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---+Virtuoso Open Source Edition News (2009)
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---++ Later Years
* [[VOSNews][2012 to present]]
* [[VOSNews2011][2011]]
* [[VOSNews2010][2010]]
---++ 2009
---+++ 2009-10-20: Announcing Virtuoso Open-Source Edition v6.0.0
OpenLink Software is pleased to announce the official release of Virtuoso Open-Source Edition, Version 6.0.0:
<i><b>***IMPORTANT NOTE***</b> The database format changed substantially between VOS 5.x and
VOS 6.x. To upgrade your database, you must dump all your data from
your VOS 5.0 database and re-load it into VOS 6.0.</i>
New product features include:
* [[VirtuosoFacetsWebService][Faceted Data Exploration Engine]] & Web Services (REST or SOAP)
for high-performance disambiguated entity search & find, across entity type and property dimensions
* <code>ANY ORDER</code> Queries
* Anytime Queries (basic and complex business intelligence style analytics queries)
* Client-level resource accounting
* Expressions in "<code>IN</code>" predicate
* Inverse Functional Property Value enhanced Identity
* Key compression
* Transitive subqueries in SQL, SPARQL, and SPASQL (ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, OLEDB, XMLA)
* Enhanced [[VirtSponger][Sponger Middleware Layer]]
* DBMS hosted Public Key Infrastructure for WebID Protocol based Federated Identity.
---+++ 2009-10-19: Announcing Virtuoso Open-Source Edition v5.0.12
OpenLink Software is pleased to announce a new release of Virtuoso,
Open-Source Edition, version 5.0.12
This version includes:
---++++ Database engine
* Added Public Key Infrastructure UI in conductor
* Added failover/roundrobin support for all client layers
* Added support for vectors in IN predicate
* Added various small engine optimizations and enhancements
* Refactored JDBC driver
* Imported PCRE version 7.9 from upstream project
* Fixed XA support
* Fixed performance of <code><nowiki>sprintf_more</nowiki></code> when using large buffers
* Fixed memory leaks
* Fixed HTTP various issues with <code>HEAD</code> and <code>POST</code>
* Fixed serialization on HTTP connection cache
* Fixed allow client to run during online backup
* Fixed small bugs and compiler warnings
---++++ SPARQL and RDF
* Added SPARQL graph-level security
* Added new RDFa parser
* Added support for Concise Bound Description
* Added optimization for <code>bif:COUNT</code>
* Added optimization for <code>OPTIONAL</code>
* Added support for <code>SCORE_LIMIT</code> in <code>bif:contains</code>
* Added support for <code>text/n3</code> mime type
* Added support for <code>NVARCHAR</code>, <code>BIGINT</code> in SPARQL and RDFViews
* Added support for exclude-result-prefixes
* Added support to crawl with multiple threads
* Added support for NQUAD, JSON and N-Triples
* Added support for DSA certificates
* Added MS Docs, Open Office, Google app cartridges
* Added CNET, YELP, TESCO, ZILLOW cartridges
* Added <nowiki>GoodRelations</nowiki>, <nowiki>GeoNames</nowiki>, <nowiki>BestBuy</nowiki> cartridges
* Added Alchemy, Yahoo Boss, Picasa, haudio cartridges
* Added cache for common ontologies
* Improved support for <code>rdf:XMLLiteral</code> exp in RDF loaders
* Fixed handling of special characters in IRI
* Fixed RDF view generation
* Fixed and enhanced <code>description.vsp</code>
* Fixed and enhanced iSPARQL
* Fixed charset handling for cartridges
---++++ ODS Applications
* Added checks for dynamic local
* Added expiration so sponger can track changes
* Added support for conversations
* Added '<code>GROUP BY</code>' handling for listed messages
* Added 'Related' section in posts
* Added new API and Ubiquity commands
* Added hCard microformat
* Added Ontology based editing
* Added OpenSearch support
* Added support for Smart Folders
* Fixed <nowiki>OpenID</nowiki>, WebID Protocol
* Fixed wiki attachments "upstreaming"
* Fixed RDF gems
* Fixed UI profile
* Fixed mail filters
* Fixed <code>atom-pub</code> protocol
* Fixed rewrite rules
* Fixed tag URIs
* Fixed small bugs
---+++ 2009-04-22: Announcing Virtuoso Open-Source Edition v6.0 Technology Preview 1
<i><b>***IMPORTANT NOTE***</b> The database format has substantially changed between VOS 5.x and
VOS 6.x. To upgrade your database, you must dump all your data from
your VOS 5.0 database and re-load it into VOS 6.0.</i>
Currently under very active development, this introduces a new branch for Virtuoso
with:
* ANY ORDER Queries
* Anytime Queries
* Client-level resource accounting
* Expressions in "<code>IN</code>" predicate
* Facet Browsing Engine
* Inverse Functional Property Value enhanced Identity
* Key compression
* Transitive subqueries in both SQL and SPARQL
---+++ 2009-04-22: Announcing Virtuoso Open-Source Edition v5.0.11
This version includes:
---++++ Database engine
* Added x.509 Certificate Generation & Management functions
* Improvements to session-handling (<code>strses</code>) to avoid temp-files and
improve threading support
* Added initial support for gzipped stream session
* Added support for HTTP, socks4 and socks5 proxying with
authentication options
* Added support for URIQA methods in <code>http_client()</code>
* Added support for gunzip in <code>http_client</code>
* Various fixes for FT optimization, fractions in datetime,
checkpoint-rollback and the compile/build process.
