I was wondering if there were any big known issues out there. After upgrading the jar in my project, everything compiled. I didn’t really see anything in the release notes that made me shudder, but I want to double check.
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I was wondering if there were any big known issues out there. After upgrading the jar in my project, everything compiled. I didn’t really see anything in the release notes that made me shudder, but I want to double check.
Actually, after near than 3 years of inactivity (version 1.2.2 has been release the 2007-04-04), Apache Commons DBCP has finally been taken out of dormancy and versions 1.3 and 1.4 have been released the 2010-02-14. From the release notes:
See the change log for 1.4 for an exhaustive list of changes but globally, this release is really a good thing, DBCP has/had some nasty bugs that really need to be fixed.
Regarding compatibility, the general policy for Commons component is to be upward compatible, which is somehow why two versions were released (see this discussion). My point is that nothing should break by upgrading to 1.4 or 1.3. But keep in mind that 1.4 won’t be usable with older JVMs.