Changelog

The following features have been added, updated, or removed in BaseX 12:

Startup

• Updated: Switched to Java 17

Database Server

• Updated: An initial admin password is generated and written to the logs.

Web Application

• Updated: BaseX is now based on Jetty 12.
• Updated: An initial admin password is generated and written to the logs.

Command-Line Options

• Added: -O to set an option (standalone, client).

Options

• Added: LOGEXCLUDE, LOGCUT: Filter and preprocess log entries.
• Added: LOGMASKIP: Anonymize IP addresses.
• Added: DTDVALIDATION, XSDVALIDATION: Perform DTD or XSD validation.
• Updated: LOG: Support for different log targets.
• Updated: XINCLUDE: New default: false.
• Updated: LOGMSGMAXLEN: Increased from 1000 to 5000

XQuery 4.0

• Added: Map Order: The insertion order is preserved when creating maps.
• Added: Pipeline Operator: Example: (1 to 5) -> count(.).
• Added: Type declarations. Example: declare type person as element(person).
• Added: Record types. Example: { 'a': 1 } instance of record(a).
• Added: Record declarations. Example: declare record coord(x, y).
• Added: While clause. Example: for $i in 1 to 5 while ($i * $i) < 10 return $i.
• Added: Map and array filter. Example: [ 1, 2, 3 ]?[. != 2].
• Added: Methods: functions belonging to maps.
• Added: Retrieval of stack trace in errors. Example: $err:stack-trace.
• Added: Finally block: The try/catch expression has a new finally clause.
• Added: QName Literals: Example: error(#err:UNEXPECTED).
• Updated: Multiple node tests can be supplied with an axis. Example: child::(element()|text()).
• Updated: Document node tests with name of root node. Example: $node instance of document-node(root).
• Updated: QName literals in node constructors: element #div {}.

Invisible XML

• Updated: Argument $grammar can alternatively be passed in XML representation.

Array Functions

• Added: array:items, array:members.
• Updated: array:get: Default parameter added.
• Updated: array:join

CSV Functions

• Added: Options: row-delimiter, quote-character, trim-whitespace, trim-rows, strict-quoting, select-columns options.
• Updated: W3 Conversion Format: Revised (old name: xquery): Renamed, more options, header represented as sequence.
• Updated: Options: separator renamed to field-delimiter.

Database Functions

• Added: db:option-map, db:property-map.
• Updated: error code db:open changed to db:get.

HTML Functions

• Added: support for using Validator.nu

Job Functions

• Added: job:execute

JSON Functions

• Updated: W3 Conversion Format: Renamed (old name: xquery), w3-xml: Renamed (old name: basic).

Map Functions

• Added: map:items, map:of-pairs, map:pairs.
• Updated: map:merge, map:build and map:of-pairs unified.
• Updated: map:get: Default parameter added.

Process Functions

• Updated: proc:system: environment option added.

Profiling Functions

• Added: prof:shrink: Reduces the memory consumption of the specified value.
• Updated: prof:variables: Result contains all currently declared variables.
• Updated: prof:runtime: Argument has become optional.
• Updated: prof:memory, prof:time: Aggregate parameter added.
• Updated: prof:type: String output revised, label parameter added.

Request Functions

• Added: request:parameter-map, request:header-map, request:cookie-map, request:attribute-map.

Standard Functions

• Added: fn:civil-timezone, fn:collation, fn:collation-available, fn:csv-doc, fn:csv-to-arrays, fn:csv-to-xml, fn:divide-decimals, fn:function-identity, fn:html-doc, fn:load-xquery-module, fn:parse-csv, fn:parse-html, fn:parse-uri, fn:partial-apply, fn:siblings, fn:sort-by, fn:type-of, fn:unparsed-binary.
• Updated: fn:apply, fn:function-annotations, fn:hash, fn:doc, fn:doc-available, fn:path, fn:parse-json, fn:parse-xml, fn:parse-xml-fragment, fn:replace, fn:round, fn:sequence-join.

Utility Functions

• Added: util:map-key-at, util:map-value-at, util:values-except (mostly utilized by internal optimizations).

XQuery Extensions

• Deleted: Stack trace output with $err:additional; replaced with $err:stack-trace.

Developer Section

• Deleted: WebDAV implementation, due to outdated Milton library and compromising dependencies.

RESTXQ

• Added: HTTP Methods: Support for PATCH method added.

Permissions

• Added: Checking Permissions: Direct access to HTTP request headers and query parameters.

Parsers

• Added: HTMLPARSER option method=nu.