The Apache Jena development community is pleased to
announce the release of Apache Jena 5.6.0.
All issues for this release:
https://s.apache.org/jena-5.6.0-issues
== Preparation for Jena 6.0.0
In preparation for Jena 6.0.0, the 5.6.0 release has code deprecations indicating methods, classes and modules that are planned for removal.
For Jena 6:
* Minimum Java version: Java 21
* Lucene update to 10.* (this requires Java21+)
* Retire jena-permissions
* Retire the Fuseki WAR file, jena-fuseki-webapp, jena-fuseki-war
* Code deprecation removal
* Deprecation of TDB1 but not for removal
* Remove Graph Capabilities and Graph.dependsOn
* No RDF/XML in jena-core/main
* Remove ARQ initial bindings
* Switching to org.apache.jena.ontapi (artifact jena-ontapi)
from the original org.apache.jena.ontology (part of jena-core)
* Switch to jena-iri3986 as the IRI parser; retire jena-iri
== Other items in Jena 5.6.0
* Use async HTTP; abortable remote query requests
* Update to Titanium json-ld v1.7.0
* Jena testing switches to Junit6.
== Contributions to Jena 5.6.0:
@shawnsmith:
* Fix for resolved URIs in jena-iri3986
https://github.com/apache/jena/issues/3465
Aklakan:
* GH-3464: ASync HTTP
https://github.com/apache/jena/pull/3464
Switch Jena's HTTP request processing (HttpLib) to using
HttpClient.async.
* GH-3437: Initialize fields of Cmds.java before JenaSystem.init()
* Allow transform from NodeValue to Var.
* GH-2048: Remove left-over dependencies to expiring-map and rdf-tables.
* Use kryo-shaded instead of kryo in order to avoid conflicts with asm.
* Support CONSTRUCT_JSON query type in RDFLinkHTTP.
* Allow Node_Ext to be wrapped as NodeValueNode without further checks.
* Revert fontawesome
sszuev
* GH-3322: [jena-ontapi] add assemblers
@arne-bdt
* GH-3323 COALESCE checks variable bindings
== Obtaining Apache Jena 5.6.0
* Via repo1.maven.org
The main jars and their dependencies can used with:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.jena</groupId>
<artifactId>apache-jena-libs</artifactId>
<type>pom</type>
<version>5.6.0</version>
</dependency>
Full details of all maven artifacts are described at:
http://jena.apache.org/download/maven.html
* As binary downloads
Apache Jena libraries are available as a binary distribution of
libraries. For details of a global mirror copy of Jena binaries please see:
https://jena.apache.org/download/
* Source code for the release
The signed source code of this release is available at:
https://downloads.apache.org/jena/source/
and the signed source code for all Apache Jena releases is
available at: https://archive.apache.org/dist/jena/
== Contributing
If you would like to help out, a good place to look is the list of
unresolved github issues:
https://github.com/apache/jena/issues
or review pull requests at
https://github.com/apache/jena/pulls
or drop into the dev@ list.
We use github pull requests and other ways for accepting code:
https://github.com/apache/jena/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
