Apache Software Foundation is announcing that Apache Jena with version number 3.0.0 is already available to download.

What is Apache Jena ?

Apache Jena is A framework for building semantic Java Web applications, with support for many technologies like RDF, SPARQL, TDB, Linked Data and more . Apache Jena can be utilized to create and run semantic Web applications, linked-data apps, Web-based tools, various types of websites, and even and modern Web servers.Jena is a collection of tools ranging from an RDF API, to a TDB persistent data store, and up to a SPARQL-compliant engine.On top of these there's support for the Web Ontology Language (also known as OWL) and a basic inference API.Most of the Jena framework revolves around RDF, so you'd better be comfortable with the notion of working with it.Usage instructions and in-depth documentation is included with the download package. This is changelog for Apache Jena version 3.0.0 :

• RETE patch for faster forward rule execution.
• Improved Fuseki service startup script.
• Improve ParameterizedSparqlString to prevent SPARQL injection attacks.
• Query timeouts (including in Fuseki).

You can read the complete changelog and also download this latest version on their homepage: jena.apache.org