Important Bug Fixes

• A long standing bug caused 0-byte XML documents to appear in database collections. The bug occurred randomly. The document showed up in the collection but was empty when opened.
• Wrong nodes being returned as the result of an XQuery predicate using a range index. Serializing the returned sequence would show seemingly random nodes from the same document.
• Several issues and regressions concerning handling binary resources have been fixed.

Features

• XSuite - Proper integration between JUnit, and XQSuite and XML XQuery tests.
• Add more Travis CI JDKs (including Java 9).
• Support more locales for month and day names in format-date.
• Add support for charset encoding from http response.
• Updates:
  • Jetty 9.4.9.v20180320
  • YAJSW 12.12
  • AspectJ 1.9.0.RC4
  • cglib 3.2.6
  • j8fu 1.13
  • Jackson 2.9.4
  • jctools 2.1.2
  • log4j 2.11.0
  • Commons Compress 1.16.1
  • Apache HTTP Components 4.5.5

Performance Improvements

• Switch to non-concurrent ByteArrayOutputStream.

Bug Fixes

• Fix regression with binary values from files and strings.
• Fix parsing of QNames in XQuery: The XQuery parser ignored whitespace when parsing a qname, leading to a wrong interpretation of ':' in some contexts, e.g. map constructors.
• Close input stream in fn:json-doc.
• Enable previously disabled tests.
• Fix wildcard lookup in ft:query.
• Align xml:id handling with saxon and basex.
• Closing inputstreams and improve ByteArrayOutputStream usage.

Apps

The bundled applications of eXide, and Monex have all been updated to the latest versions.

Backwards Compatibility

• eXist-db v4.1.0 is backwards binary-compatible as far as v3.0, but not with earlier versions. Users who are upgrading should always consult the Upgrading Guide in the documentation.
• NOTE: The version of Dashboard that was installed with eXist-db 3.6.1 (or earlier) is incompatible with eXist-db 4.0.0 and later. If you plan to migrate your entire database to eXist-db 4.1.0, you MUST take one of the following steps to allow Dashboard to work after the upgrade:
  1. If you have not yet installed eXist-db 4.1.0, open Dashboard > Package Manager, and upgrade Dashboard to 0.4.10, or run this script in eXide or the Java Admin Client: repo:install-and-deploy("http://exist-db.org/apps/dashboard", "http://demo.exist-db.org/exist/apps/public-repo/modules/find.xql"). Then you may safely install eXist-db 4.0.0 and use Dashboard.
  2. If you install eXist-db 4.1.0 before upgrading Dashboard, run this script in eXide or the Java Admin Client: repo:install-and-deploy("http://exist-db.org/apps/dashboard", "http://demo.exist-db.org/exist/apps/public-repo/modules/find.xql"). Then you may use Dashboard.

Downloading This Version

• eXist-db v4.1.0 is available for download from Bintray.
• Docker images for are available from EvolvedBinary's DockerHub.
• Maven artifacts are available from our mvn-repo.
• Mac users of the Homebrew package repository may acquire eXist 4.1.0 directly from there.