The JDBC escape syntax {ts 'value'} did not interpret the value as a timestamp. The same for {d 'value'} (for date) and {t 'value'} (for time). Thanks to Lukas Eder for reporting the issue.

The statement "shutdown defrag" now compresses the database (with the MVStore). The MVStore now automatically shrinks the file in the background if there is no read or write activity. This might be a bit too aggressive; feedback is welcome!

Gives a better out of box experience for people with more powerful machines.

change default value of PAGE_SIZE from 2048 to 4096 to more closely match most filesystems block size.

MVStore: the store is now auto-compacted automatically up to some point, to avoid very large file sizes. This area is still work in progress.

Introduce a queue when doing table locking to prevent session starvation.

Fix bug in changing encrypted DB password that kept the file handle open when the wrong password was supplied. (test case from Jens Hohmuth).

and which servers that are available. (patch from  Nikolaj Fogh) 

If a database file in the PageStore file format exists, this file and this mode is now used, even if the database URL does not contain "MV_STORE=FALSE". If a MVStore file exists, it is used.

MVStore: the ObjectDataType comparison method was incorrect if one key was Serializable and the other was of a common class.

MVStore: unique indexes that were created later on did not work correctly if there were over 5000 rows in the table.

For Windows, database URLs of the form "jdbc:h2:/test" where considered relative and did not work unless the system property "h2.implicitRelativePath" was used.