The Apache Derby development community is pleased to announce its first release after graduating from the Apache Incubator, Apache Derby 10.1.1.0. Apache Derby is now a subproject of the Apache DB project. You can find Derby at its new home on the web at:
http://db.apache.org/derby/ Apache Derby 10.1.1.0 can be downloaded from the following page: http://db.apache.org/derby/releases/release-10.1.1.0.html Derby is a pure Java, standards-based relational database engine. Derby aims to be an easy to use solution for data management for software developers with zero administration for end users. This release includes a new open source network client driver, as well as a number of other new features and enhancements: * Support for J2ME/CDC/Foundation with JSR-169 JDBC subset * Online compress functionality for reclaiming disk space during operation * XA support for Network Server * Increased identifier lengths to 128 characters for all identifiers * Added SQL: INTERSECT and EXCEPT * Added SQL: SYNONYM * JDBC Updatable Result Sets * ORDER by expressions * Allow insertions into an identity column * Support for explicit Java method signature in function and procedure definitions See the CHANGES file in the distributions for a full list of other changes.
