I'd like to do a release to pick up the latest state of RDF 1.2.
The RDF & SPARQL WG has made RDF Concepts and RDF Semantics "Candidate
Recommendations".
For any RDF 1.1 data using the 6.1.0 version of Jena would be "no
change" from 6.0.0. All RDF 1.1 usage remains exactly as it was.
Recent work in Jena has added RDF 1.2 support to RDF/XML RRX parsers and
the RDF/XML writer and supporting canonical N-Quads/N-Triples.
The working group has not finished and there will small changes; for
example, strict compliance and error conditions in RDF/XML aren't
settled yet.
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Apache Jena 6.0.0 was released on 2026-01-27
Issues closed:
https://s.apache.org/jena-6.1.0-issues
PRs closed:
https://github.com/apache/jena/pulls?q=is%3Apr+closed%3A2026-01-28..2030-01-01+-author%3Aapp%2Fdependabot+
== Of note:
Support for canonicalized N-Triples and N-Quads
https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf12-n-triples/#canonical-ntriples
via new RDFFormats
RDFFormat.NTRIPLES_C14N
RDFFormat.NQUADS_C14N
== Status of RDF 1.2 support
Support for RDF 1.2 in JSON-LD - there is a JSON-LD working group now
operating which includes support for RDF 1.2 features in its charter.
Protocol "&version=" and controlling the printing of VERSION (a new
Turtle directive) are not done. There are areas the WG has not finalized
about how to handle the version migration.
Pretty printing in Turtle isn't done. Output is correct - it is the
right triples - but it is not pretty.
== Contributions to Jena 6.1.0
@Aklakan
@pjfenning
Jena committers
Andy
