VERSION 7.8 (February 12, 2014)

 GUI
 - new project view for organizing and opening project files
 - realtime search of project files and contents
 - various new editor shortcuts and code completions, code formatting

 UPDATES
 - improved performance of delete and insert operations
 - faster in-place value updates
 - 'update': convenience keyword for transform expressions

 XQUERY OPTIMIZATIONS
 - XQuery functions are now inlined and further optimized
 - closure optimizations, better static typing
 - improved detection and rewriting of tail calls
 - faster processing of (sub)sequences

 XQUERY MODULES
 - JSON and CSV Module: updated and enhanced conversion rules
 - Unit Module: enhanced test report output
 - Map Module: map:serialize added; syntax aligned with latest spec.
 - File Module: aligned with changes in EXPath spec.
 - XQuery Module: xquery:evaluate (operates on opened databases)
 - Full-Text Module: ft:contains added, ft:search: more options
 - EXPath Binary Module added
 - Java modules: support for locking annotations

 API
 - New options: INLINELIMIT, TAILCALLS, DEFAULTDB, RUNQUERY
 - New command-line flag: -R only parse query
 - Russian translation added (thanks to Oleksandr Shpak!)
 - Spanish translation added (thanks to Carlos Marcos!)