OpenLink Virtuoso - Open Source Edition - v6.1.5

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From: Tim Haynes <tha...@openlinksw.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:17 PM
Subject: Announcing OpenLink Virtuoso, Open Source Edition, v6.1.5
To: publi...@w3.org


Hi,

OpenLink Software is pleased to announce the official release of
Virtuoso Open-Source Edition, Version 6.1.5:

New product features as of March 15, 2012, V6.1.5, include:

 * Database engine
   - Added support for SPARQL 1.1 WITH, USING, NAMED
   - Added support for SPARQL 1.1 Update
   - Added support for SPARQL 1.1 Functions
   - Added support for SPARQL Macro Library syntax
   - Added support for SPARQL DESCRIBE modalities via pragma options "OBJCBD" (object-slot-based concise bound description) and "SCBD" (symmetrical concise bound description)
   - Added support for SPARQL DESCRIBE/CONSTRUCT to return 3 column
     resultset when using SPASQL (SPARQL inside SQL) via ODBC/JDBC/.NET by default mode ( _JAVA_ or _UDBC_ for exceptions)
   - Added support for wide strings in all SPARQL serializers
   - Added common infrastructure for RDF-specific XML parsers
   - Added new RDF/XML serializer (faster + pretty printing)
   - Added TRIG formatter
   - Added support for R2RML for generating Linked Data Views over ODBC/JDBC accessible data sources and/or native Virtuoso RDBMS data
   - Added support for HTML+Microdata
   - Added human-readable HTML output for DESCRIBE (list and table) to SPARQL endpoint
   - Added support for SELECT scalar_expression subqueries without FROM
     clause to avoid extra lock on fake subqueries
   - Added DBpedia vad package
   - Added support for scoping ACL to a virtual folders
   - Added new Visual Studio 11 project files for both 32bit and 64bit builds
   - Fixed RDF/XML parser that passes W3C tests dated 2003-Nov.
   - Fixed JSON-LD syntax to match recent draft of the spec
   - Fixed CONSTRUCT with constant string objects with language
   - Fixed output of bnodes in RDF/XML format
   - Fixed support for sparql load <file:///....> i.e. file: scheme URI with absolute path
     from system root
   - Fixed issue with uninitialized variables
   - Fixed use portable method for escaping symbol for gawk 3 and 4
   - Fixed issue with semaphores on Mac OS X 10.7
   - Fixed compiler warnings
   - Fixed memory leaks
   - Updated documentation

 * SPARQL and RDF
   - Added new cartridges for LinkedIn, Angel List,Klout, New York Times Article,
     Social Statistics and Stackoverflow etc.
   - Added new ontolgies for Angel List, X.509 Certificates, Crunchbase, DBpedia
     Spotlight, NYT, LinkedIn, OpenLink Basic, OpenLink Web etc.
   - Added support for extracting all meta and link head-element data from XHTML documents
   - Added post-processing script for generating owl:sameAs links for
     co-reference resolution
   - Added support for get:soft "add" pragma for progressive Linked Data graph construction via Sponger
   - Added support for paging over large collections to FB cartridge
   - Fixed Amazon cartridge now works with new Product Advertising API
   - Fixed handling of # in About header
   - Fixed visually qualifying opl:mentions property values with source cartridge identifier
   - Fixed social-profile-url property across social cartridges

 * ODS Applications
   - Added support for WebID 1.0 spec
   - Added support for CalDAV and CardDAV protocols
   - Added ACL editing for DETs
   - Added folder selecton for SyncML
   - Added option to import rdf data from file
   - Added rule for briefcase folder IRIs
   - Added VCARD Property Grouping
   - Added private graphs data
   - Added option to deactivate user

Other 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/>

Regards,

~Tim
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Tim Haynes
Product Development Consultant
OpenLink Software
<http://www.openlinksw.com/>
<http://twitter.com/openlink>