Redland Blog

• FORMAT CHANGE The persistent storage format was
  changed to support RDF typed literals and this will require an
  upgrade of any existing Berkeley/Sleepycat DB stores created by
  Redland 0.9.11 or earlier. A utility redland-db-upgrade is
  provided that creates an updated store from an existing one.
• API CHANGE Iterator and Stream classes. The next/get_next method is split into get_object always returning a shared object and next methods. get_context method added. (get_object is called current in higher level language APIs)
• API CHANGE Model class. Method add_statement no longer takes ownership of the passed in statement. The caller now retains ownership.
• API CHANGE Model class. Method add_statements no longer frees the passed in librdf_stream; the caller must free it now.
• API CHANGE Node and Model classes. Added RDF Datatyped Literals. Other literal is_wf_xml constructors and methods deprecated.
• API CHANGE All literals methods and constructors have no
  mention of the never-used or supported XML Space argument which is not part
  of an RDF literal.
• Added a script utils/update-api-0912.pl
  to help automate the API changes as far as possible or warn about those
  that cannot be automatically updated.
• Added contexts – Statements added to Model (when using a Storage that
  supports contexts) can take an optional Node, returned by the new
  get_context method on Iterator and Stream classes.
• Many portability and compiling fixes (OSX, gcc 3.x, FreeBSD, non-gcc compiler)
• Java API classes. Add finished() method replacing useless finalize().
• Use Raptor message callbacks to get parser warnings and errors
• Build Java API working around the stupid things recent SWIG versions do.
• Make Redland work with BDB/Sleepycat DB v4 (as well as v2 and v3)
• Python API gains pydoc comments and HTML derived version
• Perl and Python APIs now receive Redland message callbacks
• Redland URI class now registers with Raptor rather than specially compile Raptor
• Added RDF/XML Serializer class and made higher level language APIs to it
• Update to Raptor version 0.9.8 (RDF/XML and N-Triples parser) – see
  Raptor NEWS
  for detailed changes since 0.9.5
• Added skeleton Ruby and PHP APIs
• Major source reorganisation.

See also the 0.9.12 Release Notes

• 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.