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10.4 Release Summary
Derby 10.4 will be a feature release and it will fix many bugs.
Release Manager |
Dyre Tjeldvoll |
Feature freeze |
2008-03-07 |
Creating of 10.4 branch |
2008-03-10 |
Beta build (10.4.1.0) |
2008-03-14 |
Release Candidate (10.4.1.1) |
2008-04-06 |
Sanity Testing and Voting (Blocker DERBY-3347) |
2008-04-(06-10) |
Release Candidate (10.4.1.2) |
2008-04-14 |
Sanity Testing and Voting (Blocker DERBY-3316) |
2008-04-(14-21) |
Release Candidate (10.4.1.3) |
2008-04-16 |
Sanity Testing and Voting |
2008-04-(16-23) |
2008-04-23 |
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2008-04-26 |
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Target Release Date |
2008-04-28 |
10.4 Branch Information
Revision |
Event |
10.4 source branch created (from rev 635183) |
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10.4 doc branch created (from rev 635183) |
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trunk bumped to 10.5 |
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10.4 bumped to 10.4.1.0 beta |
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10.4 bumped to 10.4.1.1 |
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10.4 bumped to 10.4.1.2 |
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10.4 bumped to 10.4.1.3 |
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10.4 bumped to 10.4.1.4 |
10.4 Beta Builds and Release Candidates
Build (download) |
Date |
Revision |
Comment |
10.4.1.0 (beta) |
2008-03-14 |
CHANGES is broken, and release notes are unfinished. SQLState doc is included but has not been checked in. |
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10.4.1.1 (RC) |
2008-04-06 |
Voting canceled. |
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10.4.1.2 (RC2) |
2008-04-14 |
Voting canceled. |
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10.4.1.3 (RC3) |
2008-04-16 |
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2008-04-26 |
Try it out! |
Thanks to Manjula Kutty for providing the Eclipse plugin (should also be available in the download directories).
10.4 Testing
Testing details can be found on the following pages:
TenFourBuddyTesting (See the Features section for links to feature descriptions)
10.4 Bugfixing
Bugs that could be candidates for 10.4, ranked according to various criteria:
HighValueFixCandidates 
from the 10.3 release
Blocker and Critical ![/!\](/wiki/modernized/img/alert.png "/!\"){kind=small}
(priority)
Blocker and Urgent 
(urgency)
10.4 Features
Feature numbers are found in the SQL 2003 standard and are mapped to Derby in SQLvsDerbyFeatures.
Feature |
Description |
Associated JIRAs |
Status |
SQL Roles |
Most of feature T331 and parts of T332 |
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System privileges |
Restrict who can shutdown engines and create databases |
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SQL OLAP functionality |
ROW_NUMBER function with empty window specification |
Complete for this release |
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Unique constraints on nullable columns |
Feature T591 |
Complete |
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Basic replication |
Asynchronous replication with manual fail-over. See ReplicationWriteup |
Complete |
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VTI |
Table Functions |
Complete |
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JMX monitoring and management interface |
Java Management Extensions (JMX) for Derby, allowing local and remote monitoring and management of a running Derby system (this release includes a basic set of MBeans - it is expected that more JMX functionality will be added in later releases). |
Complete (for this release) |
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SQL bracketed comments (/*..*/) |
Feature T351 |
Complete |
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ij continuation marker |
interactive ij shows > prompt until ; |
Complete |
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Client JDBC statement cache |
A JDBC statement object cache in the client driver. |
Complete |
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Client Session Data Caching |
Cache the isolation level and the current schema in the client driver. See Derby3192Writeup |
Complete |
10.4 Non-functional Improvements
Area |
Description |
Associated JIRAs |
Status |
Performance |
Implement a new multi-threaded buffer manager to get better scalability on machines with multiple CPUs or multiple cores. |
Complete |
10.4 Relase Notes and Fixed Bugs List
Here are links to the Jira Filters that will be used:
Jira Filter |
Issue types |
Fix Versions |
Components |
Resolution |
Any |
10.4.0.0, 10.4.1.0 |
Any |
Fixed (+Existing application impact or Release note needed) |
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Bug, Improvement, Wish |
10.4.0.0, 10.4.1.0 |
All except Build tools, Newcomer, Regression test failure, Test, Website |
Fixed |
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Any |
10.4.0.0, 10.4.1.0 |
Any |
Fixed |
Derby 10.4 Fixed Bugs is used for the release notes. Derby 10.4 Changes is used for CHANGES.html