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Virtuoso Open Source Edition News (2012)
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2012 News Announcements
2012-08-02 -- Announcing Virtuoso Open-Source Edition v6.1.6
New product features as of August 2, 2012, v6.1.6, include:
Database engine
- Added support for SPARQL Service Description
- Added support for
SOUNDEX and DIFFERENCE
- Added support for
FROM SUBQUERY { ...
} in quad map
- Added optimizations to JSON parser
- Added support for SSL Certificate Chains
- Added WebID? protected endpoints templates
- Added error reporting if query compilation fails
- Added extra checks for db slices
- Added DSN names to
explain() output
- Added support for CORS in Web Services
- Added propagation of
LIMIT restrictions
- Added support for protocol switching, e.g., use of websockets
- Added generation of URL rewrite rules
- Fixed ETag calculation
- Fixed bad code for
CLEAR GRAPH <xxxx>
- Fixed buffer overflow when using wide chars
- Fixed check to prevent out of range seek
- Fixed clear errors on ODBC connection handle
- Fixed compiler warnings
- Fixed datetime conversion
- Fixed external vars in table subqueries of scalar subqueries
- Fixed
http_ses_arg is supposed to return ws_session
- Fixed issue with content type if already set by rewrite rule
- Fixed issue with transitive subqueries
- Fixed issue with "unknown BIF" message in SPARQL compiler error
- Fixed issue with Bison 2.6 code generation
- Fixed issue with
SERVICE
- Fixed issue with
UNIONs
- Fixed issue with incomplete RDF box
- Fixed memory leaks
- Fixed multi-column transitivity
- Fixed portability issues on FreeBSD?, Solaris, and Mac OS X
- Fixed print of built-in expressions with multi-part alias name
- Fixed use provided password from ODBC connect handle
- Fixed valgrind warnings
- Updated documentation
SPARQL and RDF
- Added auto-detection of RDFa and HTML+Microdata
- Added WebDAV
REPORT method support for versioning
- Added WebDAV DET folder type
- Added Wolfram|Alpha cartridge
- Added debug code for sponger
- Added
di: scheme
- Added extra debugging code to SPARQL engine
- Added new mime type
application/n-triples
- Added procedure view for SPARQL
BINDINGS
- Added
rdb2rdf VAD for R2RML functionality
- Added support for
INF, -INF, and NaN
- Added support for SPARQL 1.1
BINDINGS
- Added support for self-description
- Added support for hash-based proxy IRIs
- Added support for sponging of
ftp URLs
- Added support for subqueries inside
QUAP MAP { ...
} groups
- Added support for tab-separated-values (
TSV) output format in sparql
- Fixed
LOAD SERVICE <SPARQL-Endpoint-URL> DATA for SPARQL-FED
- Fixed access rights and status for
SPARUL_LOAD_SERVICE_DATA
- Fixed escaping of weird IRIs in RDF/XML output
- Fixed grants for
SPARQL LOAD SERVICE lt;...> DATA
- Fixed issue joining two federated queries to the same host
- Fixed issue with double "
AS" for lang in resultset
- Fixed issue with RDF View,
bif:contains and option(?score)
- Fixed issue with SPARQL-FED code generation
- Fixed issue with graph level security check in SPARQL-FED subquery
- Fixed issue with transitive query
- Fixed issue with
xsd:dateTime in SPARQL results
- Fixed issues loading microdata with namespace decls
- Fixed negation to use SPARQL 1.1
FILTER NOT EXISTS
- Fixed possible stack overflow on long
UNIONs
- Fixed resource name encoding problem
- Fixed service SPARQL codegen with zero retvals
- Fixed support for
SERVICE
- Improved error diagnostics for
ALTER QUAD STORAGE <...> { DROP }
- Removed test for
@rel, @rev, or @property from application/xhtml+xml
- Upgraded sesame driver to use Sesame 2.5.6
- Merged DBpedia VAD fixes
- Added registry setting
dbp_last_modification to get SP returning last modified date
- Added support for
If-Modified-Since
- Added support for
rel="nofollow" on external links
- Fixed XHTML+RDFa validation
- Fixed check if modified
- Fixed reset timezone
- Fixed use owl graph for properties
- Merged iSPARQL vad
- Added control for raw URIs in SPARQL result set view
- Added persistence in permalinks
- Added alternate links in <head />
- Added support to remember RDF display/tab
- Added support to remember previous tab
- Upgraded MAP support for latest OpenLayers/OpenStreetmap
- Disabled dysfunctional NASA blue marble tiles
ODS Applications
- Added initial API documentation + doxify templates
- Added advanced ACL settings for SPARQL or services authentication
- Added ACL filters
- Added support for mounting and WebID? ACL protection of DropBox?, Box.net/Box.com, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive? (formerly SkyDrive?) folders
- Added support for private graphs
- Fixed redirect
- Merged ODS Addressbook fixes
- Merged ODS Bookmark VAD
- Added Box (
box.net, box.com) folder definition
- Added default values for cartridges
- Added support for WebDAV DET
- Added support for private graphs
- Fixed bad owner in some DET resources
- Fixed permission problem for some DETs
- Updated S3 DET folders with support for WebID? ACLs
- Merged ODS Briefcase VAD
- Added ACL for IMAP DET folder
- Added mail notification for WebID? sharing
- Fixed problem with editing mounted resources
- Fixed resource server side encryption problem
- Fixed sponger association with DETs feature
- Merged ODS Calendar VAD
- Added CalDAV? and CardDAV? DETs, and RESTful CRUD
- Fixed WebID? write access
- Fixed daylight savings time on import to calendar
- Merged ODS Framework VAD
- Added Help links
- Added JSON output option for
certgen
- Added link tags to user's pages
- Fixed 'Enable Automatic WebID? Login' value
- Fixed private graphs init
- Fixed quotes on SPARQL vars
- Fixed remove session when ACL is altered
- Fixed REST interface page
- Fixed Semantic Pingback protocol
- Fixed void dset
- Updated CKeditor to version 3.6.3
2012-03-22 -- Source code migration from Soureforge CVS to Github
Virtuoso Open-Source development has moved to hosting at GitHub.
