[ANN] Apache Jena 3.1.1 released with Fuseki 2.4.1

[Andy Seaborne]

We are pleased to announce the release of Apache Jena 3.1.1 together
with Fuseki 2.4.1.


In this release:

* Improved JSON-LD output
JENA-1208 - François-Paul Servant
http://jena.apache.org/documentation/io/rdf-output.html#json-ld

* Completed F&O XPath3 functions
JENA-508 - Alessandro Seganti

* ComplexPhraseQueryParser
JENA-1180 - Andrew Dolby

* Additional vocabularies (DCAT, VoID, ROV, ORG)
JENA-1206 - Bart Hanssens

* Improvement to the Fuseki service script for RHEL/Centos 6.
JENA-1219 - Dan Pritts

* ORDER BY now cancelable.

* Txn : a highlevel API for working with transactions
http://jena.apache.org/documentation/txn/txn.html

* Embedded Fuseki
http://jena.apache.org/documentation/fuseki2/fuseki-embedded.html

* Property path speed ups (JENA-1195)

* Upgrade to using the Apache HttpClient v4.3 API
=> auth changes cause API changes.

* General maintenance
67 tickets

* Dependency changes:

Updates:
com.github.jsonld-java:jsonld-java 0.7.0 -> 0.8.3

org.apache.httpcomponents:httpClient 4.2.6 -> 4.5.2
org.apache.httpcomponents:httpCache 4.2.6 -> 4.5.2
org.apache.httpcomponents:httpCore 4.2.5 -> 4.4.4

com.jayway.awaitility:awaitility 1.6.4 -> 1.7.0
com.spatial4j:spatial4j 0.4.1 -> 0.5
org.slf4j:* 1.7.20 -> 1.7.21
commons-codec:commons-codec 1.9 -> 1.10
org.apache.commons:commons-collections4 4.0 -> 4.1
org.apache.commons:commons-csv 1.0 -> 1.3
org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 3.3.2 -> 3.4
org.apache.thrift:libthrift 0.9.2 -> 0.9.3
org.apache.mrunit:mrunit 1.0.0 -> 1.1.0
com.github.rvesse:airline 2.1.0 -> 2.1.1


== Obtaining Apache Jena 3.1.1

If migrating from Jena 2.x.x, please see
http://jena.staging.apache.org/documentation/migrate_jena2_jena3.html

* Via central.maven.org

The main jars and their dependencies can used with:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.jena</groupId>
<artifactId>apache-jena-libs</artifactId>
<type>pom</type>
<version>3.1.1</version>
</dependency>

Full details of all maven artifacts are described at:

http://jena.apache.org/download/maven.html

* As binary downloads

Apache Jena libraries are available as a binary distribution of
libraries. For details of a global mirror copy of Jena binaries please see:

http://jena.apache.org/download/

* Source code for the release

The signed source code of this release is available at:

http://www.apache.org/dist/jena/source/

and the signed master source for all Apache Jena releases is available
at: http://archive.apache.org/dist/jena/


== Contributing

If you would like to help out, a good place to look is the list of
unresolved JIRA at:

http://s.apache.org/jena-jira-current

or drop into the dev@ list.

We use github pull requests and other ways for accepting code:
https://github.com/apache/jena/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

The Apache Jena development community