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03 August 2005 - Apache Derby 10.1.1.0 Released

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.cgi

Apache 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.

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-- The Apache Derby Project