Announcing OpenLink Virtuoso, Open-Source Edition v5.0.9

Hi,

OpenLink Software is pleased to announce a new release of Virtuoso,
Open-Source Edition, version 5.0.9.

This version includes significant performance optimizations to the SQL
Engine, SPARQL+RDF Engine, ODBC and JDBC drivers.

New features include:
    * An Excel mime-type output option in the SPARQL endpoint
    * Enhanced triple options for bif:contains plus new options for
transitivity
    * New RDF-izer Cartridges for the Sponger RDF Middleware Layer
    * Incorporation of UMBEL lookups and Named Entity Extraction into
RDF-izer Cartridges
    * Support for very large HTTP client requests
    * A sparql-auth endpoint with digest authentication for using SPARUL
via SPARQL Protocol
    * New commands for the Ubiquity Firefox plugin

There are also minor bug-fixes:
    * memory leaks
    * SQL query syntax handling
    * SPARQL 'select distinct'
    * XHTML and javascript validation and other UI issues in the ODS
application suite

For more details, see the release notes:
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=626647&group_id=161622

Other links:

Virtuoso Open Source Edition:
    * Home Page: http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/
    * Download Page:
   http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/VOSDownload

OpenLink Data Spaces:
    * Home Page: http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/OdsIndex
    * SPARQL Usage Examples (re. SIOC, FOAF, AtomOWL, SKOS):
   http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/ODSSIOCRef

OpenLink AJAX Toolkit (OAT):
    * Project Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/oat
    * Live Demonstration: http://demo.openlinksw.com/oatdemo
    * Interactive SPARQL Demo: http://demo.openlinksw.com/isparql/

OpenLink Data Explorer (Firefox extension for RDF browsing):
    * Home Page: http://ode.openlinksw.com/

Regards,

~Tim
-- 
Tim Haynes
OpenLink Software
<http://www.openlinksw.com/>

Received on Thursday, 6 November 2008 10:51:17 UTC