# Raptor RDF Parser Toolkit - News

## 2003-08-25 Version 0.9.12 Released

Fix some XML memory leaks in Exclusive XML Canonicalization.
Stop parsing RSS tag soup after a user abort
Improved N-Triples syntax checking.
Crash fixes for 64 bit Alpha/Sparc Linux/Solaris (varargs, size_t)
Fixed some other minor memory leaks with `rdf:datatype` and `rdf:ID` attributes.

## 2003-07-29 Version 0.9.11 Released

Completely handles the revised RDF/XML syntax (including post W3C Last Call changes)
Added Unicode Normal Form C (NFC) checking for literals (requires GNOME glib 2.0 at present)
Added Exclusive XML Canonicalization for XML Literals
Added many more checks for bad syntax (mostly illegal property attributes)
Updated `parseType="Collection"` triples after RDF Core WG change
Added an experimental RSS Tag Soup parser to read any pile of XML that has elements such as channel, image, item tags with title, description etc inside them into coherent RSS 1.0 RDF triples. (Requires libxml 2.5.0 or newer)
API: Added new methods raptor_get_name, raptor_get_label.
API: Added new methods raptor_set_default_generate_id_parameters and raptor_set_generate_id_handler to control generation of IDs.
API: Modified utility function raptor_xml_escape_string arguments.
Ripped out ISO 3166 country code parts since commercial use might be subject to a license fee.
Improvements to GTK example 'grapper'.
Several internal reorganisations for pulling out a SAX2 API, XML C14N.
Other minor bug fixes.

## 2003-04-17 Version 0.9.10 Released

Added parser lax / strict modes. lax is the default.
`rdf:bagID` now generates a warning in lax mode, an error in strict
Added raptor_www_no_www_library_init_finish to allow disabling of WWW library startup/shutdown.
Added raptor_parse_abort to abort parsing inside a callback.
Added a GTK GUI example program grapper
Other minor bug fixes.

## 2003-03-28 Version 0.9.9 Released

Performance improvements - uses less memory, less repeated small malloc/free sequences, faster for larger files.
Added WWW retrieval - can parse from an URI as well as files, given either libcurl or libxml2 is available.
Minor bug fixes.
Various Win32 configure, building patches
Sources updated to use autoconf 1.6+, automake 2.52+
More debian packaging updates.

## 2003-02-13 Version 0.9.8 Released

Minor bug fixes (synchronising with Redland 0.9.12 release).
Fixed crashing on empty files
Fixed accepting illegal `xmlns:prefix=""` (prefix without URI not allowed)
N-Triples bnodeIDs can now have '0's
Utility program rdfdump renamed to rapper; name conflicted with a common Linux utility.

## 2002-12-20 Version 0.9.7 Released

Passes about 90% of RDF Core WG Test Cases
All memory leaks fixed
Portability fixes - compilers, scripts, auto* tools, libxml2 version
`rdf:ID` syntax and duplicates checked
`rdf:bagID` supported
Added more conformance tests, errors and warnings.

## 2002-11-02 Version 0.9.6 Released

Calling API changed to provide a common interface to the RDF parsers. The libraptor.3 manual page describes the changes.
Added support for RDF datatyped literals in RDF/XML with `rdf:datatype` attribute on property elements and N-Triples with the `"string"^^<datatypeURIref>`.
Added support for `rdf:parseType="Collection"` for RDF Collections
URI class allows swappable implementation by applications.
URI class now handles file: URIs for Win32 and Unix conventions.
Fixes to enable it to work on Apple OSX 10.1, 10.2 (also tested working on Linux/x86, Solaris/sparc, FreeBSD/x86)
Many internal changes to support API changes, allow it to work with Redland when compiled as a separate library
Reorganised source into separate modules - URI, xml parser, ntriples parser, XML namespaces, XML qnames, locator.
More resilience with XML errors and XML parser errors - none of libxml2's XML test suite examples crash raptor.
N-Triples parser recovers gracefully from errors in content
Packing for debian included
Added manual pages libraptor.3 and rapper.1
Added raptor-config script for compiling with the library.

## 2002-06-08 Version 0.9.5 Released

Many bugs fixed
Added full relative URI resolving
Work around bugs in libxml and expat (older versions)
Support libxml with the use of entities in the document
Support `xml:lang` passing to application

## 2002-03-27 Version 0.9.4 Released

XML Base support (xml:base) added
xml:lang support added with N-Triples lang-string support
All N-Triples string escapes implemented
N-Triples support with XML literals - xml("<foo/>") and plain "foo"
removed all special code for containers; treated as regular typedNodes
`rdf:parseType="Literal"` now working
Builds as shared and static libraries
Conformance test suite added

## 2001-08-21 Version 0.9.3 Released

N-Triples parser added
`rdf:parseType="Literal"` works much better (Aaron Michal and me)
DAML collections support added (Aaron Michal)
Win32 patch added - I can't confirm my merge didn't break this (Aaron Michal)
N-Triples updated to support CR, LF and CR LF endings
Make parser generated ids appear distinguised from regular URIs
Added N-Triples output
Made rdf:type, rdf:value as property attributes work
Made empty typed nodes work
GNOME xml / libxml error location (line, column) values corrected.

## 2001-07-03 Version 0.9.2 Released

Now called Raptor

## 2001-06-06 Version 0.9.1 Released

Many bug fixes
Updates for Redland API changes
Fixed `rdf:parsetype="Literal"` buffer overrun
Added better XML parser auto-detection for various expats and libxml

## 2001-01-22 Version 0.9.0 Released

First release

Copyright 2001-2003 Dave Beckett, Institute for Learning and Research Technology, University of Bristol