Sesame Files

Sesame 2.8.0-beta1
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Sesame 2.8.0-beta1 is the first beta release for Sesame 2.8. The main new
features in this release are:

  - Configurable transaction isolation levels in Repository and SAIL API
  - Full compatbility with the new RDF 1.1 Proposed Recommendation
    (see http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/)
  - Upgrade to Apache HttpComponent HttpClient 4 

See the OpenRDF JIRA Changelog for a complete listing of all fixed issues:

  https://openrdf.atlassian.net/browse/SES#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Achangelog-panel

NOTE: This is a beta release, intended to let users and third party developers
familiarize themselves with the new features and to solicit feedback. We do not
recommend upgrading your production environment to this release.


Sesame 2.8.0-beta1 can be downloaded here: 

  http://www.openrdf.org/download.jsp

The user documentation and API Javadoc can be also found at:

  http://openrdf.callimachus.net/ 

We would welcome any feedback you might have, you can use the Sesame Discussion
mailinglist or our JIRA issue tracker for this purpose. 

Changelog
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Release Notes - Sesame - Version 2.8.0-beta1

** New Feature
    * [SES-1888] - Pretty-print supported Turtle literals as native values
    * [SES-1901] - Configurable transaction isolation levels
    * [SES-1986] - MemoryStore and NativeStore Should Support SERIALIZABLE Isolation

** Improvement
    * [SES-1775] - Update to Apache HttpComponents HttpClient
    * [SES-1945] - TurtleWriter Should Use Abbreviated Forms
    * [SES-1982] - Include SNAPSHOT_READ in provided IsolationLevels enum
    * [SES-1984] - Add scan parameter to the logback configuration
    * [SES-1987] - REPEATABLE_READ Is Misleading and Should Be Dropped
    * [SES-1989] - Remove custom finalize methods to facilitate effective GC

** Sub-task
    * [SES-1064] - Support standard Unique URIs for RDF and SPARQL File Formats
    * [SES-1803] - Add Literals.isLanguageLiteral
    * [SES-1916] - RDF-1.1 : Assign RDF LangString as datatype for language literals
    * [SES-1917] - RDF-1.1 : Assign XmlSchema String as datatype for plain literals
    * [SES-1918] - RDF-1.1 : Support RDF HTML datatype

** Bug
    * [SES-1933] - QueryEvaluationUtil.compareLiterals returns true for two incompatible XSD typed literals with equals operator
    * [SES-1946] - SPARQL Results CSV and TSV Should Handle Edge Cases
    * [SES-1957] - Sesame Native SPARQL Update Should Not Be Bound By Available Memory
    * [SES-1977] - Fix isolation level null warnings in compliance test logs
    * [SES-1983] - MemoryStore and NativeStore Implement READ_UNCOMMITTED, but Claim READ_COMMITTED

** Task
    * [SES-1975] - Update Logback to 1.0.13