[ANNOUNCE] Apache Jena 3.0.0 released

Apache Jena is an open source Java-based framework for building Semantic 
Web and Linked Data applications.  It includes an RDF SPARQL data 
publishing server, Apache Jena Fuseki.

The Apache Jena developer community is pleased to announce the release 
of Apache Jena 3.0.0. This is a major release and is not a drop-in 
replacement for Jena 2.13.0  Some changes to application code are likely 
to be needed.

Major changes:

* RDF 1.1 Semantics for plain literals

"abc" and "abc"^^xsd:string are the same RDF term in RDF 1.1.
Persistent data (TDB, SDB) should be reloaded, especially data that uses 
the explicitly typed xsd:string form.

* Package renaming

Packages with a base name of "com.hp.hpl.jena" become "org.apache.jena".
Vocabularies are not affected.

* Java8 is required.

For more details, please see
http://jena.apache.org/documentation/migrate_jena2_jena3.html


There are also several significant contributions to the Jena text 
indexing module including deletion support and multi-language support. 
See the documentation for details.

== Obtaining Apache Jena 3.0.0

= Via central.maven.org

The main jars and their dependencies can used with:

    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.jena</groupId>
      <artifactId>apache-jena-libs</artifactId>
      <type>pom</type>
      <version>3.0.0</version>
    </dependency>

Full details of all maven artifacts are described at:

      http://jena.apache.org/download/maven.html

= As binary downloads

Apache Jena libraries are available as a binary distribution of
libraries. Apache Jena Fuseki (versions 1 and 2) are available as binary 
distribution (as well as in maven). For details of a global mirror copy 
of all Jena binaries please see:

http://jena.apache.org/download/index.cgi

= Source code for the release

The signed source code of this release is available at:

http://www.apache.org/dist/jena/source/

and the signed master source for all Apache Jena releases is available
at: http://archive.apache.org/dist/jena/

      The Apache Jena developer community

Received on Friday, 31 July 2015 17:06:25 UTC