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Chapter 9  Release Notes

9.1  Galax 0.4.0 (August 2004)

Galax version 0.4 is a major release, and should be considered as an alpha release. Galax 0.4.0 implements the latest XQuery 1.0 working draft published in July 2004. It contains many improvements from the previous version, as well as new features.

Among the most noticeable improvements and new features: Galax now comes bundled with Jungle, a simple native XML store. It now supports XML Schema and "named typing". Finally, it contains some prototype support for Web services.

Have contributed to this release: Mary Fernandez, Vladimir Gapeyev, Nicola Onose, Philippe Michiels, Doug Petkanics, Christopher Re, Jerome Simeon, Avinash Vyas.

Main changes over the previous version are listed below.

Language changes: Environment changes: Architectural changes: New features: Portability:

9.2  Galax 0.3.5 (December 2003)

This is a bug-fix release:

9.3  Galax 0.3.1 (June 2003)

Language extensions: Command line: API: Parsing:

9.4  Galax 0.3.0 (January 2003)

Bugs Language: Numerous changes to align with Nov. 2002 and upcoming Feb 2003 WDs. Galax features: Data model: Function library:

9.5  Galax 0.2.0 (October 2002)

Parsing Data model: Language: Namespaces: XML Schema: Type system: Function library: Optimizer: Compilation: Tests: Tools and interfaces: Documentation:
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