[ANN] Apache Jena 3.7.0

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

Apache Jena is a framework for developing Semantic Web and Linked Data
applications in Java. It provides implementation of W3C standards for
RDF and SPARQL.

The Apache Jena development community is pleased to announce the release 
of Apache Jena 3.7.0!

== Key features of the release

** Allow SPARQL custom functions to be written in JavaScript

http://jena.apache.org/documentation/query/javascript-functions.html

** Improvements in transactions

* The fully transactional storage (TDB, TIM, TDB2) now support 
transaction promotion from "read" to "write", reducing the need for 
write transactions when they may not be needed.

* Transactions now passed down for nested models.

Transaction are now passed through to the transactional storage in 
complex setups of models built from other models, for example, inference 
models assembly from base models in a database.


More details of this release:

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3d750019f0aaf1152592a16cae0e55fe9b9046c6bba10d8c3b999efb@%3Cusers.jena.apache.org%3E

== Obtaining Apache Jena 3.7.0

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/

* 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>3.7.0</version>
      </dependency>

Questions, and comments to users@jena.apache.org.

      The Apache Jena development community