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                          Commons DbUtils Package
                                Version 1.4
                               Release Notes


INTRODUCTION
============

This is a maintenance release with new features. New projects are encouraged to
use this release of dbutils. There is no urgency for existing projects to
upgrade.

IMPORTANT NOTES
================

BREAKING CHANGES:

 * NONE.

DEPENDENCIES
=============

Commons DbUtils 1.4 has not dependencies.

NEW FEATURES
=============

 * Asynchronous executor
       Added methods for asynchronous batch, query, and update calls.

BUGS FROM PREVIOUS RELEASE
===========================

 * [DBUTILS-65] Duplicate code introduced during Java 1.5 branch merge.
 * [DBUTILS-79] fillStatement doesn't complain when there are too few parameters.

IMPROVEMENTS OVER PREVIOUS RELEASE
===================================

 * [DBUTILS-78] Add asynchronous batch, query, and update calls.
 * [DBUTILS-75] efficient usage from findbugs

DEPRECATIONS
============

 * NONE

OTHER NOTES
============

 * NONE