New Features Enhancements to 6.0-TP1 Currently best suited to developers, this introduces a new branch for Virtuoso with: ANY ORDER Queries Anytime Queries Client-level resource accounting Expressions in "IN" predicate Facet Browsing Engine Inverse Functional Property Value enhanced Identity Key compression Transitive subqueries in both SQL and SPARQL For more details, see the release notes: https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=161622&release_id=677866Other links:Virtuoso Open Source Edition: Home Page: http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/ Download Page: http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/VOSDownload OpenLink Data Spaces: Home Page: http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/OdsIndex SPARQL Usage Examples (re. SIOC, FOAF, AtomOWL, SKOS): http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/ODSSIOCRef OpenLink AJAX Toolkit (OAT): Project Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/oat Live Demonstration: http://demo.openlinksw.com/oatdemo Interactive SPARQL Demo: http://demo.openlinksw.com/isparql/ OpenLink Data Explorer (Firefox extension for RDF browsing): Home Page: http://ode.openlinksw.com/ Enhancements to v5.0.11 This version includes: Database engine - Added x.509 Certificate Generation & Management functions - Improvements to session-handling (strses) to avoid temp-files and improve threading support - Added initial support for gzipped stream session - Added support for HTTP, socks4 and socks5 proxying with authentication options - Added support for URIQA methods in http_client() - Added support for gunzip in http_client - Various fixes for FT optimization, fractions in datetime, checkpoint-rollback and the compile/build process. SPARQL and RDF - Added compiler extensions for SPARQL graph-level security - Added initial implementation of RDF graph-level security metadata functions - Added initial infrastructure for new SPARQL result serialization - Added support for SSG_VALMODE_SHORT_OR_LONG - Added support for define sparql-get:proxy for RDF mappers - Enhanced N3 syntax support - Added support for XML literals in RDF/XML, SPARQL XML resultset and JSON outputs - Enhanced speed of TTL output - Fixed SPARQL/SPARUL security - [[http://www.w3.org/TR/void/][VoID]] graph generation for describing Quad Store Sponger Cartridges Related - Added U.S. Congress Web service - Added Del.icio.us Tag Lookup Meta Cartridge - Added GoodRelations and Barters for eCommerce Services - Added NYT Articles Lookup Meta Cartridge - Added OpenStreetMap Cartridge - Added O'Reilly Books Catalog Lookup Meta Cartridge - Added PowerPoint (PPTX) Cartridge - Added SCOT based Tag Cloud - Added Technocrati Lookup Meta Cartridge - Misc. fixes - Fixed GPF in rare case when using NOT FROM / NOT FROM NAMED - Fixed handling of class instance array - Fixed i18N issues with freetext search in RDF - Fixed i18N serialization of RDF/XML box - Fixed incorrect result when Accept is set to "text/rdf-n3" - Fixed passing retvals of variables from OPTION(), like ?SCORE ?x, from deeply nested subselects ODS Applications - Added FOAF+SSL and FOAF+SSL+OpenID - Added Bibliographical ontology usage in ODS Graph - Added Calendar API and upstream commands - Added "One-Click" X.509 Certificate, Private Key generation plus Browser import, and write to FOAF profile - Added Messaging Services - Added Relationships Ontology terms to ODS-AddressBook for qualifying relationships in Social Network - Added Biographical Ontology terms added to Profile Page UI - Added Support for MS Live Contacts API - Additional Ubiquity commands for relationship qualification in Social Network data spaces - Added Support for Portable contacts api - Fixed OpenID registration/auth in FOAF+SSL+OpenID implementation For more details, see the release notes: https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=161622&release_id=677418Other links:Virtuoso Open Source Edition: Home Page: http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/ Download Page: http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/VOSDownload OpenLink Data Spaces: Home Page: http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/OdsIndex SPARQL Usage Examples (re. SIOC, FOAF, AtomOWL, SKOS): http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/ODSSIOCRef OpenLink AJAX Toolkit (OAT): Project Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/oat Live Demonstration: http://demo.openlinksw.com/oatdemo Interactive SPARQL Demo: http://demo.openlinksw.com/isparql/ OpenLink Data Explorer (Firefox extension for RDF browsing): Home Page: http://ode.openlinksw.com/ Enhancements to v5.0.10 Database: Initial support for JDBC 4.x in the JDBC Driver Self-signed certificates and optional client-verification in HTTPS HTTP ACLs for rate-limiting A new `TOP(N, -1)' function for skipping N rows prior to resultsetconstruction New INI-file options LiteMode and DisableTcpSocket for thinner embeddable RDF or SQL RDBMS operation, RdfFreeTextRulesSize and IndexTreeMaps for better memory control Fixes for a deadlock handler bug and various 64-bit issues and compiler warnings Performance optimizations in the core database engine RDF Data Management & Data Access: New Meta Cartridges for UMBEL, Calais, Zemanta, Hoovers and the New York Times New Sponger cartridges for AB Meta, Last.FM, Twitter, Meetup.com, LibraryThing, SalesForce.com, RadioPop, Rhapsody Added support for FOAF+SSL New (X)HTML browser page for RDF Linked Data SPASQL ExtendedString and RdfBox types in .NET new CURIE-generation functions Amazon S3 DET and WebDAV mounting improved Turtle output presentation Various SPARQL and SPARUL updates and extensions and fixes Automated generating