Re: [Exist-open] Release of eXist 5.3.0

[Ari N. <ari...@gm...>]

Congrats and many thanks for all your hard work.

/Ari

On Sun, 27 Jun 2021, 18:35 Eduard Drenth, <ed...@fr...> wrote:

> Congratulations and thanks for all your hard work! Maven central follows I
> suppose?
>
> Regards, Eduard
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From*: Juri Leino <ju...@ex...
> <Juri%20Leino%20%3c...@ex...%3e>>
> *To*: exi...@li...
> *Subject*: (SPAM) [Exist-open] [ANN] Release of eXist 5.3.0
> *Date*: Sat, 26 Jun 2021 18:04:28 +0000
>
> We are very happy to announce that eXist-db 5.3.0 has been released.
>
> It's been quite a while since the last release. A lot has been happening
> behind the scenes, and we are happy to share the outcome with you. 5.3.0 is
> a minor release, and should be 100% API compatible with 5.0.0  as such.
>
> * TLDR: https://github.com/eXist-db/exist/releases/tag/eXist-5.3.0
>
> ## Highlights
>
> ### XQuery 3.1 compatibility
>
> - Improved handling of the XQuery type system - [#3363](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3363), [#3266](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3266), [#3728](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3728), [#3791](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3791)
> - Function types are now allowed as values in context item expressions
> - Duplicate functions will reliably throw a useful error
> - Root context is shielded from user defined functions
> - Several fixes for positional predicates
> - When errors are thrown in XQuery most of them will now have useful
> location information
> - Fixed parser issues to allow empty function body, and allow `||` in
> attribute and element content
> - Allow other seed types in fn:random-number-generator (like dates) -
> [#3072](https://github.com/eXist-db/exist/pull/3072)
> - Fixed the cardinality of fn:random-number-generator#1 - [#3249](
> https://github.com/eXist-db/exist/pull/3249)
> - Improved `fn:format-number` - [#3348](
> https://github.com/eXist-db/exist/pull/3348)
> - Made `fn:collection` spec compliant - [#3349](
> https://github.com/eXist-db/exist/pull/3349)
> - Allow sequences for batch deletions in `map:remove` and `array:remove` -
> [#3328](https://github.com/eXist-db/exist/pull/3228), [#3692](
> https://github.com/eXist-db/exist/pull/3692)
>
> ### New functions added
>
> - `array:sort` - [#3596](https://github.com/eXist-db/exist/pull/3596)
> - `fn:document-uri#0` - [#3644](
> https://github.com/eXist-db/exist/pull/3644)
> - `fn:trace#1` - [#3597](https://github.com/eXist-db/exist/pull/3597)
> - `fn:xml-to-json` - [#3141](https://github.com/eXist-db/exist/pull/3141)
>
> ### Other important additions
>
> - Module handling and caching was improved significantly
> - Both `controller.xq` and `controller.xql` are now recognized in apps
> that use eXist's URL Rewriting facility, to conform with the community
> convention of `.xq` for main modules and `.xqm` for library modules.
> - The implementation of maps was changed to gain performance
> - Allow Bearer tokens and other schemes than "Basic" in Authentication
> header
> - Allow HTTP verb PATCH
> - Custom base64 handling code was replaced with apache.commons code and a
> new function `util:base64-encode-url-safe` was added
> - Enhanced `util:eval` to preserve the original error information
> - In Lucene, you can now use different analyzers for indexing and querying
>
> ### Bundled apps
>
> All bundled applications have their frontend dependencies updated.
>
> - The index view in **monex** now lists new fields and facets - [#124](
> https://github.com/eXist-db/monex/pull/124).
> - The **shared resources** and **markdown** packages are no longer bundled
> with eXist-db. If your application depends on those you can still declare
> dependencies on them in your package metadata and download them from the
> [package repository](
> https://exist-db.org/exist/apps/public-repo/index.html).
>
> ### IMPORTANT NOTE
>
> The default eXist-db configuration settings are **not production ready**.
> Make sure to consult our [article on best practices ](
> https://exist-db.org/exist/apps/doc/production_good_practice.xml) before
> making your eXist-db instance publicly available.
