This is the home for open-source versions of the Saxon XSLT 3.0, XQuery 3.1, and XPath 3.1 processor for Java and .NET platforms which has been maintained and upgraded continuously since 1999. See also the Saxonica home page and the Saxonica issue tracker for bug trackers and discussion forums.
Saxon-HE is an open-source product available under the Mozilla Public License version 2.0.
This repository contains all releases for the current actively maintained versions of Saxon-HE: 10, 11, and 12.
The latest production release of Saxon-HE is 12.5.
Saxon 12 is currently considered the most stable and reliable release.
You can download any of the current releases from the releases area on this repository.
Earlier releases of Saxon-HE 10, 11, and 12 are also available from
this repository, but aren’t packaged as releases. To download ZIP
files from GitHub, navigate to the page for the ZIP file. In some browsers,
there’s an obvious “Download” button, on others, you have to
choose
the “Download raw file”
(
)
link on the right hand side of the page.
An archive of even older releases and projects of perhaps historical interest is preserved in the Saxon-Archive repository.