chore: 7.6.0 release prep (#3397)

* chore: 7.6.0 release prep

* chore: add to release notes

* chore: update changelog

Author: edmondchuc

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,26 @@
+## 2026-02-13 RELEASE 7.6.0
+
+This release introduces a new major feature: GraphDB integration via the Python GraphDB Client. Users can now manage GraphDB instances and perform administrative tasks directly from Python. As GraphDB also supports the RDF4J REST API, users may utilize the recently released RDF4J Client and Store with GraphDB instances. For more details, see the new RDFLib GraphDB documentation under the extras section of the [RDFLib documentation](https://rdflib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/).
+
+This release also includes a number of fixes to `Graph.cbd()` and Turtle-related serializers. Thanks to @mgberg and @lisat-dstg, the affected code is now more standards-compliant.
+
+At the request of users, the recently introduced CLI tool `sq` has been renamed to `sparqlquery` to avoid conflicts with existing well-known packages.
+
+Other maintenance tasks include updating all CI actions to the latest versions and adding a compatibility layer for pyparsing v3 to remove deprecation warnings.
+
+Pull requests merged:
+
+- chore: rename sq to sparqlquery by @edmondchuc in [#3396](https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/pull/3396)
+- ci: update actions to the latest versions + bump ruff by @edmondchuc in [#3395](https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/pull/3395)
+- fix: Dataset.add() perf issues by @edmondchuc in [#3394](https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/pull/3394)
+- docs: improve docs generation for the file in the `examples` to show … by @nicholascar in [#3393](https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/pull/3393)
+- docs: GraphDB Client by @edmondchuc in [#3383](https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/pull/3383)
+- feat: GraphDB Client by @edmondchuc in [#3372](https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/pull/3372)
+- Improve Graph.cbd by @mgberg in [#3367](https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/pull/3367)
+- fix serialiser makes invalid turtle curis by @lisat-dstg in [#3364](https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/pull/3364)
+- Use non-deprecated pyparsing methods by @rafguns in [#3362](https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/pull/3362)
+- chore: post 7.5.0 tasks by @edmondchuc in [#3336](https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/pull/3336)
+
 ## 2025-11-28 RELEASE 7.5.0
 
 This release introduces a new major feature to RDFLib: RDF4J Store integration and RDF4J Client. Users can use this to connect to RDF4J database servers through RDFLib's Graph and Dataset classes, as well as manage repositories and transactions using the RDF4J Client. A comprehensive user guide for the new RDF4J features is available under the extras section of the [RDFLib documentation](https://rdflib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/).

CITATION.cff

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ authors:
 - family-names: "Stuart"
   given-names: "Veyndan"
 title: "RDFLib"
-version: 7.5.0
-date-released: 2025-11-28
+version: 7.6.0
+date-released: 2026-02-13
 url: "https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib"
 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.6845245

LICENSE

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 BSD 3-Clause License
 
-Copyright (c) 2002-2025, RDFLib Team
+Copyright (c) 2002-2026, RDFLib Team
 All rights reserved.
 
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without

README.md

@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ Help with maintenance of all of the RDFLib family of packages is always welcome
 ## Versions & Releases
 
 * `main` branch in this repository is the current unstable release - version 8 alpha
+* `7.6.0` GraphDB Client, and many improvements and fixes. See changelog for details
 * `7.5.0` RDF4J Store integration, RDF4J Client, and other improvements. See changelog for details
 * `7.4.0` a few small fixes, add test matrix for active python versions, and move v7 documentation to MkDocs
 * `7.3.0` many fixes and usability improvements, particularly for the Dataset class. See changelog for details

mkdocs.yml

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ site_url: https://rdflib.readthedocs.org
 repo_name: RDFLib/rdflib
 repo_url: https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib
 edit_uri: "edit/main/docs/"
-copyright: Copyright © 2002 - 2025, RDFLib Team.
+copyright: Copyright © 2002 - 2026, RDFLib Team.
 
 # poetry run mkdocs serve -a localhost:8000
 

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "rdflib"
-version = "7.6.0-a0"
+version = "7.6.0"
 description = """RDFLib is a Python library for working with RDF, \
 a simple yet powerful language for representing information."""
 authors = ["Daniel 'eikeon' Krech <eikeon@eikeon.com>"]

rdflib/__init__.py

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 __docformat__ = "restructuredtext en"
 
 __version__: str = _DISTRIBUTION_METADATA["Version"]
-__date__ = "2025-11-28"
+__date__ = "2026-02-13"
 
 __all__ = [
     "URIRef",