Virtuoso Open Source Edition News (2009)

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2009

2009-10-20: Announcing Virtuoso Open-Source Edition v6.0.0

OpenLink Software is pleased to announce the official release of Virtuoso Open-Source Edition, Version 6.0.0:

New product features include:

• Faceted Data Exploration Engine & Web Services (REST or SOAP) for high-performance disambiguated entity search & find, across entity type and property dimensions
• ANY ORDER Queries
• Anytime Queries (basic and complex business intelligence style analytics queries)
• Client-level resource accounting
• Expressions in "IN" predicate
• Inverse Functional Property Value enhanced Identity
• Key compression
• Transitive subqueries in SQL, SPARQL, and SPASQL (ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, OLEDB, XMLA)
• Enhanced Sponger Middleware Layer
• DBMS hosted Public Key Infrastructure for WebID? Protocol based Federated Identity.

2009-10-19: Announcing Virtuoso Open-Source Edition v5.0.12

OpenLink Software is pleased to announce a new release of Virtuoso, Open-Source Edition, version 5.0.12

This version includes:

Database engine

• Added Public Key Infrastructure UI in conductor
• Added failover/roundrobin support for all client layers
• Added support for vectors in IN predicate
• Added various small engine optimizations and enhancements
• Refactored JDBC driver
• Imported PCRE version 7.9 from upstream project
• Fixed XA support
• Fixed performance of sprintf_more when using large buffers
• Fixed memory leaks
• Fixed HTTP various issues with HEAD and POST
• Fixed serialization on HTTP connection cache
• Fixed allow client to run during online backup
• Fixed small bugs and compiler warnings

SPARQL and RDF

• Added SPARQL graph-level security
• Added new RDFa parser
• Added support for Concise Bound Description
• Added optimization for bif:COUNT
• Added optimization for OPTIONAL
• Added support for SCORE_LIMIT in bif:contains
• Added support for text/n3 mime type
• Added support for NVARCHAR, BIGINT in SPARQL and RDFViews
• Added support for exclude-result-prefixes
• Added support to crawl with multiple threads
• Added support for NQUAD, JSON and N-Triples
• Added support for DSA certificates
• Added MS Docs, Open Office, Google app cartridges
• Added CNET, YELP, TESCO, ZILLOW cartridges
• Added GoodRelations, GeoNames, BestBuy cartridges
• Added Alchemy, Yahoo Boss, Picasa, haudio cartridges
• Added cache for common ontologies
• Improved support for rdf:XMLLiteral exp in RDF loaders
• Fixed handling of special characters in IRI
• Fixed RDF view generation
• Fixed and enhanced description.vsp
• Fixed and enhanced iSPARQL
• Fixed charset handling for cartridges

ODS Applications

• Added checks for dynamic local
• Added expiration so sponger can track changes
• Added support for conversations
• Added 'GROUP BY' handling for listed messages
• Added 'Related' section in posts
• Added new API and Ubiquity commands
• Added hCard microformat
• Added Ontology based editing
• Added OpenSearch? support
• Added support for Smart Folders
• Fixed OpenID, WebID? Protocol
• Fixed wiki attachments "upstreaming"
• Fixed RDF gems
• Fixed UI profile
• Fixed mail filters
• Fixed atom-pub protocol
• Fixed rewrite rules
• Fixed tag URIs
• Fixed small bugs

2009-04-22: Announcing Virtuoso Open-Source Edition v6.0 Technology Preview 1

Currently under very active development, this introduces a new branch for Virtuoso with:

• ANY ORDER Queries
• Anytime Queries
• Client-level resource accounting
• Expressions in "IN" predicate
• Facet Browsing Engine
• Inverse Functional Property Value enhanced Identity
• Key compression
• Transitive subqueries in both SQL and SPARQL

2009-04-22: Announcing Virtuoso Open-Source Edition v5.0.11

This version includes:

Database engine

• Added x.509 Certificate Generation & Management functions
• Improvements to session-handling (strses) to avoid temp-files and improve threading support
• Added initial support for gzipped stream session
• Added support for HTTP, socks4 and socks5 proxying with authentication options
• Added support for URIQA methods in http_client()
• Added support for gunzip in http_client
• Various fixes for FT optimization, fractions in datetime, checkpoint-rollback and the compile/build process.

