[ANNOUNCE] Apache Jena 3.0.1 released

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

Apache Jena is an open source Java-based framework for building Semantic 
Web and Linked Data applications.  It supports RDF 1.1 and SPARQL 1.1, 
and includes an RDF SPARQL data publishing server, Apache Jena Fuseki.

The Apache Jena developer community is pleased to announce the release 
of Apache Jena 3.0.1 together with Fuseki 2.3.1. This release of Jena 
includes two new features as release candidates; they will be final in 
Jena 3.1.0.

== Key Features of the Release

* In-memory transactional dataset (RC)
   contributed by Adam Soroka
   with thanks to the University of Virginia Library for
     providing the time for Adam to work on this.

http://jena.apache.org/documentation/rdf/datasets.html

This provides full isolation ACID transactions so multi-threaded
applications can use the transaction paradigm for working with in-memory
data.

* SPARQL extension for CONSTRUCT Quads (RC)
   contributed by Qihong Lin
   with thanks to the Google Summer of Code scheme
     for sponsoring Qihong on this project.

http://jena.staging.apache.org/documentation/query/construct-quad.html

This extension adds the possibility for GRAPH in the CONSTRUCT template
to build a dataset, instead of a model. Fuseki2 supports this feature.

* Configurable lucene analyzers
   Osma Suominen

http://jena.apache.org/documentation/query/text-query.html#configuring-an-analyzer

* Improved start-up and configuration to wire the jars together
(and other code can join in)

* General maintenance
Thanks to everyone who created JIRA reporting issues.

== Obtaining Apache Jena 3.0.1

If migrating from Jena 2.x.x, please see
http://jena.staging.apache.org/documentation/migrate_jena2_jena3.html

* 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>3.0.1</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 drop into the dev@ list.

	The Apache Jena development community