Release Notes for Apache Derby 10.15.2.0

The most up to date information about Derby releases can be found on the Derby download page.

Apache Derby is a pure Java relational database engine using standard SQL and JDBC as its APIs. More information about Derby can be found on the Apache web site. Derby functionality includes:

Embedded engine with JDBC drivers
Network Server
Network client JDBC drivers
Command line tools: ij (SQL scripting), dblook (schema dump) and sysinfo (system info)

The 10.15 release family supports the following Java and JDBC versions:

Java SE 9 and higher with JDBC 4.2.

New Features

Bug Fixes

The following issues are addressed by Derby release 10.15.2.0. These issues are not addressed in the preceding 10.15.1.3 release.

Issue Id	Description
DERBY-7038	Upgrade ant version and re-write javadoc build targets to use improved <javadoc>task
DERBY-7040	Add dependency stanzas to maven poms
DERBY-7041	null pointer exception when creating view based on other views
DERBY-7046	NoClassDefFoundError on java -jar derbynet.jar
DERBY-7050	In build.xml of derby root there's a vestigial target
DERBY-7052	Reordering and (mildly) reorganizing build.xml Ant targets around buildsource
DERBY-7053	Further top build.xml streamlining
DERBY-7057	Unreferenced failing target in main build

Issues

Build Environment

Derby release 10.15.2.0 was built using the following environment:

Branch - Source code came from the 10.15 branch.
Machine - Mac OSX 10.11.6.
Ant - Apache Ant(TM) version 1.10.2 compiled on February 3 2018.
Compiler - All classes were compiled by the javac from OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 18.9 (build 11+28, mixed mode).

Verifying Releases

It is essential that you verify the integrity of the downloaded files using the PGP and SHA-512 signatures. SHA-512 verification ensures the file was not corrupted during the download process. PGP verification ensures that the file came from a certain person.

The PGP signatures can be verified using PGP or GPG. First download the Apache Derby KEYS as well as the asc signature file for the particular distribution. It is important that you get these files from the ultimate trusted source - the main ASF distribution site, rather than from a mirror. Then verify the signatures using ...

% pgpk -a KEYS
% pgpv db-derby-X.Y.tar.gz.asc

or

% pgp -ka KEYS
% pgp db-derby-X.Y.tar.gz.asc

or

% gpg --import KEYS
% gpg --verify db-derby-X.Y.tar.gz.asc

To verify the SHA-512 checksums on the files, you need to use a platform-specific program. On Mac OSX, this program is called shasum, on Linux it is called sha512sum, and on Windows it is called CertUtil.