BaseX versions

v8.5 [Jul 26, 2016]
- all registered database jobs are now centrally administered
- jobs can be scheduled (periodical execution, start/end time)
- job results can be cached and retrieved later on
- new Jobs Module: XQuery functions for managing jobs
- new commands: JOBS [LIST|RESULT|STOP]
- DBA: visualization of currently registered jobs.

v8.3 [Oct 11, 2015]
SELECTIVE INDEXING
- restrict value indexing to given elements and attributes
- support extended to updatable and main-memory databases
VALIDATION
- support for RelaxNG validation (XML and compact syntax)
- optional XML Schema 1.1 support
- new function for creating validation reports
XQUERY MODULES
- Strings Module: Levenshtein, Soundex, Cologne Phonetic
- updates in the Archive, Database, Admin and Process modules
DBA
- File panel: upload and download files
BUG FIXES
- automatic database optimization if node id turns negative
- XQuery optimizations, performance tweaks, WebDAV issues

v7.9 [Jun 29, 2014]
XQUNIT
- Unit testing has been improved a lot. All test functions will now be evaluated separately; this way, updates can be performed within test.
- with the new TEST command, all test modules in a specified directory can be evaluated.
- tests can be invoked from within the GUI editor and project view.
- on command-line, the -t flag can be used for the same purpose.
RESTXQ
- Custom HTTP methods can be defined via %rest:method
- Error handling has been improved and aligned with try/catch
REST
- The "run" operation allows execution of server-side command scripts
DATABASE MODULE
- parsing options added to db:create, db:add and db:replace