eXist-db 3.6.1 Released

eXist-db v3.6.1 has just been released. This is a hotfix release, which contains bug fixes for several important issues discovered since eXist-db v3.6.0. We recommend that all users of eXist 3.6.0 should upgrade to eXist 3.6.1.

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue where the package manager wrote non-well-formed XML that caused problems during backup/restore. #1620
• Fixed namespace prefix for attributes and namespace nodes.
• Made sure the localName of a in memory element is correctly obtained under various namespace declaration conditions
• Fix for NPE in org.exist.xquery.functions.fn.FunId #1642
• Several atomic comparisons raise wrong error code #1638
• General comparison to empty sequence sometimes raises an error #1639
• Warn if no <target> is found in an EXPath packages's repo.xml

Backwards Compatibility

eXist-db v3.6.1 is backwards binary-compatible as far as v3.0, but not with earlier versions. Users upgrading from previous versions should perform a full backup and restore to migrate their data.

Downloading This Version

eXist-db v3.6.1 is available for download from Bintray. Maven artifacts for eXist-db v3.6.1 are available from our mvn-repo. Mac users of the Homebrew package repository may acquire eXist 3.6.1directly from there.