It has been 13 months and thus long overdue for a new release of Raptor my RDF parsing and serializing library – if it involves going between syntax and triples, Raptor can do it.

(My excuse for the long delay I was busy working on Rasqal which is also due a release. Plus it’s lovely living in California :) )

WARNING: FUTURE ABI and API CHANGES.
The next release of Raptor 1.4.x will include bug fixes only and no new features. New development will move to Raptor 2 where a planned ABI and API break will happen. There may be preview releases of Raptor 2 with 1.9.x numbering.

The changes were as follows:

• Many improvements to RSS tag soup (RSSes and Atom) parser and the RSS 1.0 and Atom serializers
• Several fixes and improvements to the N-Triples, RDFa and RDF/XML parsers and Turtle serializer
• Improved the use and configuration of static libxml functions for better compatibility
• Several Win32 portability fixes – Lou Sakey
• Many internal changes for upcoming Raptor V2 – primarily by Lauri Aalto
• Many other fixes and resilience improvements.
• Fixed reported issues: 0000259, 0000262, 0000263, 0000266, 0000269, 0000270, 0000276, 0000277, 0000287, 0000288, 0000289, 0000290, 0000293, 0000296, 0000299 and 0000303.

See the Raptor 1.4.19 Release Notes for the full details of the changes.

Flickcurl (C library to Flickr API) Version 1.12 is out with:

• Support for 2 new Flickr collections API calls: flickr.collections.getInfo and flickr.collections.getTree
• Support for 4 new general API calls: flickr.blogs.getServices, flickr.machinetags.getRecentValues, flickr.photos.comments.getRecentForContacts and flickr.places.getTopPlacesList
• Functions for generating flic.kr short URIs for photos
• Fix for bug with resetting curl during sequences of mixed read and write API calls. Thanks to Henning Spruth.
• flickcurl(1) utility support for new API calls.
• Several other minor improvements and fixes.

See the Release Notes for full details.

Get it at the Flickcurl home page (GPL2 / LGPL2 / Apache2.)