>
> The new [existdb-config](https://github.com/eXistSolutions/existdb-config)
> project implements these "best practices" and can easily be used to harden
> your eXist-db(s) from version 5.1.1 till 5.3.0.
>
> ### Licensing
>
> A lot of effort was poured into getting eXist-db's source code licensed
> properly. It is now consistently LGPL 2.1, with exceptions where code from
> other projects is used with their permission.
>
> ## Features
>
> -  change packages bundled with eXist-db - [#3939](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3939)
> -  Backport of sql:close-connection from FusionDB - [#3890](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3890)
> -  Connection Pooling for SQL Module - [#3831](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3831)
> -  Replace Bintray URLs with GitHub Releases - [#3844](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3844)
> -  Add Code Coverage - [#3341](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3341
> )
> -  Import repo logging - [#3814](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3814)
> -  Look for controller.xq before controller.xql - [#3757](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3757)
> -  add support for HTTP PATCH - [#3745](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3745)
> -  Remove timeout on Compiled XQuery Pool - [#3721](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3721)
> -  Remove jQuery - [#3715](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3715)
> -  Add useful switches in the readme - [#3710](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3710)
> -  Broker pool service api - [#3705](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3705)
> -  Improve backup-ui dialog flow - [#3678](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3678)
> -  wrap file stream writes into BufferedOutputStreams - [#3687](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3687)
> -  Make servlets pluggable - [#3671](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3671)
> -  Add sonarcloud - [#3654](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3654)
> -  Implement fn:document-uri#0 - [#3644](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3644)
> -  Feature/add missing fn:trace - [#3597](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3597)
> -  Add a parameter to util:eval to preserve the original error message -
> [#3588](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3588)
> -  Enable conf.xml option document/@use-path-locks - [#3603](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3603)
> -  Implement array:sort - [#3596](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3596)
> -  Add details of where to find the XAR source-code - [#3593](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3593)
> -  fn:replace and fn:analyze-string are now implemented with Saxon -
> [#3530](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3530)
> -  add util:base64-encode-url-safe - [#3544](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3544)
> -  Add a caller attribute to the output of system:get-running-xqueries#0 -
> [#3527](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3527)
> -  support match highlighting on ft:field hits - [#3423](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3423)
> -  Offer further build profiles - [#3386](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3386)
> -  Update collection.xconf.xsd for eXist 5 - [#3379](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3379)
> -  Improve XQuery test naming - [#3368](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3368)
> -  Add memory and nr of processors information to startup log. - [#3335](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3335)
> -  Group managers are loaded from security database at startup - [#3332](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3332)
> -  Allow disabling building of the IzPack installer - [#3326](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3326)
> -  A more performant implementation of immutable maps - [#1520](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/1520)
> -  Make builds runtime compatible with Java 8 when built on JDK9+ -
> [#3320](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3320)
> -  Switch to nonblocking free ids processing algorithms - [#3291](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3291)
> -  Make Quartz Scheduler properties easily configurable - [#3274](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3274)
> -  Multiple resources can have their permissions set in the JAC - [#3263](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3263)
> -  Include the path of any file that could not be restored in the log -
> [#3268](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3268)
> -  Switch README.md link for JDK from Oracle to AdoptOpenJDK - [#3260](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3260)
> -  distinct analyzers for indexing and querying with Lucene - [#3227](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3227)
> -  Implement fn:xml-to-json() - [#3141](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3141)
> -  Update IntelliJ config for 5.3.0-SNAPSHOT - [#3232](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3232)
> -  Pass args to release plugin - [#3223](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3223)
>
> ## Fixes
>
> - Further tests for Cache Module and a small NPE avoidance fix - [#3935](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3935)
