We are pleased to announce new releases of Jena and ARQ. The codebase has been
upgraded to use Java Generics in the public APIs and throughout the
implementation code.


Jena: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jena/jena-2.6.0.zip

ARQ: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jena/arq-2.7.0.zip

The version of ARQ in the Jena download and version of Jena in the ARQ download
are sync'ed to these releases. You only need download one of them to get all
the jar files.

The difference is that the Jena download has the documentation, source and
examples for Jena, and the ARQ download has the documentation, source and
examples for ARQ.


== Major changes

* Many jar changes including switching to SLF4J as the logging API.
Gone: commons-logging-1.1.1.jar, antlr-2.7.5.jar, concurrent.jar, junit.jar
New: slf4j-api-1.5.6.jar, slf4j-log4j12-1.5.6.jar, junit-4.5.jar
Upgraded: iri.jar

* The RDB database subsystem is deprecated for new developments.
We recommend using SDB or TDB.
The RDB code is still included in Jena2 for existing systems.

* Deprecation clearout - previous deprecated methods removed.

== Maven

Jena and ARQ are available as artifacts for Maven and Apache Ivy.

The Jena repository is http://jena.hpl.hp.com/repo.
This is mirrored to repo1.maven.org (mirroring may take 24 hours to happen).