Rasqal RDF Query Library - News 2006-04-30 Rasqal Version 0.9.12 Released Added JSON output based on the Serializing SPARQL Query Results in JSON draft Added query writer so you can use rasqal to turn RDQL into SPARQL Updated to SPARQL Query Language for RDF W3C Candidate Rec, 6 April 2006 now accepting all SPARQL syntax Requires raptor 1.4.9 or newer. Many internal code re-organisations See the 0.9.12 Release Notes for the full details of the changes. 2006-01-15 Rasqal Version 0.9.11 Released Updated to SPARQL Query Language for RDF W3C Working Draft, 23 November 2005 making several additions and changes to the syntax and functionality. Using ordering, distinct and limit with query results now works Created an enhanced API reference manual with gtk-doc Requires Raptor 1.4.8 Many updates to the literal and expression handling Major internal source code re-organisation Many other changes, fixes and improvements. See the 0.9.11 Release Notes for the full details of the changes. 2005-06-09 Rasqal Version 0.9.10 Released The query engine now supports sorting query results implementing SPARQL ORDER BY (NOTE: duplicate query results are not yet removed) SPARQL query language support updated for some recent changes See the 0.9.10 Release Notes for the full details of the changes. 2005-05-19 Rasqal Version 0.9.9 Released Updated to SPARQL Query Language for RDF, W3C Working Draft, 19 April 2005 making widespread changes the syntax. Query API extensively added to access more query structure Query engine updated including query results limit and offsets Updated to the revised SPARQL Query Results XML Format (not yet published) Many other bug fixes and improvements See the 0.9.9 Release Notes for the full details of the changes. 2005-04-10 Rasqal Version 0.9.8 Released Updated to SPARQL Query Language for RDF W3C Working Draft of 17 February 2005 Added casting to the engine and in SPARQL Restructured query engine to be based on a tree of graph patterns Constraints now work per-graph pattern Added a Data Graph API Query engine uses and binds graph names in queries (SPARQL LOAD, FROM and GRAPH) Expanded the Graph Pattern API See the 0.9.8 Release Notes for the full details of the changes. 2005-02-27 Rasqal Version 0.9.7 Released Fix a resource cleanup problem when query results were not fully read Fixed some crashes in expression evaluation with invalid types Added a graph pattern API to provide full access to the query structures Added query methods to return just bound or all variables Some updates for syntax changes of SPARQL Query Language for RDF W3C Working Draft of 17 February 2005 Portability fixes for win32 (Dave Viner) See the 0.9.7 Release Notes for the full details of the changes. 2005-02-06 Rasqal Version 0.9.6 Released Added support and API calls for new query result forms graph and boolean Added SPARQL CONSTRUCT, ASK result forms Added 7 new SPARQL built-in functions Allow UTF-8 and Unicode in prefixes and QNames in queries Several other changes and bug fixes. See the 0.9.6 Release Notes for the full details of the changes. 2005-01-16 Rasqal Version 0.9.5 Released Query engine refactored to execute over graph patterns Added support for SPARQL optionals Added formatting of query results according to the SPARQL Variable Binding Results XML Format, W3C Working Draft, 21 December 2004 Updated SPARQL to handle syntax changes Many other improvements and fixes See the 0.9.5 Release Notes for the full details of the changes. 2004-10-29 Rasqal Version 0.9.4 Released Fixed several crashes during query execution Fixed some memory leaks when a query failed Pass on internal raptor errors to rasqal users. See the 0.9.4 Release Notes for the full details of the changes. 2004-10-25 Rasqal Version 0.9.3 Released License changed to LGPL 2.1/Apache 2 Added initial support for the W3C SPARQL Query Language for RDF, 2004-10-12 working draft Queries can now be executed multiple times Portability fixes for building on win32 (Chris Pointon) Various roqet utility improvements See the 0.9.3 Release Notes for the full details of the changes. 2004-08-03 Rasqal Version 0.9.2 Released Fix casts for C++ Add win32 skeleton header file Fix a memory leak when using redland inside rasqal See the 0.9.2 Release Notes for the full details of the changes. 2004-06-13 Rasqal Version 0.9.1 Released Added a query results class separate from the query class and moved all the results methods to the new class. Made portability fixes for the generated RDQL lexer files See the 0.9.1 Release Notes for the full details of the changes. 2004-05-15 Rasqal Version 0.9.0 Released First public release. 2003-08-12 Rasqal Version 0.1.0 Released Initial web site created. Nothing actually released. _________________________________________________________________ Copyright (C) 2003-2006 Dave Beckett Copyright (C) 2003-2005 University of Bristol |