[ANN] Apache Jena 3.1.1 released with Fuseki 2.4.1

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

We are pleased to announce the release of Apache Jena 3.1.1 together
with Fuseki 2.4.1.


In this release:

* Improved JSON-LD output
      JENA-1208 - Fran�ois-Paul Servant
http://jena.apache.org/documentation/io/rdf-output.html#json-ld

* Completed F&O XPath3 functions
      JENA-508 - Alessandro Seganti

* ComplexPhraseQueryParser
      JENA-1180 - Andrew Dolby

* Additional vocabularies (DCAT, VoID, ROV, ORG)
      JENA-1206 - Bart Hanssens

* Improvement to the Fuseki service script for RHEL/Centos 6.
      JENA-1219 - Dan Pritts

* ORDER BY now cancelable.

* Txn : a highlevel API for working with transactions
   http://jena.apache.org/documentation/txn/txn.html

* Embedded Fuseki
   http://jena.apache.org/documentation/fuseki2/fuseki-embedded.html

* Property path speed ups (JENA-1195)

* Upgrade to using the Apache HttpClient v4.3 API
      => auth changes cause API changes.

* General maintenance
   67 tickets

* Dependency changes:

Updates:
       com.github.jsonld-java:jsonld-java      0.7.0 -> 0.8.3

       org.apache.httpcomponents:httpClient    4.2.6 -> 4.5.2
       org.apache.httpcomponents:httpCache     4.2.6 -> 4.5.2
       org.apache.httpcomponents:httpCore      4.2.5 -> 4.4.4

       com.jayway.awaitility:awaitility        1.6.4 -> 1.7.0
       com.spatial4j:spatial4j                 0.4.1 -> 0.5
       org.slf4j:*                             1.7.20 -> 1.7.21
       commons-codec:commons-codec             1.9 -> 1.10
       org.apache.commons:commons-collections4 4.0 -> 4.1
       org.apache.commons:commons-csv          1.0 -> 1.3
       org.apache.commons:commons-lang3        3.3.2 -> 3.4
       org.apache.thrift:libthrift             0.9.2 -> 0.9.3
       org.apache.mrunit:mrunit                1.0.0 -> 1.1.0
       com.github.rvesse:airline               2.1.0 -> 2.1.1


== Obtaining Apache Jena 3.1.1

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>3.1.1</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.

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

     The Apache Jena development community