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+title: "RDF4J 6.0.0 Milestone 1"
+date: 2026-04-24T14:38:22+0200
+layout: "single"
+categories: ["news"]
+---
+Milestone number 1 of the upcoming 6.0.0 release of RDF4J is now available for download.
+
+RDF4J 6.0.0 is a major release focusing on dependency upgrades, lmdb improvements and http client improvements.
+
+Please note that RDF4J 6.0.0-M1 requires Java 25.
+
+This milestone build is not yet feature-complete, but we are putting it out to receive early feedback on all the improvements we have put in.
+
+<!--more-->
+
+ - [issues fixed in 6.0.0 Milestone 1](https://github.com/eclipse/rdf4j/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3AM1+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3A6.0.0)
+ - [issues planned for 6.0.0](https://github.com/eclipse/rdf4j/milestone/128)
+
+### Links
+
+- [Download RDF4J](/download/)
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