Connection.getAutoCommit() is now much faster, specially when using the server mode.

In some cases (specially when using a small cache size or a large database over 1 GB) for some operations like ALTER TABLE the data was written before the transaction log entries, which could cause a corrupt database if the process was killed during the ALTER TABLE operation.

The SCRIPT command and tool now uses the default file encoding for the system now instead of UTF-8 (as before).

The SCRIPT command and tool now uses the default file encoding for the system now instead of UTF-8 (as before).

When using the MULTI_THREADED option, concurrently reading from a database could throw an exception.

    that a full table scan is faster.

    that a full table scan is faster.

    that a full table scan is faster.

New system property h2.lobClientMaxSizeMemory to set the maximum size of a LOB object to keep in memory on the client side when using the server mode.

The jar files are now about 50 KB smaller. In the last few versions they contained superfluous classes.