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    Release 2.8.0: Support for quoted triples (RDF-star and SPARQL-star)

    Tuesday, July 4, 2023

    This minor release focuses on a single but significant new feature: support for quoted triples.

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    Release 2.7.0: Better date support, better performance over SPARQL endpoints, and internal fixes

    Wednesday, May 24, 2023

    Today, we released a new minor update, which brings exciting new features, performance improvements, and bug fixes. Below, you can find an overview of the main changes.

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    Release 2.5.0: Fixes, string sources, and HTTP error handling

    Wednesday, November 9, 2022

    We just released a new small update. Here's an overview of the main changes.

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    Release 2.4.0: Better browser support and performance improvements

    Wednesday, August 24, 2022

    We just released a new minor version of Comunica. Here's an overview of the main changes.

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    Official launch of the Comunica Association

    Thursday, July 14, 2022

    As previously announced, we will be officially launching the Comunica Association during the fall of this year. More concretely, we are organizing an online launch event on the 7th of September, and we will be physically present at the Semantics conference in Vienna the week afterwards.

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    Release 2.3.0: Better timeout support and minor enhancements

    Wednesday, June 29, 2022

    It's been a while since our latest blog post, so here's a small announcement on the latest 2.3.0 release.

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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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Hacktoberfest and Release 1.17.0

    Friday, September 25, 2020

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

    Monday, August 24, 2020

    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.

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