Hi,

we are pleased to announce a new version 0.5 of Sedna.

http://www.modis.ispras.ru/Development/sedna.htm

New:

- Support for transactions (rollback and concurrency control)

- Support for database security (users and privileges)

- Support for Unicode (utf8)

- Support for XQuery external functions implemented in C

  (limited to deal with sequences of atomic values only)

- Directory structure and file names changed according to "Filesystem

Hierarchy Standard" (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html).

- Support for the following standard XQuery functions is added:

fn:string, fn:string-length, fn:concat, fn:data

- Update language is extended with the replace statement

- Parameters of DDL statements are now computable

- No limitation on the size of an XQuery query

- Sedna API driver for the Gambit-C implementation of Scheme

- Sedna package for Alt Linux is now availible at

http://altlinux.org/index.php?module=sisyphus&package=sedna

(the package includes the previous version 0.4)

- Bug fixes

Cheers,

Maxim Grinev

Sedna team