[ANNOUNCE] Apache Jena 4.7.0 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 implementations of W3C
standards for RDF, SPARQL and SHACL, and has comprehensive APIs and
tooling around those standards.

It includes the Fuseki SPARQL triple store.

The Apache Jena development community is pleased to
announce the release of Apache Jena 4.7.0.

Regards,
The Jena team.

==== In this release:

* LATERAL joins
     This is an experimental feature.
   Documentation:
     https://jena.apache.org/documentation/query/lateral-join.html

* RDF Patch
   Documentation:
     https://jena.apache.org/documentation/rdfpatch/

* Lucene upgrade  8.11.1 to 9.4.1 - @OyvindLGjesdal
     There are changes to the stopword setting in the default
     configuration of Lucene's StandardAnalyzer

* Path improvements - @SimonBin et al

All issues for this release:
https://s.apache.org/jena-4.7.0-issues

Contributors:
   OyvindL Gjesdal
   Simon Bin
   Alexandre Ardhuin
   Claus Stadler
   Brian Vvosburgh
   Eric Prud'hommeaux

More details:
https://lists.apache.org/thread/2flk0xyz1bf0xpfmk1jgz74cvdog40z9

== Obtaining Apache Jena 4.7.0

To download Apache Jena

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

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