# Raptor RDF Parser Library - News

## 2008-06-25 Raptor Version 1.4.18 Released

Added an RDFa parser using an embedded version of librdfa by Manu Sporny of Digital Bazaar.
Added an Atom 1.0 (RFC 4287) serializer with several output parameters.
Improved RSS 1.0 serializer functionality and resilience.
Added new API methods for qname, serializer, sequence and XML writer classes.
Many other fixes and resilience improvements.
Fixed reported issues: 0000186 and 0000255.

See the Raptor 1.4.18 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.

## 2008-03-30 Raptor Version 1.4.17 Released

Added two new JSON serializers: resource-centric 'json' (Talis RDF/JSON) and triple-centric 'json-triples'
Added a new public XML SAX2 API class
Added a new error handling structure
Made the I/O Stream class support reading
Added several new API methods.
Made several fixes, portability and resilience improvements.
Fixed reported issues: 0000252 and 0000245.

See the Raptor 1.4.17 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.

## 2007-10-01 Raptor Version 1.4.16 Released

100% support for the GRDDL W3C Recommendation of 2007-09-11
Turtle parser and serializer were updated to support `@base` from Turtle 2007-09-11.
Turtle and RDF/XML serializers had performance improvements for large graphs.
Added a TRiG Parser based on Turtle with named graph support.
Several other API changes, fixed and improvements were made.
Fixed reported issues: 0000188, 0000192, 0000194, 0000195, 0000207, 0000210, 0000214, 0000216, 0000217, 0000232, 0000237, 0000238 and 0000239
Many other fixes and improvements.

See the Raptor 1.4.16 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.

## 2007-03-26 Raptor Version 1.4.15 Released

GRDDL parser substantially updated to support the GRDDL W3C Working Draft 2 March 2007
Errors for XML parsing and URI 404s are reported much better
Fixed reported issues: #0000174, #0000177, #0000178, #0000180
Many other minor fixes and improvements.

See the Raptor 1.4.15 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.

## 2007-01-31 Raptor Version 1.4.14 Released

New Turtle serializer by Dave Robillard based on the existing RDF/XML-Abbrev serializer.
New GraphViz DOT format serializer by Evan Nemerson.
GRDDL parser now does namespace and profile URI recursion and has other improvements and fixes.
Fixed reported issues: #0000032, #0000141, #0000143, #0000148, #0000155 and #0000157
Many other fixes and improvements.

See the Raptor 1.4.14 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.

## 2006-10-22 Raptor Version 1.4.13 Released

Fixed a memory leak in reusing the XML writer
Fixed reported issues: #0000134
Minor updates and fixes to tutorial, configuration and build

See the Raptor 1.4.13 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.

## 2006-08-27 Raptor Version 1.4.12 Released

Restore serializer enumeration ordering back to that of 1.4.10 which was causing Redland problems when writing type 'application/rdf+xml'.

See the Raptor 1.4.12 Release Notes for the gory details.

## 2006-08-26 Raptor Version 1.4.11 Released

Added network request filtering for parsers
Improved the GRDDL parser to read Embedded RDF and HCalendar
The Guess parser can now be reused to do multiple guesses
The RSS 1.0 Serializer now works again
Fixed reported issues: #0000014, #0000041, #0000089, #0000091 , #0000110 and #0000112
Made several other changes, fixes and improvements.

See the Raptor 1.4.11 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.

## 2006-07-14 Raptor Version 1.4.10 Released

Fixed a crash with RSS Tag Soup parser generating triples too late
Fixed a crash with the RDF/XML parser and serializer if a comment was seen outside an element
Parsers no longer generate any triple parts of type `RAPTOR_IDENTIFIER_TYPE_ORDINAL`

See the Raptor 1.4.10 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.

## 2006-04-22 Raptor Version 1.4.9 Released

Raptor Tutorial added covering parsing and serializing with examples
Raptor Reference Manual now covers 100% of the public API
`rapper` can now pretty-print RDF using namespaces as hints
Turtle parser gains boolean literals
Requests for content now send appropriate `Accept:` headers
No longer require libxml for rss-tag-soup parser
Various Win32 fixes and VC build files updates (John Barstow)
Many other bug fixes and changes were made.

