The RDFox Console has been redesigned to improve usability (RD-1755).

Added an EXPERIMENTAL feature to track changes to a knowledge graph known as 'delta queries' (RD-1744). See Section 11.7.

Added support for upgrading persistent servers to the persistence format of the current RDFox version (RD-1868). See Section 13.1.2. The upgrade feature is currently unable to upgrade data stores that have had a data source registered since the most recent snapshot. This can be worked around by deregistering all data sources and then compacting in the lower RDFox version, before attempting the upgrade.

Compaction now automatically recovers disk space in all cases (RD-1844). The delete-redundant-files parameter of the operation has been removed.

Roles can now be created without passwords (RD-1815). See Section 16.18 for details of the APIs for creating roles and Section 15.2.38 for how to create roles in the RDFox shell.

Improved the automatic management of database connections in PostgreSQL and ODBC data sources (RD-1873).

Attempting to bring a data store offline now returns an enum, indicating whether the operation was successful, the data store was already offline, or that the data store was in use and could not be brought offline (RD-1773).

The server directories of persistent servers must now always be initialized before a server can be started. In versions 7.0 and 7.1, explicit initialization was only required for servers managed using the RDFox executable but now servers managed via RDFox's Java API must also be initialized. As part of this change, the ConnectionFactory class from the tech.oxfordsemantic.jrdfox.client package has been replaced by the new RDFoxServer class which exposes methods to support analyzing, initializing, starting, and stopping RDFox servers. See Section 16.1.

The Java API method getVersion() has been replaced with getRDFoxVersion(), and the method getGitSHA() has been replaced with getRDFoxGitSHA(). This change was made to avoid confusion with the newly introduced getServerVersion() method in the ServerConnection .

The following server parameters renames have been applied:

file-system-poll-interval -> persistence.file-system-poll-interval

license-content -> license.content

license-file -> license.file

notifications-address -> persistence.notifications-address

persistence.encryption-algorithm -> persistence.encryption.algorithm

persistence.encryption-key -> persistence.encryption.key

The role-manager option for the authentication-managers server parameter has been renamed to role-name+password.

The lowest supported version of macOS has been increased from 10.14 to 10.15.

The base layer for the official Docker images has been updated from Ubuntu 22.04 to Ubuntu 24.04.

The mechanism for loading console extensions, such as faceted search has been retired (RD-1755).

Fixed a flaw in access control where properties of a resource that would not be accessible to an agent trying to read the resource directly were returned to the agent when listing all resources of that type (RD-1799). This affected data stores, data sources, and tuple tables. List operations for these resources will now return the names of all items, but additional properties will only be returned for those individuals where the agent holds read privileges.

Fixed an issue with parameter handling in the importaxioms shell command (RD-1801).

Fixed an issue with the import, importaxioms, and info shell commands where the provided named graph was not being resolved against the base IRI (RD-1790).

Fixed an issue with the reasoning profiler where rule deletion may lead to a crash (RD-1782).

Fixes to the executable's init mode to ensure that:

the process either succeeds or leaves the filesystem unchanged (RD-1792)

errors returned by any included shell commands cause the process to return a non-zero exit code (RD-1802).

Addressed issues in the reasoning profiler:

Fixed a bug where printing intermediate logs could cause a crash (RD-1812).

Corrected the miss-ordering of plans (RD-1852).

Fixed a bug where every role was counted as being a member of itself, allowing the roles registered as externally authenticatable or grantable to be passed directly by the identity provider (RD-1921).