
when a complete RDF box w/o RO_ID
is passed as obj
* Fixed URI()
is synonym for IRI()
* Fixed equality of unames and strings, iri strings
* Fixed issue eliminating empty {}
in VALUE
join
* Fixed issue with R2RML
* Fixed issue with XMLA
* Fixed issue with base graph when using 'with_delete
' in bulkloader
* Fixed issue with multiple OPTIONAL
* Fixed issue with SPARQL ... WITH DELETE
on certain datatypes
* Fixed issue with VARBINARY
in RDF views
* Fixed printing optimized-away data rows of VALUES
in sparql_explain()
dump
* Fixed propagation of limits if SPART_VARR_EXTERNAL
or SPART_VARR_GLOBAL
variables present
* Fixed regression for SPARQL 1.1 VALUES
bindings
* Fixed sort accented letters from "ORDER BY
" in alphabetical order
* Fixed startup speed with many graph group members
---++++ Jena & Sesame
* Upgraded to Jena 2.12.0
* Added support for Bulk Loading
* Added support for Dataset method using defaultInsertGraph
and defaultRemoveGraph
* Fixed handling of blank nodes
* Fixed transaction handling
* Fixed NullPointerException
for SPARQL with OPTIONAL
* Fixed issue with statement leaks in older Virtuoso JDBC driver
* Fixed issue with class definitions and classcast exceptions
* Fixed issue with large datasets like Uniprot
---++++ JDBC Driver
* Enhanced Connection Pool implementation
* Added support for arrays for RDF Bulk loader
* Added JDBC4 compliant metadata required by JBOSS
* Fixed issue with statement leaks
* Fixed issue with RoundRobin
if server out of license
* Fixed issue with stored procedures returning multiple resultsets
* Fixed issue with rewind on Virtuoso BLOB
* Fixed issue with batch procedure execution
* Fixed issue with dates
* Fixed issue with SQL_UTF8_EXECS=1
* Fixed issue with JDBC testsuite
---++++ Faceted Browser
* Added support for graph selection and persist in FCT state
* Added support for link out icons on certain doc and image links
* Added new description and sponger options as entity link types
* Added option for JSON output to FCT service
* Added GROUP BY
to speed up DISTINCT
* Added precompiled queries to speed up usage.vsp
* Fixed base URI for crawlers
* Fixed color scheme
* Fixed graph perm check
* Fixed handling of foaf:depiction
* Fixed handling of iframe
* Fixed issue when lang
is missing to FCT service
* Fixed issue with dateTime
* Fixed issue with double quotes in literals
* Fixed issue with nodeID
* Fixed issue with null graphs
* Fixed labels
* Fixed links
---++ 2014 News Announcements
---+++ 2014-02-17 -- Virtuoso Open-Source Edition 7.1.0 Released
New product features as of February 17, 2014, v7.1.0, include:
---++++ Engine (SQL Relational Tables and RDF Property/Predicate Graphs)
* Enhancements to cost-based optimizer
* Added optimization when splitting on scattered INSERTs
* Added optimization on fetching col seg
* Added support for multi-threaded sync/flush
* Added support for ORDER
ed COUNT DISTINCT
and exact p stat
* Added new settings EnableMonitor
* Added BIFs
* key_delete_replay()
* set_by_graph_keywords()
* tweak_by_graph_keywords
* vec_length()
* vec_ref()
* x509_verify_array()
* xenc_x509_cert_verify_array()
* Added new functions
* bif_list_names()
* bif_metadata()
* Added new general-purpose HTTP auth procedure
* Added support for local dpipes
* Added support for session pool
* Added option to allow restricting number of id ranges for new IRIs
* Added support for execution profile in XML format
* Added support for PL-as-BIFs in SPARQL
* Improved I/O for geometries in SQL
* Fixed geo cost of non-point geos where no explicit prec
* Fixed re-entrant lexer
* Fixed RPC argument checks
* Fixed memory leaks
* Fixed compiler warnings
* Treat single db file as a single segment with one stripe
* Updated testsuite
---++++ Geometry functions
* Added initial support for
