[ANN] Apache Jena 3.12.0 with GeoSPARQL support

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

The Apache Jena development community is pleased to announce the
release of Apache Jena 3.12.0.

This release includes an implementation of GeoSPARQL contributed
by Greg Albiston.

    http://jena.apache.org/documentation/geosparql/

== Other

Some maintenance JIRA items https://s.apache.org/jena-3.12.0-jira

== Upgrades to libraries

JENA-1711 : Upgrade Jackson dependency to 2.9.9 (CVE-2019-12086)

== Obtaining Apache Jena 3.12.0

* 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>3.12.0</version>
      </dependency>

and to get the GeoSPARQL module:

      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.jena</groupId>
        <artifactId>jena-geosparql</artifactId>
        <version>3.12.0</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