BaseX 8.0: The XMLPrague 2015 Edition

Dear XML aficionados,

We are proud to present you Version 8.0 of BaseX, your XML database system and XQuery processor (http://basex.org)! It is being released in alignment with the XML Prague 2015 Conference. We provide you with quite a bunch of new and exciting features:

XQUERY - Support for XQuery 3.1 is nearly complete - We switched to a new default serialization ("adaptive") - Index rewritings have been improved, more precise cost estimations - MIXUPDATES option: update items and return results at the same time - New modules: Array and User Module - New annotations: %basex:inline, %basex:lazy - 13 of our modules were updated and extended

WEB APPLICATIONS - DBA: Database Administration in the Browser - RESTXQ: regular expressions in paths, support for quality factors - AUTHMETHOD option: choose between Basic and Digest authentication

STORAGE - Faster document index (storing paths to all XML documents) - Replace documents in-place whenever possible - Updatable index structures now take much less space - AUTOOPTIMIZE option: optimize after each update

SECURITY - Revised user management; users are stored as XML - Digest authentication, Salted SHA256 - Clients in various languages updated

GUI - Better code completions

The documentation is available at http://docs.basex.org. We are looking forward to your feedback,

Christian BaseX Team