---++++ SPARQL and RDF
* Added compiler extensions for SPARQL graph-level security
* Added initial implementation of RDF graph-level security metadata
functions
* Added initial infrastructure for new SPARQL result serialization
* Added support for <code><nowiki>SSG_VALMODE_SHORT_OR_LONG</nowiki></code>
* Added support for define <code>sparql-get:proxy</code> for RDF mappers
* Enhanced N3 syntax support
* Added support for XML literals in RDF/XML, SPARQL XML resultset and
JSON outputs
* Enhanced speed of TTL output
* Fixed SPARQL/SPARUL security
* [[http://www.w3.org/TR/void/][VoID]] graph generation for describing Quad Store
---++++ Sponger Cartridges Related
* Added U.S. Congress Web service
* Added Del.icio.us Tag Lookup Meta Cartridge
* Added <nowiki>GoodRelations</nowiki> and Barters for eCommerce Services
* Added NYT Articles Lookup Meta Cartridge
* Added OpenStreetMap Cartridge
* Added O'Reilly Books Catalog Lookup Meta Cartridge
* Added PowerPoint (PPTX) Cartridge
* Added SCOT based Tag Cloud
* Added Technocrati Lookup Meta Cartridge
* Misc. fixes
* Fixed GPF in rare case when using <code>NOT FROM / NOT FROM NAMED</code>
* Fixed handling of class instance array
* Fixed i18N issues with freetext search in RDF
* Fixed i18N serialization of RDF/XML box
* Fixed incorrect result when <code>Accept</code> is set to "<code>text/rdf-n3</code>"
* Fixed passing retvals of variables from <code>OPTION()</code>, like <code>?SCORE ?x</code>,
from deeply nested subselects
---++++ ODS Applications
* Added WebID Protocol and WebID Protocol+<nowiki>OpenID</nowiki>
* Added Bibliographical ontology usage in ODS Graph
* Added Calendar API and upstream commands
* Added "One-Click" X.509 Certificate, Private Key generation plus
Browser import, and write to FOAF profile
* Added Messaging Services
* Added Relationships Ontology terms to ODS-AddressBook for qualifying
relationships in Social Network
* Added Biographical Ontology terms added to Profile Page UI
* Added Support for MS Live Contacts API
* Additional Ubiquity commands for relationship qualification in Social
Network data spaces
* Added Support for Portable contacts API
* Fixed <nowiki>OpenID</nowiki> registration/auth in WebID Protocol+<nowiki>OpenID</nowiki> implementation
---+++ 2009-02-15: Announcing Virtuoso Open-Source Edition v5.0.10
This version includes:
---++++ Database engine
* Initial support for JDBC 4.x in the JDBC Driver
* Self-signed certificates and optional client-verification in HTTPS
* HTTP ACLs for rate-limiting
* A new `TOP(N, -1)' function for skipping N rows prior to resultset
construction
* New INI-file options: <code>LiteMode</code> and <code>DisableTcpSocket</code> for thinner embeddable
RDF or SQL RDBMS operation; <code>RdfFreeTextRulesSize</code> and <code>IndexTreeMaps</code> for better memory control
* Fixes for a deadlock handler bug and various 64-bit issues and compiler
warnings
* Performance optimizations in the core database engine
---++++ RDF Data Management & Data Access
* New Meta Cartridges for UMBEL, Calais, Zemanta, Hoovers and the
New York Times
* New Sponger cartridges for AB Meta, Last.FM, Twitter, Meetup.com,
LibraryThing, SalesForce.com, RadioPop, Rhapsody
* Added support for WebID Protocol
* New (X)HTML browser page for RDF Linked Data
* SPASQL <code>ExtendedString</code> and <code>RdfBox</code> types in .NET
* new CURIE-generation functions
* Amazon S3 DET and WebDAV mounting
* improved Turtle output presentation
* Various SPARQL and SPARUL updates and extensions and fixes
* Automated generating OWL from DB schema
* Fixed memory leaks
---++++ ODS Application suite
* New OAuth support
* Support for WebID Protocol self-signed certificates written to in FOAF-based
member profiles
* Support for Amazon S3 folders in ODS-Briefcase
* New contact fields in ODS-AddressBook
* Ubiquity commands for interacting with all Data Spaces programmatically
---++ Previous Years
* [[VOSNews2008][2008]]
* [[VOSNews2007][2007]]
* [[VOSNews2006][2006]]
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