Developers who want to actively track progress of the Virtuoso source code and contribute bug fixes or enhancements to the project are cordially invited to join us there.
To check out a local copy of Virtuoso, please see our Git usage instructions, branching/tagging strategy, and Git quickstart tips.
2012-03-16 -- Announcing Virtuoso Open-Source Edition v6.1.5
New product features as of March 15, 2012, v6.1.5, include:
Database engine
- Added support for SPARQL 1.1
WITH, USING, NAMED
- Added support for SPARQL 1.1 Update
- Added support for SPARQL 1.1 Functions
- Added support for SPARQL Macro Library syntax
- Added support for SPARQL
DESCRIBE modalities via pragma options - "
OBJCBD" -- object-slot-based concise bound description
- "
SCBD" -- symmetrical concise bound description
- Changed default
SPARQL DESCRIBE/CONSTRUCT result set from BLOB to 3-column table when using SPASQL (SPARQL inside SQL) via ODBC/JDBC/ADO.NET (_JAVA_ or _UDBC_ for exceptions)
- Added support for wide strings in all SPARQL serializers
- Added common infrastructure for RDF-specific XML parsers
- Added new RDF/XML serializer (faster + pretty printing)
- Added TRIG formatter
- Added support for R2RML for generating Linked Data Views over ODBC- or ODBC-Bridge-accessible data sources and/or native Virtuoso RDBMS data
- Added support for HTML+Microdata
- Added human-readable HTML output for
DESCRIBE (list and table) to SPARQL endpoint
- Added support for
SELECT <scalar_expression> subqueries without FROM clause to avoid extra lock on fake subqueries
- Added DBpedia VAD package
- Added support for scoping ACL to a virtual folder
- Added new Visual Studio 11 project files for both 32-bit and 64-bit builds
- Fixed RDF/XML parser that passes W3C tests dated 2003-Nov.
- Fixed JSON-LD syntax to match recent draft of the spec
- Fixed
CONSTRUCT with constant string objects with language
- Fixed output of bnodes in RDF/XML format
- Fixed support for
SPARQL LOAD <file:///....>, i.e., file: scheme URIs with absolute paths from system root
- Fixed issue with uninitialized variables
- Fixed use portable method for escaping symbol for gawk 3 and 4
- Fixed issue with semaphores on Mac OS X 10.7
- Fixed compiler warnings
- Fixed memory leaks
- Updated documentation
SPARQL and RDF
- Added new cartridges for LinkedIn, AngelList, Klout, New York Times Article, Social Statistics, StackOverflow, etc.
- Added new ontologies for AngelList, X.509 Certificates, Crunchbase, DBpedia Spotlight, New York Times, LinkedIn, OpenLink Basic, OpenLink Web, etc.
- Added support for extracting all
META and LINK head-element data from XHTML documents
- Added post-processing script for generating
owl:sameAs links for co-reference resolution
- Added support for
get:soft "add" pragma for progressive Linked Data graph construction via Sponger
- Added support for paging over large collections to Facebook cartridge
- Fixed Amazon cartridge now works with new Product Advertising API
- Fixed handling of
# in About: header
- Fixed visually-qualifying
opl:mentions property values with source-cartridge identifier
- Fixed
social-profile-url property across social cartridges
ODS Applications
- Added support for WebID 1.0 spec
- Added support for CalDAV and CardDAV protocols
- Added ACL editing for DETs
- Added folder selection for SyncML
- Added option to import RDF data from file
- Added rule for briefcase folder IRIs
- Added VCARD Property Grouping
- Added private graphs data
- Added option to deactivate user
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