Dear list, we have just released a new maintenance release of BaseX, which contains the following features and updates: FULL TEXT - Stemming support for Japanese text corpora (thanks to Toshio HIRAI!) STARTUP - Updated start scripts (thanks to Ralf Jung!) - System property "org.basex.path" added to specify project's home directory (thanks to malamut2!) XQUERY - Numerous minor XQuery 3.0 enhancements and fixes - Fix for db:optimize() calls (thanks to Martin Hillert!) STORAGE - Fix to retain newly introduced namespaces (thanks to Laurent Chevalier!) USERS - Default privileges for new users set to "none" (thanks to Pascal Heus!) REST - query base URI for evaluated queries is now $HTTPPATH (thanks to Florent Georges!) We recommend all of you to switch to the latest version.. Have fun, Christian BaseX Team