SPARQL and RDF

• Added compiler extensions for SPARQL graph-level security
• Added initial implementation of RDF graph-level security metadata functions
• Added initial infrastructure for new SPARQL result serialization
• Added support for SSG_VALMODE_SHORT_OR_LONG
• Added support for define sparql-get:proxy for RDF mappers
• Enhanced N3 syntax support
• Added support for XML literals in RDF/XML, SPARQL XML resultset and JSON outputs
• Enhanced speed of TTL output
• Fixed SPARQL/SPARUL security
• VoID graph generation for describing Quad Store

Sponger Cartridges Related

• Added U.S. Congress Web service
• Added Del.icio.us Tag Lookup Meta Cartridge
• Added GoodRelations and Barters for eCommerce Services
• Added NYT Articles Lookup Meta Cartridge
• Added OpenStreetMap? Cartridge
• Added O'Reilly Books Catalog Lookup Meta Cartridge
• Added PowerPoint? (PPTX) Cartridge
• Added SCOT based Tag Cloud
• Added Technocrati Lookup Meta Cartridge
• Misc. fixes
• Fixed GPF in rare case when using NOT FROM / NOT FROM NAMED
• Fixed handling of class instance array
• Fixed i18N issues with freetext search in RDF
• Fixed i18N serialization of RDF/XML box
• Fixed incorrect result when Accept is set to "text/rdf-n3"
• Fixed passing retvals of variables from OPTION(), like ?SCORE ?x, from deeply nested subselects

ODS Applications

• Added WebID? Protocol and WebID? Protocol+OpenID
• Added Bibliographical ontology usage in ODS Graph
• Added Calendar API and upstream commands
• Added "One-Click" X.509 Certificate, Private Key generation plus Browser import, and write to FOAF profile
• Added Messaging Services
• Added Relationships Ontology terms to ODS-AddressBook? for qualifying relationships in Social Network
• Added Biographical Ontology terms added to Profile Page UI
• Added Support for MS Live Contacts API
• Additional Ubiquity commands for relationship qualification in Social Network data spaces
• Added Support for Portable contacts API
• Fixed OpenID registration/auth in WebID? Protocol+OpenID implementation

2009-02-15: Announcing Virtuoso Open-Source Edition v5.0.10

This version includes:

Database engine

• Initial support for JDBC 4.x in the JDBC Driver
• Self-signed certificates and optional client-verification in HTTPS
• HTTP ACLs for rate-limiting
• A new `TOP(N, -1)' function for skipping N rows prior to resultset construction
• New INI-file options: LiteMode? and DisableTcpSocket? for thinner embeddable RDF or SQL RDBMS operation; RdfFreeTextRulesSize? and IndexTreeMaps? for better memory control
• Fixes for a deadlock handler bug and various 64-bit issues and compiler warnings
• Performance optimizations in the core database engine

RDF Data Management & Data Access

• New Meta Cartridges for UMBEL, Calais, Zemanta, Hoovers and the New York Times
• New Sponger cartridges for AB Meta, Last.FM, Twitter, Meetup.com, LibraryThing?, SalesForce.com, RadioPop?, Rhapsody
• Added support for WebID? Protocol
• New (X)HTML browser page for RDF Linked Data
• SPASQL ExtendedString? and RdfBox? types in .NET
• new CURIE-generation functions
• Amazon S3 DET and WebDAV mounting
• improved Turtle output presentation
• Various SPARQL and SPARUL updates and extensions and fixes
• Automated generating OWL from DB schema
• Fixed memory leaks

ODS Application suite

• New OAuth support
• Support for WebID? Protocol self-signed certificates written to in FOAF-based member profiles
• Support for Amazon S3 folders in ODS-Briefcase
• New contact fields in ODS-AddressBook?
• Ubiquity commands for interacting with all Data Spaces programmatically

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