> - include templating in installer and tests - [#3941](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3941)
> - add Java16 to build matrix and allow failures - [#3921](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3921)
> - Cleanup all module contexts - [#3897](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3897)
> - Fix arity in XQuery error when there are duplicate functions in a main
> module - [#3910](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3910)
> - Block creation of collection by guest - [#3899](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3899)
> - Very Small fixes - [#3908](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3908)
> - throw error in repo:get-resource if file does not exist - [#3896](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3896)
> - Further attempt to get Coveralls plugin working - [#3894](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3894)
> - Specify the COVERALLS_TOKEN in the correct way for CI - [#3891](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3891)
> - Fixes for SSL - [#3884](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3884)
> - Lazily created caches should be bounded - [#3877](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3877)
> - Block startup for Java 12-15 to protect from data corruption - [#3545](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3545)
> - Remove object retained by inner-class via back-reference - [#3878](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3878)
> - Avoid unauthorised creation of collections - [#3870](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3870)
> - Improve invoking logger using log4j2 and slf4j templating - [#3830](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3830)
> - Repair missing tmp dir TemporaryFileManager - [#3829](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3829)
> - test the feature in container - [#3823](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3823)
> - Eliminate SequencedLongHashMap custom code - [#3782](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3782)
> - repair appveyor build - [#3811](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3811)
> - reimplement fn:base-uri() - [#3813](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3813)
> - Fixes corrupted stream message with maven-surefire-plugin - [#3810](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3810)
> - Fix URL for build status page and badge - [#3808](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3808)
> - repair build CQL Parser Module - [#3807](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3807)
> - NPE on predicates with an empty sequence - [#3799](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3799)
> - Fix incomplete type error reporting - [#3791](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3791)
> - Tests for computed namespace constructor - [#3781](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3781)
> - Make CI more manageable - [#3766](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3766)
> - Speed up CI when Docker Images are built - [#3771](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3771)
> - fn:position() off-by-one after any predicate - [#3761](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3761)
> - Fix a regression in finding the roots of the type hierarchy - [#3774](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3774)
> - Fix storage of repo.xml during package installation - [#3773](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3773)
> - Fix typo in error message for system:get-running-jobs - [#3772](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3772)
> - Fix GitHub Actions for SonarCloud - [#3664](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3664)
> - GitHub CI Badge in README.md should be for the `develop` branch -
> [#3765](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3765)
> - Add Docker to CI and tweak CI settings - [#3760](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3760)
> - Further fixes to CI - [#3756](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3756)
> - Fix typo in CI config - [#3755](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3755)
> - Improve CI in GitHub Actions - [#3751](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3751)
> - Creates a build matrix on github actions - [#3743](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3743)
> - Group membership is not correct immediately after restoring a backup -
> [#3731](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3731)
> -  xs:anyType is the top of a Type hierarchy, don't look further - [#3728](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3728)
> - Fix NaN comparisons - [#3729](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3729)
> - Reinstate fix for output directory - [#3714](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3714)
> - Update conf.xml XSD to latest conf.xml changes; fix location - [#3703](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3703)
> - Proposed fix for #3624 NPE at RangeQueryRewriter.rewriteLocationStep -
> [#3625](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3625)
> - Use fixed user environment for tests - [#3669](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3669)
> - (Bugfix) misc XQTS reported issues - [#3693](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3693)
> - Prevent NPEs in math:* functions. Tested in XQTS suite - [#3691](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3691)
> - Array: extend remove() function to allow multiple deletes in one go.
