Issues

• Stored query declaring output:method "json" now answers inside the REST result envelope (regression from #6749)

  eXist-db/exist#6815 · Filter by author wylovan opened on Oct 7, 2026

• [BUG] REST _xsl: the stylesheet's xsl:output method="html" is ignored (only the media type is used)

  eXist-db/exist#6813 · Filter by author duncdrum opened on Oct 7, 2026

• [BUG] Retrieving a stored document with the html output method emits CDATA sections into HTML elements

  eXist-db/exist#6810 · Filter by author duncdrum opened on Oct 7, 2026

• where not($x/p) filters out every item of a persistent for

  xquery
  Bug

  eXist-db/exist#6809 · Filter by author joewiz opened on Oct 7, 2026
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• LuceneIndex.commit() can clear needsCommit for a write it did not commit

  eXist-db/exist#6808 · Filter by author joewiz opened on Oct 7, 2026

• XQuery 4.0 regex: scope the automatic ;j more tightly, and let fn:matches and fn:analyze-string use it too

  eXist-db/exist#6807 · Filter by author joewiz opened on Oct 7, 2026

• Resource names with a literal '+' are decoded as a space in backup, export, the Java client and other places

  eXist-db/exist#6806 · Filter by author joewiz opened on Oct 7, 2026

• Tests that pass for another reason than they claim: setGid chmod test and mock verify calls that never run

  eXist-db/exist#6804 · Filter by author duncdrum opened on Oct 6, 2026
  

• [BUG] Range-index and path lookups over many documents 1.2–6x slower than 6.4.1 (7.0.0-SNAPSHOT)

  performance
  eXist-db/exist#6803 · Filter by author line-o opened on Oct 6, 2026

• XMLDBTests and LuceneTests cannot run their files in parallel: collection copy deadlock and rare wrong Lucene reads

  buginvestigateLucene
  eXist-db/exist#6800 · Filter by author duncdrum opened on Oct 6, 2026
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• [BUG] The storage Serializer ignores use-character-maps

  eXist-db/exist#6799 · Filter by author joewiz opened on Oct 5, 2026

• [BUG] Persistent node sets' NodeList.item() returns null for nodes that no longer exist

  eXist-db/exist#6798 · Filter by author joewiz opened on Oct 5, 2026

• CVE 2025-66516 in the Tika dependency: fix planned for v6.x?

  eXist-db/exist#6789 · Filter by author ricetrac opened on Sep 30, 2026
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• [BUG] Moving a document deadlocks with a concurrent collection() read

  eXist-db/exist#6774 · Filter by author joewiz opened on Sep 26, 2026

• treat as ignores the names in element(), attribute() and processing-instruction() tests, and raises XPTY0004 instead of XPDY0050

  eXist-db/exist#6772 · Filter by author joewiz opened on Sep 25, 2026

• declare copy-namespaces …, no-inherit: a copied element still reports its new parent's namespaces as in scope

  eXist-db/exist#6771 · Filter by author joewiz opened on Sep 25, 2026

• Optimizer rewrite silently fails for a filtered expression wrapped in a typed function argument (e.g. count($a[ft:query(...)]))

  eXist-db/exist#6759 · Filter by author duncdrum opened on Sep 24, 2026

• Lucene proximity queries: string syntax and XML <near> can disagree on hit count due to differing slop semantics

  Lucene
  eXist-db/exist#6757 · Filter by author duncdrum opened on Sep 24, 2026

• [BUG] REST: Content-Type is not derived from the serialization method, except for JSON

  REST API
  Bug

  eXist-db/exist#6751 · Filter by author joewiz opened on Sep 23, 2026 · eXist-7.0.0

• Remove debuggee extension

  deprecation
  Task

  eXist-db/exist#6737 · Filter by author duncdrum opened on Sep 22, 2026 · eXist-7.0.0

• XQTS workflow reports success when the test suite never ran

  bug
  eXist-db/exist#6734 · Filter by author joewiz opened on Sep 21, 2026

• Deprecations are not surfaced to users: calling a deprecated function produces no diagnostic

  deprecationdiscuss
  eXist-db/exist#6733 · Filter by author joewiz opened on Sep 21, 2026 · eXist-7.0.0
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• [BUG] An unrecognized exist:-namespace serialization parameter is silently ignored

  eXist-db/exist#6730 · Filter by author joewiz opened on Sep 20, 2026

• Replace ad hoc reflection for optional-extension wiring with a ServiceLoader SPI (RESTServer, Annotations)

  eXist-db/exist#6723 · Filter by author duncdrum opened on Sep 17, 2026

• [design] Where should the sibling/preceding/following duplicate-suppression state live? (two candidate fixes for #6690)

  eXist-db/exist#6700 · Filter by author joewiz opened on Sep 13, 2026
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