</li><li>The documentation indexer does no longer index Japanese pages. If somebody knows how to split Japanese into words please post it.
</li><li>Oracle compatibility: SYSDATE now returns a timestamp. CHR(..) is now an alias for CHAR(..).
</li><li>After deleting data, empty space in the database files was not efficiently reused (but it was reused when opening the database). This has been fixed.
</li><li>About 230 bytes per database was leaked. This is a problem for applications opening and closing many thousand databases. The main problem: a shutdown hook was added but never removed. Fixed. In JDK 1.4, there is an additionally problem, see http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4197876. A workaround has been implemented.
</li><li>About 230 bytes per database was leaked. This is a problem for applications opening and closing many thousand databases. The main problem: a shutdown hook was added but never removed. Fixed.
In JDK 1.4, there is <ahref="http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4197876">an additionally problem</a>.
A workaround has been implemented.
</li><li>Optimization for COLUMN IN(.., NULL) if the column does not allow NULL values.
</li><li>Using spaces in column and table aliases was not supported when used inside a view or temporary view.
</li><li>The version (build) number is now included in the manifest file.