CSV tool: new feature to preserve the case sensitivity of column names (option caseSensitiveColumnNames).

Trying to convert a VARCHAR to UUID will now fail if the text contains a character that is not a hex digit, '-', or not a whitespace.

ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN no longer copies the data for widening conversions (for example if only the precision was increased) unless necessary.

Multi-threaded kernel: concurrently running an online backup and updating the database resulted in a broken (transactionally incorrect) backup file in some cases.

Multi-threaded kernel: concurrently running an online backup and updating the database resulted in a broken (transactionally incorrect) backup file in some cases.

add column type STRING_IGNORECASE to the kinds of columns we can change the length of without needing to copy the table

The database file locking mechanism "FS" (;FILE_LOCK=FS) did not work on Linux since version 1.3.161.

The script created by SCRIPT DROP did not always work if multiple views existed that depend on each other.

Sequences: the functions NEXTVAL and CURRVAL did not work as expected when using quoted, mixed case sequence names.

MathUtils.getSecureRandom could log a warning to System.err in case the /dev/random is very slow, and the System.getProperties().toString() returned a string larger than 64 KB.