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eXist-db 4.6.0

by admin at 2019/02/20 at 09:18:23 z
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v4.6.0 - February 19, 2019

eXist-db 4.6.0 has been released.

eXist-db 4.6.0 builds atop eXist-db 4.6.0 with several new features and important bug fixes.

Features

  • New De-duplicationg BLOB store for binary documents - see https://blog.adamretter.org.uk/blob-deduplication/
  • More elaborate XPath expressions in the Lucene index config of collection.xconf are now supported
  • New non-blocking lock-free implementation of the Transaction Manager
  • CData serialization now respects the output:cdata-section-elements option
  • New XQuery function util:eval-and-serialize for dynamic XQuery evaluation and serialization.
  • New XQuery function util:binary-doc-content-digest to retrieve a digest of a Binary Document
  • Adaptive serialization is now used for fn:trace and util:log-* functions
  • Updated Jetty to version 9.4.14.v20181114
  • Updated to JLine version 3
  • Updated to XML:DB API 1.7.0

Bug fixes

  • Fixed Lucene term range queries
  • Copying an XML Resource now correctly removes any nodes that it replaces
  • Fixed a memory leak with XQuery serializers
  • Fixed Garbage Collection churn issue with serialization
  • Fixed Backup/Restore progress reporting
  • XQuery Library Modules on the Java Classpath are now correctly resolved from the importing XQuery module
  • Prevent a NullPointerException in fn:unparsed-text-available
  • Collection permissions are now correctly prefixed 'c' in the Java Admin Client shell
  • Fixed an ArrayOutOfBoundException with array:get
  • Corrected the XPath Error Code for array:get
  • Fixed text alignment of output in the Java Admin Client shell
  • Fixed missing dependencies issue with the Java Admin Client when launched via WebStart
  • When building from source, if required XAR packages are not available, the build will now fail.

Backwards Compatibility

eXist-db 4.6.0 is not binary compatible with previous versions of eXist-db (including earlier 4.5.x releases) because of new BLOB Store, which required changes to the collections.dbx and Journal. Before upgrading to this version of eXist-db, you MUST perform a full backup and restore. Users who are upgrading should always consult the Upgrading Guide in the documentation.

Downloading this Version

  • eXist-db v4.6.0 is available for download from GitHub.
  • Docker images for are available from eXist-db's DockerHub.
  • Maven artifacts are available from our mvn-repo.
  • Mac users of the Homebrew package repository may acquire eXist 4.6.0 directly from there via. the exist-db-rc cask.