RC5 was released on November 21, 2018 so there are a number of new features and bug fixes to grab your interest in RC 6.
Features:
- New De-duplicating BLOB store for binary documents – see https://blog.adamretter.org.uk/blob-deduplication/
- More elaborate XPath expressions in the Lucene index config of
collection.xconfare now supported - New non-blocking lock-free implementation of the Transaction Manager
- CData serialization now respects the
output:cdata-section-elementsoption - New XQuery function
util:eval-and-serializefor dynamic XQuery evaluation and serialization. - New XQuery function
util:binary-doc-content-digestto retrieve a digest of a Binary Document - … and others.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed Lucene term range queries
- Copying an XML Resource now correctly removes any nodes that it replaces
- Fixed a memory leak with XQuery serializers
- Fixed Garbage Collection churn issue with serialization
- Fixed Backup/Restore progress reporting
- XQuery Library Modules on the Java Classpath are now correctly resolved from the importing XQuery module
- … and others.
Although not ready for production, these new features and bug fixes should have you scurrying to download eXist-db 5.0.0 RC6!
PS: Remember there are only 48 days left for paper submissions to Balisage 2019! Are you going to be using the latest RC for eXist?