OWL from DB schema * Fixed memory leaks OpenLink Data Spaces Application-suite: New OAuth support Support for foaf+ssl self-signed certificates written to in FOAF-based member profiles Support for Amazon S3 folders in ODS-Briefcase New contact fields in ODS-AddressBook Ubiquity commands for interacting with all Data Spaces programmatically For more details, see the release notes: https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=161622&release_id=660861Other links:Virtuoso Open Source Edition: Home Page: http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/ Download Page: http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/VOSDownload OpenLink Data Spaces: Home Page: http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/OdsIndex SPARQL Usage Examples (re. SIOC, FOAF, AtomOWL, SKOS): http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/ODSSIOCRef OpenLink AJAX Toolkit (OAT): Project Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/oat Live Demonstration: http://demo.openlinksw.com/oatdemo Interactive SPARQL Demo: http://demo.openlinksw.com/isparql/ OpenLink Data Explorer (Firefox extension for RDF browsing): Home Page: http://ode.openlinksw.com/ Enhancements to v5.0.9 This version includes significant performance optimizations to the SQL Engine, SPARQL+RDF Engine, ODBC and JDBC drivers.New features include: An Excel mime-type output option in the SPARQL endpoint Enhanced triple options for bif:contains plus new options for transitivity New RDF-izer Cartridges for the Sponger RDF Middleware Layer Incorporation of UMBEL lookups and Named Entity Extraction into RDF-izer Cartridges Support for very large HTTP client requests A sparql-auth endpoint with digest authentication for using SPARUL via SPARQL Protocol New commands for the Ubiquity Firefox plugin There are also minor bug-fixes: memory leaks SQL query syntax handling SPARQL 'select distinct' XHTML and javascript validation and other UI issues in the ODS application suite For more details, see the release notes: https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=626647&group_id=161622Other links:Virtuoso Open Source Edition: Home Page: http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/ Download Page: http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/VOSDownload OpenLink Data Spaces: Home Page: http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/OdsIndex SPARQL Usage Examples (re. SIOC, FOAF, AtomOWL, SKOS): http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/ODSSIOCRef OpenLink AJAX Toolkit (OAT): Project Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/oat Live Demonstration: http://demo.openlinksw.com/oatdemo Interactive SPARQL Demo: http://demo.openlinksw.com/isparql/ OpenLink Data Explorer (Firefox extension for RDF browsing): Home Page: http://ode.openlinksw.com/ Enhancements to v5.0.8 SQL compiler is now re-entrant Self-Join optimizations exposed at JDBC Driver level (as was already the case with ODBC) SPARQL engine and SPARQL-BI extension optimizations have been merged TriG serialization format for RDF is now supported alongside RDFa, N3, Turtle, and RDF/XML Additional Sponger Cartridges for Digg, FriendFeed, and CrunchBase Improved graph quality and fidelity from existing Cartridges (especially Freebase, eBay, Amazon, Google, Yahoo, and many others) Improved handling of and bug fixes relating to the `OPTIONAL' SPARQL keyword Self-Dereferencing fixes (e.g., Sponger was not properly de-referencing its own Proxy URIs) On the ODS front, the following have been addressed: More flexible Mapping service model based on new OAT-based Mapping Control (which also includes a "province" locator) Improved SyncML integration with Briefcase folders Gem URL fixes for Atom, RSS, and RDF feeds Enhancements to v5.0.7 New: fully operational Native Graph Model Storage Providers for the Jena & Sesame Frameworks. Licensing change: the Jena and Sesame providers have been added to the "Client Protocol Driver exemptions" paragraph in the VOS License: http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/dataspace/dav/wiki/Main/VOSLicenseImprovements: Better support for alternate RDF indexing schemes Parallelization of RDF sponger operations across multiple RDF data-sources concurrently New Sponger Cartridges and enhancements to the existing Cartridge collection Inference engine optimizations for subclass and subproperty that efficiently handle taxonomies numbering tens of thousands of classes. OWL equivalentClass and equivalentProperty inference support. Dynamic handling of host component of IRIs; host component is now flexible enough to painlessly handle multiple homing of domains and host name component changes; no duplicate host name data storage required via [URIQA] section of INI SPARQL optimizations to improve LIMIT and OFFSET handling JDBC driver has new connect options, smaller memory footprint and optimized batch support ODS applications now support SyncML Documentation Additions: How to read query plans and how to use the key performance meters How to diagnose SPARQL queries and how to decide what indexing scheme is right for each RDF use case How to debug RDF views Better Documentation on SPARQL extensions and options An updated RDF View example based on the Northwind demonstration database that reflects underlying enhancements Bug Fixes: Generally improved safety of built-in functions, better argument checking. Verified UTF8 internationl character support in all RDF use cases, SQL client/SPARQL protocol/all data formats. Generally improved safety of built-in functions, better argument checking. Verified UTF8 internationl character support in all RDF use cases, SQL client/SPARQL protocol/all data formats.