H2 Console: opening a MS SQL Server database is now faster. Also, listing the database meta data sometimes resulted in an exception.

MVCC: the probability of lock timeouts is now lower if multiple threads try to update the same rows.

Some people reported NullPointerException in FileObjectDiskMapped. The most likely explanation is that multiple threads access the same object at the same time. Therefore, the public methods in this class are now synchronized.

MVCC: the probability of lock timeouts is now lower if multiple threads try to update the same rows.

Building only the documentation (without compiling all classes) didn't work, specially: ./build.sh clean javadocImpl.

The pseudo-column "_ROWID_" now supports insert, update, and merge (only enabled for version 1.3.x).

The pseudo-column "_ROWID_" now supports insert, update, and merge (only enabled for version 1.3.x).

The pseudo-column "_ROWID_" now supports insert, update, and merge (only enabled for version 1.3.x).

The pseudo-column "_ROWID_" now supports insert, update, and merge (only enabled for version 1.3.x).

The new CSV option feature introduced in version 1.3.150 didn't support spaces. Now the escape mechanism is changed to support it.

Improved error detection when starting a server with invalid arguments, such as "-tcpPort=9091" or "-tcpPort 9091" (as one parameter) instead of "-tcpPort", "9091".

The function JAVADECODE ignored characters after a non-escaped double quote. This is no longer the case.

Improved error detection when starting a server with invalid arguments, such as "-tcpPort=9091" or "-tcpPort 9091" (as one parameter) instead of "-tcpPort", "9091".

Server: it was possible to open a database outside of the base URL (if one was set). The test case was broken.

New database setting DEFAULT_CONNECTION (disabled by default) to support DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:default:connection"). Please note the Oracle JDBC driver will try to resolve this database URL if it is loaded before the H2 driver.