H2 Console: webAllowOthers and webSSL were swapped if they didn't exist in the properties file. Issue 244.

After a crash, the database file did not always shrink because old transaction log pages were not removed from the file.

CAST: when converting a string to binary, it is hex encoded (every byte two characters); a hex string can be converted to a number by first converting it to binary.

When LOB objects are stored in the database (using the experimental setting h2.lobInDatabase), and using the MVCC mode, opening a database with uncommitted transactions could throw a NullPointerException.