> (XQTS) - [#3692](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3692)
> - Remove old (unfinished?) code - [#3686](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3686)
> - Fix for #3688 - [#3689](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3689)
> - basic authentication - [#3670](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3670)
> - Make import statements consistent in whole repo - [#3658](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3658)
> - Update README.md - [#3656](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3656)
> - add location info to element content errors - [#3550](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3550)
> - Make sure the correct context sequence is used with
> util:eval-with-context - [#3529](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3529)
> - Preserve original error message when using util:eval - [#3648](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3648)
> - Fix root node handling and implicit context in functions - [#3605](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3605)
> - Fix compilation issue with JAXB dependencies on JDK 11+ - [#3643](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3643)
> - Another round of codebase improvements - [#3631](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3631)
> - Fixing some resource management issues - [#3630](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3630)
> - code improvements - [#3580](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3580)
> - 0 byte sized binary resources can be included in ZiPfile - [#3566](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3566)
> - allow function types in context item - [#3496](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3496)
> - Small code improvements - [#3626](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3626)
> - Fix NPE and Deadlock when Path Locks are used for Documents - [#3622](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3622)
> - Remove code which duplicates Commons IO - [#3621](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3621)
> - Log a warning if a collection.xconf is binary - [#3613](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3613)
> - Avoid IllegalStateException in Http Session functions - [#3612](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3612)
> - Improve module code quality - [#3611](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3611)
> - Update CI to include Java15 - [#3609](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3609)
> - REST API should not always complain about aborted transactions - [#3604](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3604)
> - Fix various problems with importing modules - [#3585](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3585)
> - line and column numbers in unknown-atomic-type errors - [#3546](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3546)
> - Improve Module Source - [#3579](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3579)
> - Fix an NPE in XQuery Update Replace - [#3576](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3576)
> - Integration tests for SQL Module Connection Functions - [#3574](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3574)
> - more improvements - [#3571](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3571)
> - Allow Travis CI JDK14 job to fail - [#3572](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3572)
> - Fix QName comparison Namepool - [#3570](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3570)
> - Proposed fix for NPE with empty case expression - [#3567](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3567)
> - Refactor/some more improvements - [#3569](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3569)
> - Some generic code improvements - [#3568](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3568)
> - allow functions with empty body - [#3552](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3552)
> - added missing directoryScanner.scan(); to fix repo:install-from-db -
> [#3564](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3564)
> - Remove document metadata indirection - [#3535](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3535)
> - Simplify test setup - [#3537](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3537)
> - Update to Apache Commons Collections 4 - [#3538](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3538)
> - Collection must be persisted when renaming/moving - [#3534](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3534)
> - Consistent License Declarations - [#3305](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3305)
> - Fix an issue in the query history in the Java Admin Client - [#3528](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3528)
> - Fix EXPath XAR required eXist-db version calculation - [#3319](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3319)
> - Fix javadocs - [#3516](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3516)
> - Fix an issue with the context item as an argument to fn:string-length
> inside a predicate - [#3508](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3508)
> - Fixes to shutdown when running tests - [#3509](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3509)
> - fn:base-uri should not raise XPDY0002 when the context item is empty -
> [#3498](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3498)
> - concatenation dependend on mode - [#3493](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3493)
> - Small cleanup to fn:matches code - [#3492](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3492)
> - Catch exception and enrich exception with location information - [#3478](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3478)
