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The eXist project has released the second beta of eXist 1.0. eXist is an open source native XML database, featuring index-based XQuery processing, XUpdate support, and much more. It is published under the LGPL.
The eXist project has released the second beta of eXist 1.0. eXist is an open source native XML database, featuring index-based XQuery processing, XUpdate support, and much more. It is published under the LGPL.

This release benefits from a lot of testing done by other projects, and fixes many instabilities and database corruptions that were still present in the previous version.

In particular, the XUpdate implementation should now have reached a stable state. Concurrent XUpdates are fully supported. The XQuery implementation has matured, adding support for collations, computed constructors, and more. Module loading has been improved, allowing more complex web interfaces to be written entirely in XQuery (see new admin interface). Finally, there's a new WebDAV module, a reindex/repair option and support for running eXist as a system service.

This release benefits from a lot of testing done by other projects, and fixes many instabilities and database corruptions that were still present in the previous version.

In particular, the XUpdate implementation should now have reached a stable state. Concurrent XUpdates are fully supported. The XQuery implementation has matured, adding support for collations, computed constructors, and more. Module loading has been improved, allowing more complex web interfaces to be written entirely in XQuery (see new admin interface). Finally, there's a new WebDAV module, a reindex/repair option and support for running eXist as a system service.