NOTE: Generation of `RAPTOR_IDENTIFIER_TYPE_PREDICATE` was removed as deprecated in 1.4.8.

See the Raptor 1.4.9 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.

## 2006-01-03 Raptor Version 1.4.8 Released

RSS Tag Soup parser now reads Atom 1.0 and rewrites old Atom 0.3 terms
Added a guess parser that picks the parser to use based on protocol information such as HTTP `Content-Type`
Created an enhanced API reference manual with `gtk-doc`
Serializers to build can now be selected at configure time
Parsers can now return the namespace prefix/URIs seen in parsing
Turtle parser update to version 2006-01-02 (announcement)
Fix for URI resolution bugs (win32 fix by John Barstow)
Several parser bug fixes for RDF/XML, RSS and GRDDL
RDF/XML serializers and XML writer can write XML 1.0 or XML 1.1
Added an alpha Atom 1.0 serializer
Added an Adobe XMP (RDF/XML profile) serializer
Internal source reorganisation
Many other changes, fixes and improvements.

NOTE: Raptor will be switching to use Subversion for version control after the 1.4.8 release. See the Redland Subversion site or the online Raptor installation notes for the latest information.

See the Raptor 1.4.8 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.

## 2005-06-08 Raptor Version 1.4.7 Released

Fix crashes in the RSS tag soup parser / serializer (Suzan Foster)
Fix a crash in the RDF/XML serializers with bad URI predicates.

See the Raptor 1.4.7 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.

## 2005-05-19 Raptor Version 1.4.6 Released

Added a Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL) parser for reading XHTML and XML as RDF triples
Updated RSS enclosures support in RSS tag soup parser and RSS 1.0 serializer (Suzan Foster)
Fixed several crashes with RSS tag soup parser, RDF/XML-abbrev serializer.
The turtle parser now accepts """long literals"""

See the Raptor 1.4.6 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.

## 2005-02-06 Raptor Version 1.4.5 Released

Added an RDF/XML with abbreviations serializer (Steve Shepard)
Handle RSS 1.1 in RSS tag soup parser
More fixes for broken OSX libxml2

See the Raptor 1.4.5 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.

## 2005-01-15 Raptor Version 1.4.4 Released

Fixed crashes in RSS tag soup parser and RSS 1.0 serializer
Handle RSS 0.9 namespace in RSS tag soup parser
Portability fixes for Win32 (Dave Viner)

See the Raptor 1.4.4 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.

## 2005-01-03 Raptor Version 1.4.3 Released

New XML Writer API
Improved RDF/XML serializer allowing user namespace declarations and writing relative URIs where possible
New RSS 1.0 serializer
Updated RSS tag soup parser
URI class can write relative URIs (Patch from René Puls)
Many other API changes

See the Raptor 1.4.3 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.

## 2004-11-01 Raptor Version 1.4.2 Released

Fix `raptor_xml_escape_string` error return.

See the Raptor 1.4.2 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.

## 2004-10-29 Raptor Version 1.4.1 Released

Fixed crashes in URI decoding and RSS enclosures.

See the Raptor 1.4.1 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.

## 2004-10-24 Raptor Version 1.4.0 Released

Added a serializing class for writing RDF triples as a syntax
Added serializers for RDF/XML and N-Triples
Added an I/O stream class for aiding writing
Added RSS enclosure support to RSS Tag Soup parser (Suzan Foster)

See the Raptor 1.4.0 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.

## 2004-09-20 Raptor Version 1.3.3 Released

License changed to LGPL 2.1/Apache 2
Added a new Unicode NFC checker
Rewritten URI parsing and resolving code
Added configure selection of RDF parsers
Updated the RSS Tag Soup parser to handle Atom 0.3
Updated the Turtle parser to handle large documents (Geoff Chappell)
Added a parser feature to disable rdf:ID duplicate checking
Updated rdf:ID duplicate value checking implementation
Portability fixes for building on win32 (Chris Pointon)

See the Raptor 1.3.3 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.

## 2004-07-21 Raptor Version 1.3.2 Released

Added support for compiling against expat source trees (Mark Smith)
Added `raptor_alloc_memory` to allocate memory in raptor, typically needed by handler routines on win32.
Make errors in fetching WWW content pass to the main error handler.
Added accessor functions for parts of the raptor_locator structure (Edd Dumbill)
Disabled the broken Unicode NFC checking via GNOME glib for this release.

