LiquiBase

The Liquibase team is proud to announce version 1.0. Liquibase is an open source (LGPL) java-based tool for managing database changes and refactorings. It has been under active development for over a year and supports many features including:

The Liquibase team is proud to announce version 1.0. Liquibase is an open source (LGPL) java-based tool for managing database changes and refactorings. It has been under active development for over a year and supports many features including:

While you can include all your change sets in one giant change log, there are many good reasons to split them up. While there are many ways to divide your change logs, the best strategy I have found is to create a change log per major java package that contains data access code. This approach has several advantages:

While you can include all your change sets in one giant change log, there are many good reasons to split them up. While there are many ways to divide your change logs, the best strategy I have found is to create a change log per major java package that contains data access code. This approach has several advantages:

When talking about how Liquibase works, I’m often asked “Why not just do a database diff to know what changes need to be applied to a new database?”

When talking about how Liquibase works, I’m often asked “Why not just do a database diff to know what changes need to be applied to a new database?”

Liquibase 1.0 RC2 has been released. Changes since RC2 are primarily minor bug fixes.

Liquibase 1.0 RC2 has been released. Changes since RC2 are primarily minor bug fixes.

Liquibase 1.0 RC1 has been released. Changes since 0.9.1 are primarily code refactoring to make sure it is a clean code base to work with post-1.0. The only new feature is a batch and shell script for easier running of the command line migrator. There were also the usual documentation improvements and bug fixes.

Liquibase 1.0 RC1 has been released. Changes since 0.9.1 are primarily code refactoring to make sure it is a clean code base to work with post-1.0. The only new feature is a batch and shell script for easier running of the command line migrator. There were also the usual documentation improvements and bug fixes.