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.
