Release date of next version of H2? Maybe version 2.x?

[t603]

Hello, 

may I ask You, if there are any plans to release next version of H2 anytime soon? There should be a couple of interesting new features and bug fixes, so I am eager to know, if we can expect release at least this year. The last version is almost two years old, if I am right. 

Thank You, Stepan

[Andreas Reichel]

Greetings.

The situation seems to be difficult: H2 is written by volunteers in their precious spare time and at the same time is a software which depends on a lot of knowledge and expertise.

Right now, the main developers do not seem to be able to invest much time. Even sponsoring offers did not catch -- end we can only respect that (and so I do!).

At the same time, 1.4.200 is quite old now and a lot of corrections and improvements have been provided since. There are a lot of reports about corruption with 1.4.200 (and I have observed those myself) and based on the age, nobody will want to dig into that anymore because the current development tree has sorted very most of such issues and seems to run very stable (at least to me).

So, with all respect to the developers, from a practical perspective of an end-user , oversimplified it looks like that:

A release does not seem to happen soon and you have the choice between an unsupported "stable" 1.4.200 release, which has a lot of short comings (compared to the development version) and known corruption problems.

Or you could use the latest GIT Snapshot, which has countless improvements, works much more stable (at least for me) and you will get help/answers when you experience any problem. The caveat is: you will constantly migrate the H2 Databases whenever using a newer H2 Snapshot.

Cheers

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