How are we looking for Jena 3.7.0?
I can RM. Don't let me stop anyone else but changes in Fuseki for
custom services will help me so this is $job time.
I suggest we email users@ to say we are hoping to release in the coming
weeks (no specific date), and say "please test (=> "this is your last
chance this cycle") and also send the Java9 message.
I have web site documentation updates for Txn and for RDFConnection to do.
Andy
42 JIRA resolved this release:
https://s.apache.org/jena-3.7.0-jira
In-progress:
* JENA-1501, #375 : systemd init file. (ready to go)
Others?
Status?:
* PR#368 "Return Model from PrefixMapping methods" JENA-1495
* JENA-1499 : PR done, JIRA open - is there work still in progress?
* PR#330 : Obfuscation Support
Lib upgrades: none.
** No jena-maven-tools (broken by Apache v19)
Material to go toward the ANN (this is notes, not the text)
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** Java9: Running on a Java9 platform is supported - language
requirement remain Java8. More below.
JENA-1461 - Allow ARQ custom functions to be written in JavaScript
http://jena.apache.org/documentation/query/javascript-functions.html
JENA-1458, JENA-1483 - Transaction Promotion
http://jena.staging.apache.org/documentation/txn/
The fully transactional storage (TDB, TIM,TDB2) now support transaction
promotion from "read" to "write", reducing the need for write
transactions when they may not be needed.
JENA-1435 - Provide extensibility of Fuseki with new services
JENA-1453 - Lucene indexes using a graph field are smaller
This release includes updates to the Jena Lucene integration that
reduces the size of the documents indexed by Lucene and reduces the size
of the resulting indexes. Re-indexing is not necessary as the changes
are compatible with existing indexes. Additionally, there is an optional
output argument for text:query that allows to retrieve the graph that
contains a result triple. See the updated
http://jena.apache.org/documentation/query/text-query.html
JENA-1391: Add methods for ModelCollectors to API in ModelUtils
JENA-1492
Transactions now passed down for nested models.
JENA-1490
Working with Blank Nodes with Fuseki
JENA-1482 Robustness checks for (mis)use of TDB
"Add testing when creating Bindings to catch null values earlier. "
== API
JENA-1389
Return `this` rather than `void` from Dataset
JENA-1495
PR#368 "Return Model from PrefixMapping methods"
** Java9
Java8 is the current LTS version of Java and receives security updates.
The next LTS is Java11. [Sched]
[Sched] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html
There are different cases for running with Java9:
[1] Run on a Java9 JVM
[2] Build using Java9 JDK, output Java8 classfiles.
[3] Java9 required - language features and runtime library
[4] Java9 modules
[1] at Jena 3.7.0, running with a Java9 platform (except as noted below)
is supported.
[2] at Jena 3.7.0, running maven using Java9 to produce Java8 bytecode
is supported (expect as noted). We now run a Jenkins job daily to check
this for the main jars.
[3] The project has no current plans to require a Java9 language
runtime. The language requirement is still Java8.
[4] Jena jars can work as automatic modules but Jena itself does not
provide a "modules" version. Proper migration needs all the dependencies
to be modules, and also has implications on the upstream. Contribution
and discussions are welcome!
For discussion and background see
[A] http://blog.joda.org/2017/05/java-se-9-jpms-automatic-modules.html
[B] http://blog.joda.org/2017/04/java-se-9-jpms-module-naming.html
And note: Java 9 is obsolete March 2018, as soon as java10 comes out.
http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/10/#Schedule
Notes:
jena-elephas depends on Hadoop that depends on jdk.tools that is not
available in Java9.
