eXist full changelog

Bug fixes:
quot;stablequot; was treated as a reserved keyword and could not be used in xpath expressions or xml fragments.
Added -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 in vm.properties to fix rare encoding issues on some machines.
Allow quot;mathquot; namespace to be overwritten (it has the same status as the function namespace in XQuery 3).
Allow restxq access to Query parameters from any HTTP method (was previously limited to GET)
Applied password ant task patch #807.
Applied patches #819, #820 and #821: Race condition(s) and missing unlocks on failure in BrokerPool. FileSyncThread may access null endOfLog. On some error conditions Journal channel may be null which was not checked.
Avoid NPE in ft:get-field if document does not exist.
Disabled left mouse click on system tray icon in GNU/Linux which otherwise leads to display issues.
Fix for self axis in filter step.
Fixed quot;cannot convert xs:boolean('false') to a node setquot; issue in filter using OR with empty node set

· Faster structural index (complete redesign)
· XQuery 3.0 features (e.g. try-catch, switch, higher-order functions - more to come soon)
· Tightened security model with multiple realms (LDAP/AD/OpenID...)
· Access control lists
· Improvements to XQuery optimization: more automatic rewrites
· Hot deployment of apps into a db from the application repository
· Simplified creation, setup and distribution of self-contained XQuery apps
· XQuery IDE (eXide)
· Efficient indexing of binary resources (PDF and co)
· Less memory use when processing binary values (streaming)
· New REST API based on XQuery 3.0 Annotations (project quot;Sleepyquot;)