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Release 2.0.0: A new major release with radical simplifications and performance improvements

Thursday, March 3, 2022

Since its initial release a couple of years ago, Comunica has grown a lot, but it has always remained fully backwards-compatible with every update. However, as with every software project, there is sometimes a need to make breaking changes so that old mechanisms can be replaced with better, newer ones. With this update, we have aggregated several breaking changes into one large update, all of which should improve the lives of users one way or another. Below, the primary changes are listed.

Comunica Association Memberships

Monday, November 8, 2021

Earlier this year, we announced the Comunica Association, which is a non-profit organization that aims to make Comunica sustainable in the long term. In this post, we announce the possibility to become a member or sponsor to the association, allowing organizations to drive the future roadmap of Comunica. We plan an official launch in fall 2022, up until when organizations can choose to become a founding member of the Comunica Association.

Release 1.22.0: Improved update support, extension functions, and improved CLI handling

Monday, August 30, 2021

The 1.22.0 version features some major additions, and a bunch of smaller internal fixes and performance improvements 🚀! The primary changes that are discussed in this post are support for more SPARQL update destination types, SPARQL extension functions, and rewritten CLI handling.

Announcing the Comunica Association, and a Bounty Program

Monday, June 21, 2021

In this post, we announce the creation of the Comunica Association, and the introduction of a new bounty system using which organizations and companies can fund development of new features and the fixing of bugs, and through which developers can take up these bounties and get paid.

Release 1.21.0: Hypermedia-based SPARQL Updating

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

The 1.21.0 version is a smaller release, that mainly introduces the necessary wiring to enable hypermedia-driven SPARQL update querying, which lays the foundations for highly flexible updating of heterogeneous destinations, such as Solid data pods.

In other words, this provides the necessary ✨_magic_✨ for updating many different types of things.

Release 1.20.0: SPARQL Update support

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

With this new 1.20.0 release, we bring support for SPARQL Update queries to Comunica. Next to this, several enhancements were made to improve developer experience, minor new features, and important bug fixes.

Release 1.19.0: Simplifications for extensions

Monday, January 18, 2021

The 1.19.0 release focuses on simplications for developing Comunica extension. It contains no significant fixes or changes for end-users.

Release 1.18.0: Smaller Web bundles and Microdata parsing

Monday, November 2, 2020

This post gives a brief overview of the new 1.18.0 release.

Hacktoberfest and Release 1.17.0

Friday, September 25, 2020

In this post, we give an overview of contribution possibilities during Hacktoberfest, and the newly released 1.17.0 version.

Release 1.16.0: Full spec compliance, property paths, CSV/TSV, basic auth, and fixes

Monday, August 24, 2020

With the latest release of Comunica, we have achieved the major milestone of full compliance to the SPARQL 1.1 specification. While Comunica has had support for all SPARQL 1.1 operators for a while, some small parts were not always fully handled according to the spec, and property paths were not fully supported.

Thanks to the help of several students over the summer, these issues have been resolved, and all tests from the SPARQL 1.1 test suite now pass.

A New Website for Comunica

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

We're happy to present a brand new website for Comunica! 🎉 Don't know that Comunica is? Read about it here.

This new version contains all basic information around Comunica. Additionally, it contains guides on how to query with Comunica, and how to modify or extend it.