A steady number of releases occurred throughout 2004, including version 1.0.5 and 1.1 pre-release.

It was renamed to Mulgara as Northrop Grumman owned the Kowari trademark.

The legal cloud surrounding Kowari was eventually resolved,[10] one of the outcomes was the adoption of the Open Software License 3.0[permanent dead link‍][citation needed].

Mulgara models hold metadata in the form of short subject-predicate-object statements, much like the W3C's Resource Description Framework (RDF) standard.

Metadata may be imported into or exported from Mulgara in RDF or Notation 3 form.