Issues

• [BUG] Range-indexed predicate returns 0 hits on an unindexed collection after the same predicate used the index

  bug
  eXist-db/exist#6846 · Filter by author joewiz opened on Oct 15, 2026

• BrokerPoolService: services cannot quiesce before the pool leaves its operational state

  eXist-db/exist#6843 · Filter by author duncdrum opened on Oct 14, 2026

• [BUG] Failed second instance deletes the running instance's dbx_dir.lck; launcher-started server outlives app quit

  eXist-db/exist#6841 · Filter by author line-o opened on Oct 14, 2026

• Failed store skips closeDocument(): the next document shares the failed document's DOM page and is lost when it is replaced

  bug
  eXist-db/exist#6836 · Filter by author duncdrum opened on Oct 12, 2026

• A numeric predicate that depends on the context item selects by its values, not by position: (3, 2, 1)[.] returns (3, 2, 1)

  xquery
  eXist-db/exist#6832 · Filter by author daliboris opened on Oct 11, 2026

• Filter expression on a parenthesized expression gives wrong results for a stored node evaluated relative to the context item

  eXist-db/exist#6831 · Filter by author daliboris opened on Oct 11, 2026
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• BrokerPoolServiceTest.backgroundJobsShutdownCleanly fails about 9 % of the time with "BrokerPool is not operational"

  eXist-db/exist#6830 · Filter by author duncdrum opened on Oct 11, 2026
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• LocationStep: can a result computed during a concurrent update stay cached?

  eXist-db/exist#6829 · Filter by author duncdrum opened on Oct 11, 2026

• Lucene field/facet expressions with a predicate on a range-indexed attribute index nothing (7.0.0-SNAPSHOT)

  eXist-db/exist#6826 · Filter by author daliboris opened on Oct 11, 2026
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• REST serves text, html, xhtml and adaptive output as application/xml unless the query declares a media type

  eXist-db/exist#6822 · Filter by author joewiz opened on Oct 9, 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

• 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
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• 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
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• 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 · eXist-7.0.0
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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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• 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