New versions have been released: Jena 2.6.2 and ARQ 2.8.1

These are primarily maintenance releases but do use a new build system.
(Jena 2.6.1 was an internal label, not used for a release)

Files via SourceForge's new file release system at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/jena/files/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/jena/files/Jena/Jena-2.6.2/jena-2.6.2.zip/downl\
oad

https://sourceforge.net/projects/jena/files/ARQ/ARQ-2.8.1/arq-2.8.1.zip/download

You only need to download one of these to get jars. The Jena
distribution contains the source, javadoc and test materials for Jena;
the ARQ distribution contains the source, javadoc and test materials for
ARQ.

There have been many process changes to the build and release - if you
encounter any problems, please let us know.

== Changes - Jena

+ Resource.addLiteral() now has an overload that takes a Literal object
and uses it as the statement object unaltered.
Similarly model.addLiteral() has a Literal overloading.

+ N3 pretty writer now writes Turtle (no use of "=" for owl:sameAs)

+ Maven release system.

+ Update to iri-0.7.jar (version 0.7).

+ Change the way URIs are split into namespace and
local part so as to not split %-encoded sequences.

== Changes - ARQ

+ Fix bad lock allocation (only occurs under very high load)
+ Speed up processing of nested optionals.
Greatly speeds up BSBM with TDB.

== Maven/Ivy

Release repository: http://openjena.org/repo
** Note change of repository.

We are awaiting a change to the mirror process to get this into
repo1.maven.org, otherwise it would normally be mirrored to
http://repo1.maven.org/ within 24 hours.

Group: com.hp.hpl.jena
Artifact: jena
Versions: 2.6.2

Group: com.hp.hpl.jena
Artifact: arq
Version: 2.8.1

== Maven Distribution Information

The maven repository section for Jena contains the following files:

jena-2.6.2.jar Jena jar
jena-2.6.2.pom POM

jena-2.6.2-javadoc.jar Javadoc
jena-2.6.2-sources.jar Sources

jena-2.6.2-tests.jar Jena testing code
jena-2.6.2-test-sources.jar Sources for the tests

jena-2.6.2.zip The complete distribution file

Only the main artifact "jena-2.6.2.jar" is needed by an application.

To run the tests, download "jena-2.6.2.zip".


The maven repository section for ARQ contains the following files:

arq-2.8.1.jar ARQ jar
arq-2.8.1.pom ARQ POM

arq-2.8.1-javadoc.jar Javadoc
arq-2.8.1-sources.jar Sources

arq-2.8.1-tests.jar ARQ testing code
arq-2.8.1-test-sources.jar Sources for test code
arq-2.8.1-tests.zip Datafiles for tests, and test scripts.

arq-2.8.1.zip The complete distribution file

Only the main artifact "arq-2.8.1.jar" is needed at runtime.

To run tests, you will need 'arq-2.8.1.jar', 'arq-2.8.1-tests.jar' and
all dependences and to unpack 'arq-2.8.1-tests.zip' to get the "testing"
data directory and test scripts.

Or download the distribution "arq-2.8.1.zip" which has everything for ARQ.

Andy