> - Make sure the blob.dbx is present in the data backup - [#3480](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3480)
> - Small Code cleanup - [#3481](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3481
> )
> - Get location from predicate evaluation and add to exception - [#3469](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3469)
> - Command line scripts support SSL - [#3453](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3453)
> - Fix formatting of am/pm for 12 pm - [#3458](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3458)
> - add missing location from error messages - [#3452](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3452)
> - Fix link to book - [#3451](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3451)
> - Improve signing of release artifacts - [#3443](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3443)
> - Small fixes - [#3442](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3442)
> - Add java modules to list functions - [#3430](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3430)
> - Repair module prefixes - [#3428](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3428)
> - Make sure that dist-archives are built by default - [#3412](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3412)
> - Fix issues with types and comparisons - [#3363](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3363)
> - java exception on higher order functions - [#3364](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3364)
> - Add functioning invite link to eXist Cmty Slack - [#3399](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3399)
> - use v1 syntax - [#3397](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3397)
> - fix deployment syntax on travis - [#3396](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3396)
> - Fix Travis Deploy step - [#3385](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3385)
> - Small change to util:node-by-id to avoid unexpected NPE - [#3383](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3383)
> - Reduces JDK pipeline to the LTS and last released versions - [#3381](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3381)
> - Fix an NPE with Security Context in dynamically loaded modules - [#3377](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3377)
> - Use secure maven repos where possible - [#3374](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3374)
> - Switch to new OSGeo repo - [#3373](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3373)
> - Avoid IndexOutOfBounds when selecting combo box items in JAC - [#3353](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3353)
> - rename test to clarify goal - [#3369](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3369)
> - Small Travis config improvements - [#3359](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3359)
> - Prohibit duplicate function declarations - [#3354](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3354)
> - Context Item should not be atomized when used as argument for
> fn:string-length - [#3355](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3355)
> - Add OpenJDK 12 and 13 to Travis CI - [#3340](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3340)
> - fn:collection should only return XML documents - [#3349](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3349)
> - Fix bounds issues with group separators in fn:format-number - [#3348](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3348)
> - Remove system.out message for debugging - [#3351](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3351)
> - Fix util:get-resource-by-absolute-id - [#3350](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3350)
> - Fix an issue with positional predicates that have multiple values -
> [#3333](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3333)
> - Fix an issue with Java equality of DLN - [#3328](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3328)
> - Avoid an NPE when reconstructing nested stack traces - [#3327](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3327)
> - Fix casting integers as union type xs:numeric - [#3324](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3324)
> - Fix polluted context when dynamically compiling query - [#3325](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3325)
> - Fix renaming a Collection - [#3314](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3314)
> - Don't keep the splash screen in front of everything else - [#3315](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3315)
> - Fix the UTF8 decoding of Node Values - [#3317](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3317)
> - Add missing test names - [#3306](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3306)
> - Take the XQJ API dependency from Maven Central - [#3302](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3302)
> - Refactor system:export - [#3303](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3303)
> - Ensure Inspect Module functions throws errors appropriately - [#3297](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3297)
> - Update Jing and switch to official artifact - [#3298](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3298)
> - boolean-sequences.xql Test was in the wrong location - [#3292](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3292)
> - Docker HEALTHCHECK should use `guest` account not `admin` - [#3288](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3288)
> - Fix some issues with document-node type checks - [#3287](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3287)
> - Fix some small Windows Service issues - [#3283](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3283)
> - Fix restoring folder backups on Windows via XML:RPC - [#3282](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3282)
> - With fn:unparsed-text#1 non-dba users should only be restricted from
