We’re happy to announce the release of Pellet 2.0, the first OWL 2 DL reasoner available commercially. Pellet 2.0 is available for use in open source projects under the AGPL v.3 license; for commercial usage, alternative license terms are available.
During the past 13 months, we closed 199 tickets as part of the 2.0 release candidate cycle, including numerous enhancements and bug fixes. Please see CHANGES.txt in the distribution for a complete change log; some highlights include:
- full OWL 2 support (modulo a few bugs that will be fixed in the 2.1 release)
- supports domain & range axioms, class expressions, qualified cardinality restrictions, literal constants, annotations, and nested class expressions in SPARQL queries
- support for all SWRL builtins, including previously missing builtins (substring, tokenize, and optional precision parameters for roundHalfToEven)
- optimized support for OWL 2 EL reasoning; OWL 2 EL reasoner is autoselected based on data input
- supports automated ontology module extraction
- supports incremental classification
- supports fine-grained inference extraction
- enhanced SWRL rules performance
- OWLAPI v3 support
- lots of improvements, cleanups to Pellet’s command line tools
- updated to work with Jena 2.6.2—Pellet is the only DL reasoner available for Jena
- supports explanations via Jena
- support autoselecting best SPARQL query engine based on input query
- user-defined timeouts for reasoning
- switch to dual license model to support commercial and open source projects
This release marks a change in Pellet development process: starting with 2.1, Pellet will be released according to a time-based development cycle. We will do four quarterly releases per year. We will make point releases between the quarterly releases, as necessary, to fix critical bugs only. Thus, the release schedule for the 2.x series will be 29 March 2010, 28 June 2010, 27 September 2010, 20 December 2010.
We believe this new development and release process will further accelerate the commercialization of Pellet, with no undue impact on its utility for either research or other non-commercial applications.
Finally, with the release of Pellet 2.0, we will no longer support previous versions via the pellet-users mailing list.