See the Raptor 1.3.2 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.

## 2004-06-12 Raptor Version 1.3.1 Released

Correct `raptor_print_statement` declaration argument statement to have one less 'const', to match the code.
raptor.h now includes stdarg.h
Portability fixes for win32
Updates to Turtle parser to only allow language with non-datatyped literals; allow a '_' immediately after a ':' in qnames and make bare ':' work.
Added a warning for unknown `rdf:parseType` values, when parsing in lax mode. This is controlled by a new parser feature warn_other_parsetypes
The Turtle parser was fixed to re-initialise correctly when performing multiple parsings
Fixes to the file: URI support for %-escaping and for Win32 filenames

See the Raptor 1.3.1 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.

## 2004-05-11 Raptor Version 1.3.0 Released

Updated Turtle parser to fix the collections syntax, add integer literals and allow - in names.
Added support for guessing a parser from content or identifiers
Completed parser feature support
Added sending HTTP Accept: headers for WWW retrieval when possible
Added new utility sequence and stringbuffer classes
Several other functions added and improvements made.

See the Raptor 1.3.0 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.

## 2004-01-24 Raptor Version 1.2.0 Released

Added a Turtle parser (was N-Triples Plus) now with collections.
Added raptor_syntaxes_enumerate to get syntax name, label, mime_type or uri_string of all known parsers.
Added WWW access via BSD libfetch if available.
Updated the GNOME GUI grapper program to report errors and warnings

## 2003-12-31 Raptor Version 1.1.0 Released

Added an N-Triples Plus parser
Updated for RDF/XML Revised Working Draft (10 October 2003) allowing `rdf:RDF` to be optional by default. No further changes were needed for RDF/XML Revised Proposed Recommendation (15 December 2003)
Made URI class constructors, methods and factory methods as well as some other utility functions using or returning URIs or literals take `unsigned char*` rather than `char*`.
Added the XML namespace, XML namespace stack and XML qname classes to the public API.
Added a function to discover supported parsers.
Fixes for line number counting in N-Triples
Added support for libxml2 SAX2 API for 2.6.0 and later.
The N-Triples parser now uses the generate ID code.
Added configure options for XML 1.1 names and disabling NFC check code.

## 2003-09-08 Raptor Version 1.0.0 Released

Several long-deprecated functions were removed and consequently the library shared version number was increased to 1
Fixed scanning for `rdf:RDF` so that RDF/XML in other XML works, such as in SVG
`raptor-config --libs` now works, added `--libtool-libs` and `--version-decimal`
Check N-Triples legal Unicode character range #x0-#x10FFFF
Normalize RDF/XML `xml:lang` and N-Triples language to lowercase on input
Worked around libxml2 bug causing a crash on some error reporting
Added raptor_parse_file_stream for parsing a C FILE*
Tidied rapper utility argument handling, added --version

## 2003-08-25 Raptor Version 0.9.12 Released

Fix some XML memory leaks in Exclusive XML Canonicalization.
Stop parsing RSS tag soup after a user abort
Improved N-Triples syntax checking.
Crash fixes for 64 bit Alpha/Sparc Linux/Solaris (varargs, size_t)
Fixed some other minor memory leaks with `rdf:datatype` and `rdf:ID` attributes.

## 2003-07-29 Raptor Version 0.9.11 Released

Completely handles the revised RDF/XML syntax (including post W3C Last Call changes)
Added Unicode Normal Form C (NFC) checking for literals (requires GNOME glib 2.0 at present)
Added Exclusive XML Canonicalization for XML Literals
Added many more checks for bad syntax (mostly illegal property attributes)
Updated `parseType="Collection"` triples after RDF Core WG change
Added an experimental RSS Tag Soup parser to read any pile of XML that has elements such as channel, image, item tags with title, description etc inside them into coherent RSS 1.0 RDF triples. (Requires libxml 2.5.0 or newer)
API: Added new methods raptor_get_name, raptor_get_label.
API: Added new methods raptor_set_default_generate_id_parameters and raptor_set_generate_id_handler to control generation of IDs.
API: Modified utility function raptor_xml_escape_string arguments.
Ripped out ISO 3166 country code parts since commercial use might be subject to a license fee.
Improvements to GTK example 'grapper'.
Several internal reorganisations for pulling out a SAX2 API, XML C14N.
Other minor bug fixes.

