Elemental 6.10.0 and 7.6.0 have been released

We are delighted to announce that Elemental versions 6.10.0 and 7.6.0 have just been released.

These releases includes a small number of important bug fixes, and a few new features including: enhancements to the REST API, and the ability to alias Internet Media Types.

In particular we have fixed a number or memory and resource leaks (inherited from eXist-db), these fixes should provide a more stable operating environment for users.

We have also laid the ground-work in these releases for a future release that will enable smoother integration with external systems; we are now working towards integrations with XML Calabash (for XProc) and XSpec (for XQuery testing).

The releases are available from:

• https://github.com/evolvedbinary/elemental/releases/tag/elemental-6.10.0
• https://github.com/evolvedbinary/elemental/releases/tag/elemental-7.6.0

Features

1. You can now set both the Context Item and the Default Collection when executing an XQuery via the REST API - #199.
2. Added a facility to allow users to define aliases of Internet Media Types. The following aliases were added by default: `text/xml` -> `application/xml`, `text/xml-external-parsed-entity` -> `application/xml-external-parsed-entity`, and `application/javascript` -> `text/javascript` - #170.
3. Additional XML Internet Media Types were added to the default database - #187 (Closes issue: eXist-db/exist/issues/4443).
4. The Security Manager's XQuery permisions functions have been optimised. This greatly reduces the time it takes to list Collection and Documents; it is particuarly noticeable in eXide's Directory view - #172.
5. The XPath extension functions for Oracle DBMS are now included by default - #165
6. The minimum eXist-db Compatibility level for EXPath Packages has been bumped from 6.3.0 to 6.4.0. This allows for newer versions of eXide and Monex to be used - #195.

Bug Fixes

1. OpenDocument files and Office Open XML files are now correctly stored as binaries - #193 (Closes issue: #189).
2. Several memory and resource leaks (that were inherited from eXist-db) have been found and fixed within:
   1. The XPath 3.1 Arrow Operator - #174.
   2. The XPath 3.1 Lookup Operator - #182.
   3. Implementations of the XPath 3.0 Inline Functions - #176.
   4. The XPath extension function `sql:execute` - #178.
   5. The XPath extension function `util:eval` - #180.
3. A Race Condition (that was inherited from eXist-db) that could occur when sorting values in XQuery has been found and fixed - #199.

Backwards Compatibility

• Elemental 6.10.0 is 100% backwards compatible with Elemental 6.9.1 (and eXist-db 6.4.0), and it should be a simple drop-in replacement for any user. Like Elemental 6.9.1 it requires Java 8.
• Elemental 7.6.0 is 100% backwards compatible with Elemental 7.5.1, and it should be a simple drop-in replacement for any user. Like Elemental 7.5.1 it requires Java 21.

Further information and downloads can be found here: https://github.com/evolvedbinary/elemental/releases