19 April 2013  Saxon 9.5 is available (Saxon-HE, Saxon-PE, and Saxon-EE, on both Java and .NET platforms). See below for details.

28 February 2013  Saxon 9.4.0.7 is available (Saxon-HE, Saxon-PE, and Saxon-EE, on both Java and .NET platforms)

22 February 2013  Saxon-CE 1.1 is now available under an open source license.

Saxon 9.5

It's been a long time coming, but Saxon 9.5 is finally here.

There are hundreds of small changes — each one something that someone has been eagerly awaiting. But the headlines are:

• Complete and conformant support for XQuery 3.0 and XPath 3.0, now in the Candidate Recommendation phase.
• Many advances in XSLT 3.0 support (still a working draft), including more capability for streaming of large documents.
• In Saxon-EE, multi-threading "out-of-the-box" when processing multiple input files or when generating multiple output files.
• There are some very handy new extensions, including libraries (defined by the EXPath initiative) for handling of files and directories and ZIP archives, and a function for sending email notifications.

The documentation is now delivered using Saxon-CE, Saxonica's implementation of XSLT 2.0 running in the browser, and provides a good demonstration of how much is achievable: the client-side browsing code is written in almost pure XSLT 2.0, with only a few lines of Javascript to help with highlighting of search results. We don't claim to be the world's greatest graphic designers, but with average skills like ours, we think the technology allow you to achieve great results.

The current maintenance release is

You can download an evaluation copy of the software from here.

Saxon-EE and Saxon-PE licenses issued after will work with the current release. For those with earlier licenses, simply enter the existing license number when you reorder, and we will refund its residual value, based on when it was purchased.

Saxon Client Edition 1.1

Saxon Client Edition achieved its first production release, 1.0, in June 2012, marking the culmination of effort in porting and then wrapping the Saxon XSLT 2.0 processor core into a product fit and ready for the browser, in the era of HTML5 and the dynamic web.

Saxon-CE features interactive event-driven templates and works in any modern browser with JavaScript enabled - including mobile devices.

In February 2013 Saxonica announced that the product would be made open-source, in the hope that this would enable the technology to become mainstream, allowing every developer to produce the same kind of quality interactive applications that pioneer users of the 1.0 release have shown to be possible.

Saxon-CE 1.1 Information