RDF4J 4.0.0

[abrokenjester]

RDF4J 4.0.0 is a major release of the Eclipse RDF4J framework. Some highlights:

• Update to Java 11 as the minimally-required version of Java
• An (experimental) new embedded triplestore: the LMDB store
• Improved support for working with RDF4J in Spring and Spring Boot applications (see documentation for details)
• Performance improvements in the SHACL engine
• Performance improvements in the Memory Sail
• Various speed and optimization improvements in the SPARQL query engine
• Various improvements in the SparqlBuilder
• SeRQL and SPIN are no longer supported
• Removal of several long-deprecated packages and interfaces

For more details, including instruction on how to upgrade, see the release notes.

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This discussion was created from the release RDF4J 4.0.0.

[kenwenzel]

@jeenbroekstra The referenced LMDB documentation is not the latest version. Could you upload the latest documentation?

[abrokenjester]

Thanks for the heads up. Looks like we forgot to merge your documentation PR before release. Merged to main now, it should automatically appear on the site in the next 20 minutes or so.