Upgrading JFact to 5.0.1 allows us to use a more recent reasoner, which appears to work faster for some phyloreferences and has better error reporting. It also upgrades the version of the OWL API we use from 1.2.4 to 5.0.4, which required some code changes for the new API.
Note that JFact 5.0.1 can't reason over the current Phyloref ontology; it should be able to do so once phyloref/phyloref-ontology#19 has been merged.
Upgrading JFact to 5.0.1 allows us to use a more recent reasoner, which appears to work faster for some phyloreferences and has better error reporting. It also upgrades the version of the OWL API we use from 1.2.4 to 5.0.4, which required some code changes for the new API.
Note that JFact 5.0.1 can't reason over the current Phyloref ontology; it should be able to do so once phyloref/phyloref-ontology#19 has been merged.