> filesystem - [#3285](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3285)
> - fn:concat requires an arity of at least two when making a function
> reference - [#3286](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3286)
> - fn:parse-xml-fragment should return a document-node() - [#3290](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3290)
> - Fix reporting of Restored Documents when restoring a backup - [#3271](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3271)
> - Resolve XSLT Modules from EXPath Packages - [#3258](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3258)
> - Document URI was incorrectly cached during a Collection Move - [#3269](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3269)
> - Fix type conversion of xs:positiveInteger and xs:negativeInteger types -
> [#3266](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3266)
> - Descriptor file should be read from $EXIST_HOME/etc - [#3267](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3267)
> - Correctly set the sticky bit when using a simple symbolic mode string -
> [#3270](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3270)
> - Make sure the Memtree in the query context is correctly used - [#3262](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3262)
> - Make sure the context is preserved when dynamically compiling a query -
> [#3265](https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3265)
> - Reinstate code for a historical Jetty bugfix - [#3261](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3261)
> - Fix the cardinality of fn:random-number-generator#1 - [#3249](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3249)
> - Fix an issue with jetty closing sockets - [#3248](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3248)
> - spec compliant random-number-generator - [#3072](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3072)
> - map:remove sequence of keys - [#3228](
> https://github.com/exist-db/exist/pull/3228)
>
>
> ## Dependencies
>
> - Bump Saxon-HE from 9.9.1-6 to 9.9.1-7
> - Bump ant.version from 1.10.7 to 1.10.10
> - Bump apache.httpcomponents.version from 4.5.11 to 4.5.13
> - Bump aspectj-maven-plugin from 1.12.1 to 1.12.6
> - Bump bcprov-jdk15on from 1.64 to 1.69
> - Bump bifurcan from 0.2.0-alpha1 to 0.2.0-alpha6
> - Bump caffeine from 2.8.1 to 2.9.1
> - Bump commons-codec from 1.14 to 1.15
> - Bump commons-compress from 1.18 to 1.20
> - Bump commons-configuration2 from 2.6 to 2.7
> - Bump commons-io from 2.6 to 2.10.0
> - Bump commons-lang3 from 3.9 to 3.12.0
> - Bump dependency-check-maven from 5.2.4 to 6.2.2
> - Bump docker-maven-plugin from 0.33.0 to 0.36.0
> - Bump download-maven-plugin from 1.5.0 to 1.6.3
> - Bump easymock from 4.1 to 4.3
> - Bump exec-maven-plugin from 1.6.0 to 3.0.0
> - Bump exquery.distribution.version from 0.1.35 to 0.2.0
> - Bump fastutil from 8.3.0 to 8.5.4
> - Bump fop from 2.4 to 2.6
> - Bump hsqldb from 2.5.0 to 2.6.0
> - Bump http-client-java from 1.2.2 to 1.4.1
> - Bump httpcore from 4.4.13 to 4.4.14
> - Bump jackson-core from 2.10.2 to 2.12.3
> - Bump jacoco-maven-plugin from 0.8.6 to 0.8.7
> - Bump jakarta.activation from 1.2.1 to 2.0.0
> - Bump jakarta.mail from 1.6.4 to 1.6.5
> - Bump jakarta.xml.bind-api from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1
> - Bump jansi from 1.18 to 2.3.3
> - Bump java-uuid-generator from 3.2.0 to 4.0.1
> - Bump jaxb-impl from 3.0.0-M5 to 3.0.1
> - Bump jcstress-core from 0.5 to 0.13
> - Bump jctools-core from 3.0.0 to 3.3.0
> - Bump jetty.version from 9.4.26.v20200117 to 9.4.42.v20210604
> - Bump jline from 3.13.3 to 3.20.0
> - Bump jmh.version from 1.22 to 1.32
> - Bump jts from 1.8 to 1.13
> - Bump junit from 4.13 to 4.13.2
> - Bump log4j.version from 2.13.0 to 2.14.1
> - Bump lz4-java from 1.7.1 to 1.8.0
> - Bump maven-assembly-plugin from 3.2.0 to 3.3.0
> - Bump maven-dependency-plugin from 3.1.1 to 3.1.2
> - Bump maven-javadoc-plugin from 3.1.1 to 3.3.0
> - Bump maven-project-info-reports-plugin from 3.0.0 to 3.1.2
> - Bump maven-resources-plugin from 3.1.0 to 3.2.0
> - Bump maven-shade-plugin from 3.2.1 to 3.2.4
> - Bump maven-site-plugin from 3.8.2 to 3.9.1
> - Bump maven-surefire-plugin from 3.0.0-M4 to 3.0.0-M5
> - Bump maven-surefire-report-plugin from 3.0.0-M4 to 3.0.0-M5
> - Bump pkg-java from 1.4.2 to 1.6.1
> - Bump rsyntaxtextarea from 3.0.8 to 3.1.3
> - Bump tika.version from 1.23 to 1.26
> - Bump tools-java from 0.3.0 to 0.7.0
> - Bump versions-maven-plugin from 2.7 to 2.8.1
> - Bump xmlgraphics-commons from 2.4 to 2.6
> - Bump xmlunit.version from 2.6.3 to 2.8.2
>
> ## Backwards Compatibility
>
> eXist-db 5.3.0 is binary compatible with previous eXist-db 5.x.x versions
> back to 5.0.0-RC6. Regardless, before upgrading to this version of
> eXist-db, it is strongly recommended to perform a full backup and restore.
> Users who are upgrading should always consult the Upgrading Guide
> https://exist-db.org/exist/apps/doc/upgrading.xml in the documentation.
> For
> details of backwards compatibility with versions of eXist-db prior to
> 5.0.0-RC6, please see the Backwards Compatibility details of 5.0.0-RC6
> http://www.exist-db.org/exist/apps/wiki/blogs/eXist/eXistdb500RC6.
>
> ## Downloading eXist-db 5.3.0
>
> - eXist-db v5.5.0 is available for download from Github
> https://github.com/eXist-db/exist/releases/tag/eXist-5.3.0.
> - Docker images are available from eXist-db's DockerHub
> https://hub.docker.com/r/existdb/existdb/tags/.
> - Maven artifacts are available from Maven Central
> https://search.maven.org/search?q=g:org.exist-db.
> - Mac users of the Homebrew http://brew.sh package repository need to
> wait a short moment but will then be able to acquire eXist 5.3.0 directly
> from there via. the `exist-db` cask.
>
>
> A big thanks to all contributors!
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