5.0.0 Release Notes (#5025)

Author: hmottestad

site/content/download.md

@@ -5,15 +5,15 @@ toc: true
 
 You can either retrieve RDF4J via Apache Maven, or download the SDK or onejar directly.
 
-## RDF4J 4.3.12 (latest)
+## RDF4J 5.0.0 (latest)
 
-RDF4J 4.3.12 is our latest stable release. It requires Java 11 minimally.
-For details on what’s new and how to upgrade, see the [release and upgrade notes](/release-notes/4.3.12).
+RDF4J 5.0.0 is our latest stable release. It requires Java 11 minimally.
+For details on what’s new and how to upgrade, see the [release and upgrade notes](/release-notes/5.0.0).
 
-- [RDF4J 4.3.12 SDK (zip)](http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/rdf4j/eclipse-rdf4j-4.3.12-sdk.zip)<br/>
+- [RDF4J 5.0.0 SDK (zip)](http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/rdf4j/eclipse-rdf4j-5.0.0-sdk.zip)<br/>
   Full Eclipse RDF4J SDK, containing all libraries, RDF4J Server, Workbench, and Console applications, and Javadoc API.
 
-- [RDF4J 4.3.12 onejar](http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/rdf4j/eclipse-rdf4j-4.3.12-onejar.jar)<br/>
+- [RDF4J 5.0.0 onejar](http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/rdf4j/eclipse-rdf4j-5.0.0-onejar.jar)<br/>
   Single jar file for easy inclusion of the full RDF4J toolkit in your Java project.
 
 - [RDF4J artifacts](https://search.maven.org/search?q=org.eclipse.rdf4j) on the [Maven Central Repository](http://search.maven.org/)
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ You can include RDF4J as a Maven dependency in your Java project by including th
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.eclipse.rdf4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>rdf4j-bom</artifactId>
-            <version>4.3.12</version>
+            <version>5.0.0</version>
             <type>pom</type>
             <scope>import</scope>
         </dependency>
@@ -50,31 +50,21 @@ See the [Setup instructions](/documentation/programming/setup) in the
 [Programmer’s documentation](/documentation/) for more details on Maven and
 which artifacts RDF4J provides.
 
+## Older releases
 
-## RDF4J 5.0.0-M3
-
-RDF4J 5.0.0-M3 is our latest milestone build of the upcoming 5.0.0 release. It requires Java 11 minimally.
-For details on what’s new and how to upgrade, see the [release and upgrade notes](/news/rdf4j-500-M2.md).
-
-- [RDF4J 5.0.0-M3 SDK (zip)](http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/rdf4j/eclipse-rdf4j-5.0.0-M3-sdk.zip)<br/>
-  Full Eclipse RDF4J SDK, containing all libraries, RDF4J Server, Workbench, and Console applications, and Javadoc API.
-
-- [RDF4J 5.0.0-M3 onejar](http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/rdf4j/eclipse-rdf4j-5.0.0-M3-onejar.jar)<br/>
-  Single jar file for easy inclusion of the full RDF4J toolkit in your Java project.
-
-- [RDF4J artifacts](https://search.maven.org/search?q=org.eclipse.rdf4j) on the [Maven Central Repository](http://search.maven.org/)
+### RDF4J 4.3
 
-RDF4J 5.0.0-M3 is also available through maven. 
+- [RDF4J 4.3.12 SDK (zip)](http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/rdf4j/eclipse-rdf4j-4.3.12-sdk.zip)
+- [RDF4J 4.3.12 onejar](http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/rdf4j/eclipse-rdf4j-4.3.12-onejar.jar)
 
 
-## Older releases
-
 ### RDF4J 4.2
 
 - [RDF4J 4.2.4 SDK (zip)](http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/rdf4j/eclipse-rdf4j-4.2.4-sdk.zip)
 - [RDF4J 4.2.4 onejar](http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/rdf4j/eclipse-rdf4j-4.2.4-onejar.jar)
 
 
+
 ### RDF4J 4.1
 
 - [RDF4J 4.1.3 SDK (zip)](http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/rdf4j/eclipse-rdf4j-4.1.3-sdk.zip)

site/content/news/rdf4j-500.md

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+---
+title: "RDF4J 5.0.0 released"
+date: 2024-06-21T10:01:02+0200
+layout: "single"
+categories: ["news"]
+---
+<img class="news-image" align="right" src="/images/balloons.png" alt="balloons">
+We are very excited to announce the release of RDF4J 5.0.0!
+
+RDF4J 5.0.0 is a major release of the RDF4J framework with many new features and improvements. 
+
+Highlights include:
+- JSON-LD 1.1 support
+- Many improvements to FedX
+- Improved SHACL validation with support for [sh:closed](https://www.w3.org/TR/shacl/#ClosedConstraintComponent) and [pairwise](https://www.w3.org/TR/shacl/#core-components-property-pairs) validation
+- Stability and performance improvements to the LmdbStore
+- Upgrade of MapDB
+    - More queries with intermediary results are no longer limited by RAM/java heap but disk space available
+
+For more details, including instruction on how to upgrade, see the [release notes](/release-notes/5.0.0).
+
+### Links
+
+- [Download RDF4J](/download/)
+- [release notes](/release-notes/5.0.0)

site/content/release-notes/5.0.0.md

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 RDF4J 5.0.0 is a major release of the Eclipse RDF4J framework. Some highlights:
 
 - Replacement of the custom Iteration interface with Java Iterable/Iterator
-- Upgrade of MapDB
 - Replacement of old openrdf.org config vocabulary IRIS with new rdf4j.org vocabulary
+- Improved SHACL validation with support for [sh:closed](https://www.w3.org/TR/shacl/#ClosedConstraintComponent) and [pairwise](https://www.w3.org/TR/shacl/#core-components-property-pairs) validation
+- Upgrade of MapDB
+  - More queries with intermediary results are no longer limited by RAM/java heap but disk space available
+- Improve performance, query throughput and correctness in a transparent federation by refining various evaluation strategies (bind joins, property paths, limit pushing, ...)
+- JSON-LD 1.1 support
+- Implementation of merge join for future use in query evaluation
+- Stability and performance improvements to the LmdbStore
+- Improved spilling to disk for large transactions
 
 For a complete overview, see [all issues fixed in 5.0.0](https://github.com/eclipse/rdf4j/milestone/80?closed=1).
 
 ## Upgrade notes
 
-RDF4J 5.0.0 contains several [backward incompatible
-changes](https://github.com/eclipse/rdf4j/issues?q=is%3Aclosed+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22%E2%9B%94+Not+backwards+compatible%22+milestone%3A%225.0.0%22), including removal of several deprecated modules and classes.
+RDF4J 5.0.0 contains several [backward incompatible changes](https://github.com/eclipse/rdf4j/issues?q=is%3Aclosed+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22%E2%9B%94+Not+backwards+compatible%22+milestone%3A%225.0.0%22), including removal of several deprecated modules and classes.
 
 ### Configuration vocabulary upgrade