v5.0.0-RC4 - September 21, 2018 

The fourth Release Candidate (RC) for eXist-db 5.0.0 has been released. eXist-db 5.0.0-RC4 builds atop eXist-db 5.0.0-RC3 with a just one new feature, and several small but important ...

v4.4.0 - September 21, 2018

eXist-db v4.4.0 has just been released. This is a minor release, which contains a few new features and several bug fixes. We recommend that all users of eXist-db 4.x.x should ...

Enhancements:

• A new —very low-level— parameter -p edit.ids.automatic-ids regex_pattern lets the user specify which bookmarks automatically generated by MS-Word ("_GoBack", "_Toc123", etc) are to be preserved by the conversion process, and this, even when such bookmarks are not ...

Enhancements:

• DocBook, DITA configurations: added "Add footnote" and "Add note" buttons to the toolbar.
• XHTML, DocBook, DITA configurations: added a "Normalize Whitespace" entry to the menu displayed by the Listing toolbar button. This entry invokes new normalizeWhiteSpacePre command which normalizes ...

Enhancements:

• Full Lightweight DITA (AKA LwDITA) support, whether XDITA (very small subset of DITA XML, plus new audio and video elements), HDITA (topics and maps written in HTML5) or MDITA Extended Profile (topics and maps written in Markdown).

  XMLmind DITA ...

Enhancements:

• In addition to HTML, an ebook page may now be written in Markdown.

  Many “Markdown dialects” and many Markdown syntax extensions are supported, thanks to flexmark-java, the software component used to implement Markdown support in ebookc.

  However for this ...

v5.0.0-RC3 - August 1, 2018

The third Release Candidate (RC) for eXist-db 5.0.0 has been released. eXist-db 5.0.0-RC3 builds atop eXist-db 5.0.0-RC2 with a just one new feature, and several small but important ...

v5.0.0-RC2 - July 25, 2018

The second Release Candidate (RC) for eXist-db 5.0.0 has been released. eXist-db 5.0.0-RC2 builds atop eXist-db 5.0.0-RC1 with a few new features, important bug fixes, and some small ...

v4.3.1 - July 24, 2018

eXist-db v4.3.1 has just been released. This is a hot-fix release, which contains several important bug fixes. We recommend that all users of eXist-db 4.x.x should upgrade to eXist-db 4 ...