Hi Rick, Looks good to me. Re rolling log files feature; I like how you refer to derby.log as the 'diagnostic' log (I'm used to thinking of it as the error message log, but you're right, it's more than that).
Thanks for herding this release... Myrna On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Rick Hillegas <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's what I have so far. Please help me improve this. I plan to announce > the release in the next day or two. > > Thanks, > -Rick > > -------------------------------- > > > The Apache Derby project is pleased to announce feature release 10.11.1.1. > > Apache Derby is a sub-project of the Apache DB project. Derby is a pure > Java relational database engine which conforms to the ISO/ANSI SQL and JDBC > standards. Derby aims to be easy for developers and end-users to work with. > > Derby 10.11.1.1 can be obtained from the Derby download site: > > http://db.apache.org/derby/derby_downloads.html. > > Derby 10.11.1.1 contains the following new features: > > * MERGE statement - MERGE is a single, join-driven statement which > INSERTs, UPDATEs, and DELETEs rows. > * Deferrable constraints - Constraint enforcement can now be deferred, > typically to the end of a transaction. > * WHEN clause in CREATE TRIGGER - An optional WHEN clause has been > added which determines which rows fire a trigger. > * Rolling log file - The Derby diagnostic log can now be split across > a sequence of files. > * Experimental Lucene support - Derby text columns can now be indexed > and queried via Apache Lucene. > * Simple case expression - The "simple" and "extended" syntax for CASE > expressions has been added. > * Better concurrency for identity columns - The concurrency of > identity columns has been boosted. > * New ij HoldForConnection command - A new ij command has been added > to change the default cursor holdability. > * Standard syntax for altering column nullability - Standard syntax > has been added for altering the nullability of columns. > > In addition, Derby 10.11.1.1 contains many bug, security, and > documentation fixes. > > Please try out this new release. > >
