Christian Grün writes:
We are very happy to announce the release of BaseX 9.0!
The new version of our XML database system and XQuery 3.1 processor includes some great new features and a vast number of minor improvements and optimizations. It’s both the usage of BaseX in productive environments as well as the valuable feedback of our open source users that make BaseX better and better, and that allow and motivate us to keep going. Thanks to all of you!
Along with the new release, we invite you to visit our relaunched homepage: http://basex.org/.
Java 8 is now required to run BaseX. The most prominent features of Version 9.0 are:
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Sorry! No spoilers here! Grab a copy of BaseX 9.0 and read Christian’s post for the details.
Take 229 days until the US mid-term elections (November 6, 2018) as fair warning that email leaks are possible (likely?) between now and election day.
The better your skills with BaseX, the better change you have to interfere with, sorry, participate in the 2018 election cycle.
Good luck to us all!