[ANN] Apache Jena 4.4.0

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

The Apache Jena development community is pleased to
announce the release of Apache Jena 4.4.0.

== New Fuseki UI

The main item in this release is the updated Fuseki UI thanks to work by 
Bruno.  The UI has been rewritten for improved maintenance and style. We 
look forward to evolving this new code base.

== Dependency Updates

   Apache log4j is at 2.17.1
   Apache Lucene: is updated to 8.10.1 -> 8.11.1
   Titanium JSON-LD updated 1.1.0 -> 1.2.0

as well as all other dependences being checked for updates.

== Community Contributions

Erich Bremer
Jan Martin Keil

== Fuseki war file

The war file for Fuseki is no longer in the apache-jena-fuseki zip 
download. Instead, it is available from the downloads page.

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

This halves the size of the zip/tar.gz for the standalone server.

The Fuseki war file does not work in Tomcat10 due to the javax->jakarta 
switchover. Apache Tomcat provide a converter:
https://tomcat.apache.org/download-migration.cgi

== Fuseki: HTML file upload support

Fuseki: serviceUpload (HTML file upload only service) is no longer added 
in a default configuration.  Existing configurations are unaffected.

This is not SPARQL GSP.

GSP (POST/PUT) endpoint accepts HTML file uploads as well as the usual 
direct POST/PUT with content-type.

== Improved bulk loader

This release includes the version of the TDB2 xloader for very large 
datasets.

It has been used to load 16.6B triples (WikiData all) into TDB2 and 
loading truthy (6B) on modest hardware. Thanks to Marco, Lorenz and 
Øyvind for running Wikidata load trails.

The loader now now has "--threads=" which been reported to give improved 
load times  (if the server has the hardware!).

== Assembler for GeoSPARQL

This makes it easier to use GeoPSARQL in a plain Fuseki.

https://jena.apache.org/documentation/geosparql/geosparql-assembler.html

== All tickets in the release

https://s.apache.org/jena-4.4.0-jira

== Obtaining Apache Jena 4.4.0

* 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>4.4.0</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