Sesame Files

Sesame 2.8.4
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Sesame 2.8.4 is a maintenance release addressing 19 issues. 

A highlight of this release is substantially improved support for concurrent
transactions in our memory and native stores, by means of an optimistic locking
scheme. See the upgrade notes at:

http://rdf4j.org/sesame/2.8/docs/articles/upgrade-notes.docbook?view#Concurrent_Transactions__as_of_2_8_4_

for additional details on this. 

See the Sesame JIRA release overview for a complete listing of all fixed
issues:

	https://openrdf.atlassian.net/projects/SES/versions/12401

Sesame 2.8.4 can be downloaded via our community website at 

	http://rdf4j.org/

The user documentation and API Javadoc can be also found here.

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

Changelog
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Release Notes - Sesame - Version 2.8.4

** Bug
    * [SES-1968] - SPARQL Results XML Parser Fails When an xmlns: Prefix is Used
    * [SES-1994] - Query Results Should Not Include Post Evaluation Changes From Local Transaction
    * [SES-2204] - RepositoryProvider is Inconsistent With Trailing Slash
    * [SES-2225] - Open iterations cause added statements to be invisible in SNAPSHOT_READ mode and above
    * [SES-2236] - HashJoinIteration throws exception on cartesian join
    * [SES-2242] - Sparql Repository cannot authenticate using basic authentication
    * [SES-2249] - LocalRepositoryManager#getRepositoryID Does Not Close RepositoryResult
    * [SES-2251] - PathIteration Does Not Close Created Iterations
    * [SES-2253] - SailWrapper Should Implement FederatedServiceResolver
    * [SES-2254] - LuceneSail doesn't correctly handle [search:property ?var]
    * [SES-2255] - SPARQL editor incorrectly marks line as invalid syntax
    * [SES-2258] - 'Insert DATA' fails if '.' is present after GRAPH {} expression
    * [SES-2262] - Maven warning of duplicate guava dependency declaration
    * [SES-2263] - Exception adding data stream to http repository


** Improvement
    * [SES-2188] - Collections used in query evaluation should use on-disk overflow to avoid OutOfMemoryError
    * [SES-2222] - Concurrent Transaction Support in Memory and Native Stores
    * [SES-2235] - Make EvaluationStrategy in Federation easier to change
    * [SES-2239] - SPARQLMinusIteration is slow
    * [SES-2244] - Native store update from 2.7 to 2.8 should log error instead of failing with exception