* geoc_epsilon()
* geometrytype()
* st_affine()
(2D trans only)
* st_geometryn()
* st_get_bounding_box_n()
* st_intersects()
* st_linestring()
* st_numgeometries()
* st_transform_by_custom_projection()
* st_translate()
* st_transscale()
* st_contains()
* st_may_contain()
* st_may_intersect()
* Added new BIFs for getting Z and M coords
* Added support for <(type,type,...)type::sql:function>
trick in order to eliminate conversion of types on function call
* Optimization in calculation of GCB steps to make number of chained blocks close to square root of length of the shape
* Fixed geo box support for large polygons
* Fixed mp_box_copy()
of long shapes
* Fixed range checks for coordinates
* Fixed calculation of lat/long ratio for proximity checks
* Fixed bboxes
in geo_deserialize
* Fixed check for NAN
and INF
in float valued geo inx
* Fixed check for NULL
arguments
* Minor fixes to other geo BIFs
---++++ Geometry Data Types
* Support for the following geometry data types are available
* Point
* MultiPoint
* LineString
* MultiLineString
* Box
* Polygon
* MultiPolygon
* GeometryCollection
---++++ SPARQL
* Added initial support for list of quad maps in SPARQL BI
* Added initial support for vectored IRI to ID
* Added initial support for SPARQL valid()
* Added new codegen for initial fill of RDB2RDF
* Added new settings CreateGraphKeywords
, QueryGraphKeywords
* Added new SPARQL triple/group/subquery options
* Added missing function rdf_vec_ins_triples
* Added application/x-nice-microdata
to supported SPARQL results output formats
* Added support for built-in inverse functions
* Added support for GEO-SPARQL wkt
type literal as synonym
* Added support for the '-' operator for datetime data types
* Fixed issues in handling GEO predicates in SPARQL
* Fixed RDF views to use multiple quad maps
* Fixed issues with UNION
and BREAKUP
* Fixed dynamic local for vectored
* Fixed Transitivity support for combination of T_DIRECTION 3
and T_STEP (var)
* Fixed handling of 30x redirects when calling remote endpoint
* Fixed support for MALLOC_DEBUG
inside SPARQL compiler
* Fixed TriG parser
---++++ Jena & Sesame
* Improved speed of batch delete
* Removed unnecessary check that graph exists after remove
* Removed unnecessary commits
* Replaced n.getLiteralValue().toString()
with n.getLiteralLexicalForm()
---++++ JDBC Driver
* Added statistics for Connection Pool
* Fixed speed of finalize
---++++ Conductor and DAV
* Added trigger to delete temporary graphs used for WebID verification
* Added new CONFIGURE
methods to DETs to unify folder creation
* Added new page for managing CA root certificates
* Added new pages for graph-level security
* Added verify for WebDAV DET folders
* Added creation of shared DET folders
* Fixed creation of ETAGs for DET resources
* Fixed DAV rewrite issue
* Fixed DAV to use proper escape for graphs when uploading
* Fixed issue deleting graphs
* Fixed issue uploading bad .TTL files
* Fixed issue with DAV QoS re-write rule for text/html
* Fixed issue with user dba
when creating DET folders
* Fixed normalize paths procedure in WebDAV
* Fixed reset connection variable before no file error
---++++ Faceted Browser
* Added missing grants
* Added graph param in FCT permalink
* Changed labels in LD views
* Changed default sort order to DATE (DESC)
* Copied virt_rdf_label.sql
locally
* Fixed double quote escaping in literals
* Fixed FCT datatype links
* Fixed the curie may contain UTF-8, so mark string accordingly
* Changed describe mode for PivotViewer link
---++ Older Virtuoso News
* [[VOSNews2013][2013]]
* [[VOSNews2012][2012]]
* [[VOSNews2011][2011]]
* [[VOSNews2010][2010]]
* [[VOSNews2009][2009]]
* [[VOSNews2008][2008]]
* [[VOSNews2007][2007]]
* [[VOSNews2006][2006]]
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