[ANNOUNCE] Apache Jena 4.2.0 has been released

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

Apache Jena is a framework for developing Semantic Web and Linked Data
applications on the Java JVM. It provides implementation of W3C 
standards for RDF, SPARQL and SHACL, and has comprehensive APIs and 
tooling around those standards.

The Apache Jena development community is pleased to
announce the release of Apache Jena 4.2.0


In this release:

* Support for ShEx for RDF validation
   https://jena.apache.org/documentation/shex/

* Support for reading JSON-LD 1.1
   https://jena.apache.org/documentation/io/json-ld-11.html

   Jena uses the Titanium system for JSON-LD 1.1 support.
   https://github.com/filip26/titanium-json-ld

* SHACL: Provide SPARQL targets
   https://jena.apache.org/documentation/shacl

With contributions from Claus Sadler, Erich Bremer and Jan Martin Keil

33 tickets this release:
https://s.apache.org/jena-4.2.0-jira

== Obtaining Apache Jena 4.2.0

To download Apache Jena

   https://jena.apache.org/download/

In addition, binaries are available from repo1.maven.org.

== Contributing

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

     https://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