## 2003-04-17 Raptor Version 0.9.10 Released

Added parser lax / strict modes. lax is the default.
`rdf:bagID` now generates a warning in lax mode, an error in strict
Added raptor_www_no_www_library_init_finish to allow disabling of WWW library startup/shutdown.
Added raptor_parse_abort to abort parsing inside a callback.
Added a GTK GUI example program grapper
Other minor bug fixes.

## 2003-03-28 Raptor Version 0.9.9 Released

Performance improvements - uses less memory, less repeated small malloc/free sequences, faster for larger files.
Added WWW retrieval - can parse from an URI as well as files, given either libcurl or libxml2 is available.
Minor bug fixes.
Various Win32 configure, building patches
Sources updated to use autoconf 1.6+, automake 2.52+
More debian packaging updates.

## 2003-02-13 Raptor Version 0.9.8 Released

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.

## 2002-12-20 Raptor Version 0.9.7 Released

Passes about 90% of RDF Core WG Test Cases
All memory leaks fixed
Portability fixes - compilers, scripts, auto* tools, libxml2 version
`rdf:ID` syntax and duplicates checked
`rdf:bagID` supported
Added more conformance tests, errors and warnings.

## 2002-11-02 Raptor Version 0.9.6 Released

Calling API changed to provide a common interface to the RDF parsers. The libraptor.3 manual page describes the changes.
Added support for RDF datatyped literals in RDF/XML with `rdf:datatype` attribute on property elements and N-Triples with the `"string"^^<datatypeURIref>`.
Added support for `rdf:parseType="Collection"` for RDF Collections
URI class allows swappable implementation by applications.
URI class now handles file: URIs for Win32 and Unix conventions.
Fixes to enable it to work on Apple OSX 10.1, 10.2 (also tested working on Linux/x86, Solaris/sparc, FreeBSD/x86)
Many internal changes to support API changes, allow it to work with Redland when compiled as a separate library
Reorganised source into separate modules - URI, xml parser, ntriples parser, XML namespaces, XML qnames, locator.
More resilience with XML errors and XML parser errors - none of libxml2's XML test suite examples crash raptor.
N-Triples parser recovers gracefully from errors in content
Packing for debian included
Added manual pages libraptor.3 and rapper.1
Added raptor-config script for compiling with the library.

## 2002-06-08 Raptor Version 0.9.5 Released

Many bugs fixed
Added full relative URI resolving
Work around bugs in libxml and expat (older versions)
Support libxml with the use of entities in the document
Support `xml:lang` passing to application

## 2002-03-27 Raptor Version 0.9.4 Released

XML Base support (xml:base) added
xml:lang support added with N-Triples lang-string support
All N-Triples string escapes implemented
N-Triples support with XML literals - xml("<foo/>") and plain "foo"
removed all special code for containers; treated as regular typedNodes
`rdf:parseType="Literal"` now working
Builds as shared and static libraries
Conformance test suite added

## 2001-08-21 Raptor Version 0.9.3 Released

N-Triples parser added
`rdf:parseType="Literal"` works much better (Aaron Michal and me)
DAML collections support added (Aaron Michal)
Win32 patch added - I can't confirm my merge didn't break this (Aaron Michal)
N-Triples updated to support CR, LF and CR LF endings
Make parser generated ids appear distinguised from regular URIs
Added N-Triples output
Made rdf:type, rdf:value as property attributes work
Made empty typed nodes work
GNOME xml / libxml error location (line, column) values corrected.

## 2001-07-03 Raptor Version 0.9.2 Released

Now called Raptor

## 2001-06-06 Raptor Version 0.9.1 Released

Many bug fixes
Updates for Redland API changes
Fixed `rdf:parsetype="Literal"` buffer overrun
Added better XML parser auto-detection for various expats and libxml

## 2001-01-22 Raptor Version 0.9.0 Released

First release

Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Dave Beckett
Copyright (C) 2001-2005 University of Bristol