[ANN] Apache Jena 3.16.0

[Andy Seaborne <an...@apache.org>]

The Apache Jena development community is pleased to
announce the release of Apache Jena 3.16.0.

In this release:

   Completed support for RDF* with implementation for TDB1 and TDB2.
     https://jena.apache.org/documentation/rdfstar/

   SHACL Compact Syntax reader
     https://jena.apache.org/documentation/shacl/

This release is soon after 3.15.0 to fix the problem with
the standalone Fuseki server.

== Contributions and notable JIRA

For a full list of tickets for this release, see:

https://s.apache.org/jena-3.16.0-jira

JENA-1932: Fix for jena-text-es
Pavel Mikhailovskii

JENA-1901
Provide default implementations for some of SecurityEvaluator's methods
Pavel Mikhailovskii

JENA-1904 : QueryExecution.sparqlService fix.
Daniel Arturo Casals Amat

Features:

JENA-1921 : SHACLC reader
JENA-1899 : RDF* for TDB1, TDB2

ALSO:

JENA-1924 : Invalid IRIs -- better checking for illegal IRI characters.
JENA-1918 : Performance improvements for paths
JENA-1913 : Fuseki: Support multiple "--file" arguments to load all the 
files into one database.

== Obtaining Apache Jena 3.16.0

* Via central.maven.org

The main jars and their dependencies can used with:

       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.jena</groupId>
         <artifactId>apache-jena-libs</artifactId>
         <type>pom</type>
         <version>3.16.0</version>
       </dependency>

Full details of all maven artifacts are described at:

         http://jena.apache.org/download/maven.html

* As binary downloads

Apache Jena libraries are available as a binary distribution of
libraries. For details of a global mirror copy of Jena binaries please see:

http://jena.apache.org/download/

* Source code for the release

The signed source code of this release is available at:

http://www.apache.org/dist/jena/source/

and the signed master source for all Apache Jena releases is available
at: http://archive.apache.org/dist/jena/

== Contributing

If you would like to help out, a good place to look is the list of
unresolved JIRA at:

http://s.apache.org/jena-jira-current

or review pull requests at

https://github.com/apache/jena/pulls

or drop into the dev@ list.

We use github pull requests and other ways for accepting code:
      https://github.com/apache/jena/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md