[ANN] Sesame 2.6.0 released

Sesame 2.6.0
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We are very pleased to announce the release of Sesame 2.6.0. This is a 
major new release with some very exciting features, most importantly:

- SPARQL 1.1 Federation support

Sesame 2.6.0 features support for the SPARQL 1.1 Query Language 
Federation extension as specified in the Last Call Working Draft[1]. 
This enables the incredibly powerful possibility to directly query and 
integrate data from any public SPARQL endpoint.

- SPARQL Repository

The SPARQLRepository enables you to programmaticaly connect to any 
SPARQL endpoint via the Repository API. It also offers the option to 
send custom HTTP headers (for example API keys) to endpoints which 
require this.

- User-configurable parser behavior in Repository API

You can now configure the way the parser handles validation, errors, and 
datatypes verification when uploading a file directly via the Repository 
API.

Apart from these features the release includes a number of bugfixes and 
minor improvements, see the Changelog [2] for full details.

The SPARQL 1.1 federation extensions in Sesame 2.6.0 have been 
contributed by fluidOps (http://www.fluidops.com/), in cooperation with 
Ontotext (http://www.ontotext.com/) and Aduna 
(http://www.aduna-software.com/).

As usual, the latest Sesame release can be downloaded at 
http://www.openrdf.org/download.jsp.

We hope you enjoy the new features and look forward to receiving your 
feedback.

Regards,

The Sesame development team

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-sparql11-query-20110512/
[2] 
http://www.openrdf.org/issues/browse/SES?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:changelog-panel

Received on Wednesday, 19 October 2011 21:22:46 UTC