History of Changes

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From Release 1.3 onward, the authoritative changelog is CHANGELOG.md in the source repository.

Version 1.4 (2026-08-14)

Scriptella 1.4 is a maintenance and modernization release focused on making the project easier to build, run, and maintain on current Java platforms while preserving its lightweight ETL model and existing scripting behavior.

Changes to the Code Base

• Java 17 is the build and runtime baseline; Maven and Ant compile with release=17 (class-file major version 61). Scriptella 1.3 remains for Java 8.
• The optional JSR-223 script driver now uses official Mozilla Rhino 1.9.1 when a JavaScript engine is needed. JavaScript is not required for ordinary ETL work.
• Janino 3.1.12, JavaMail com.sun.mail:javax.mail:1.6.2, Activation 1.1.1, Ant 1.10.17, and Commons Logging 1.2. Commons JEXL stays on 2.0.1 for 1.4.
• Velocity 1.7 with explicit Commons Collections 3.2.2 and Commons Lang 2.6 dependencies; the bundled velocity-dep.jar fat JAR was removed.
• H2 2.4.240 is the bundled database used by tests and examples.
• Removed the ODBC / JDBC-ODBC bridge adapter (driver="odbc") and the samples/odbc example. The JDK bridge has not existed since Java 8.
• Removed HSQLDB 1.8 as the bundled test and sample database, including its adapter, committed JAR, and provider-specific CSV sample.

Upgrade notes

• JDK 17 is the minimum runtime and build JDK; artifacts use Java 17 bytecode. Runtime and Maven builds were tested on Temurin 17 and 21. Release packaging uses JDK 17, Ant 1.10.17, and DTDDoc 1.1.0.
• There is no Scriptella odbc driver in 1.4. Remain on Scriptella 1.3 if you still depend on that adapter, or use a maintained third-party JDBC driver.
• Bundled examples that previously created HSQLDB file databases now create H2 databases. Existing HSQLDB database files are not converted automatically.

Version 1.3 (2026-07-17)

Release 1.3 establishes a maintainable Java 8 baseline while preserving the existing Maven modules, Ant-built all-in-one JAR, and distribution archives.

Changes to the Code Base

• Shell-command driver for executing external commands as Scriptella scripts or queries (#32).
• Regression coverage for DTD validation of <include> inside <script> (#29). The maintained DTD was already correct.
• Regression coverage confirming that JDBC ID result columns take precedence over a same-named global property (#20). The reported defect was not reproducible on the supported Java 8/HSQLDB path.
• Set Java 8 as the required runtime baseline and Maven bytecode target.
• Switch JavaScript execution from Nashorn-specific behavior to Rhino through a JSR 223 adapter (#2). Prefer language=rhino in JavaScript ETL.
• Restore reproducible Maven module builds and tests with Maven 3.6 or newer.
• Preserve the Ant 1.10.17 workflow for the all-in-one JAR and binary, source, and examples ZIP archives; Ant test failures now fail the build.
• Bundle the Rhino engine and JSR 223 adapter, with license material, so Ant builds work from a fresh checkout.
• Remove Apache Forrest website generation from the project build while retaining Javadoc and DTD documentation generation.
• Migrate Maven publication from the retired OSSRH service to the Sonatype Central Publisher Portal.
• Reconcile Maven and standalone Velocity at 1.6.2; align examples JavaMail/Activation with Maven-managed versions; add explicit distribution license material.
• Replace the Forrest-generated public website with directly maintained HTML5 and CSS, preserving principal public URLs and useful deep links.

Upgrade notes

• Java 8 is the supported baseline. Newer runtimes are not part of the 1.3 compatibility promise.
• JavaScript ETL should explicitly select language=rhino. Scripts that depend on Nashorn-specific behavior should be tested before upgrading.
• The shell driver runs operating-system commands with the permissions of the Scriptella process; review command input and deployment permissions before enabling it in untrusted workflows.
• Maven consumers continue to use the org.scriptella group ID introduced in 1.2. Module layout and artifact IDs are unchanged.

Version 1.2 (2019-10-03)

Changes to the Code Base

• [ADD] Switched Maven groupId to org.scriptella - Committed by ejboy.
• [ADD] Upgraded Janino driver to 3.1.0 - Committed by ejboy.

Contributors to this release

We thank the following people for their contributions to this release.

This is a list of all people who participated as committers:
Fyodor Kupolov (ejboy).

Release 1.2 was the last release whose changelog was maintained in the legacy Apache Forrest format. See status.xml for the original.

Version 1.1 (2012-12-28)

Changes to the Code Base

• JEXL 2.0 Support - Committed by ejboy. See Issue 12161.
• Flexible parsing/formatting rules for text/csv drivers - Committed by ejboy. See Issue 52167.
• JDBC: Add support for queries in batch-mode - Committed by ejboy. See Issue 14268.
• Detect missing query.next call - Committed by ejboy. See Issue 12257.
• Add support for batch execution. - Committed by ejboy. See Issue 7157.
• StringIndexOutOfBoundsException when parsing SQL statements with ternary expressions - Committed by ejboy. See Issue 52891.
• Detect missing query.next call in queries. - Committed by ejboy. See Issue 12257.

Contributors to this release

We thank the following people for their contributions to this release.

This is a list of all people who participated as committers:
Fyodor Kupolov (ejboy).

Version 1.0 (2010-05-05)

Changes to the Code Base

• [ADD] CUBRID Database driver - Committed by ejboy.
• [ADD] nostat command line option to suppress statistics collecting - Committed by ejboy.
• [FIX] Fixed ArrayIndexOutOfBounds thrown when lazy-initialization fails for connection - Committed by ejboy.
• [FIX] Wrong alias for PostgreSQL for auto driver - Committed by volk.
• [FIX] db2 driver is not automatically resolved - Committed by ejboy.
• [FIX] Cannot load class when scriptella is packaged in an EAR file in JBoss - Committed by ejboy.
• [FIX] Cannot Write to HTTP URL - Committed by ejboy.
• [FIX] Use null_string to expand $variable when it has null value. CSV, text driver - Committed by ejboy.
• [UPDATE] Fix FindBugs issues - Committed by ejboy.
• [UPDATE] Upgrade dependencies: hsqldb 1.8.0.10, velocity 1.6.2, janino 2.5.15, h2 1.1.116 - Committed by ejboy.

Contributors to this release

We thank the following people for their contributions to this release.

This is a list of all people who participated as committers:
Fyodor Kupolov (ejboy), Kirill Volgin (volk).

Version 1.0 RC (2008-04-02)

Changes to the Code Base

• [ADD] odbc alias for JDBC-ODBC bridge driver - Committed by ejboy.
• [ADD] Support for SQLSheet JDBC driver to work with Excel files - Committed by volk.
• [ADD] IBM AS/400 Driver - Committed by volk.
• [ADD] etl.text utility methods to format strings - Committed by ejboy.
• [ADD] Execute multiple ETL files in Spring - Committed by ejboy.
• [ADD] Add "exclude=true/false" attribute for dialect tag - Committed by ejboy.
• [FIX] Error working with blobs - Committed by ejboy.
• [FIX] Java heap space - java.lang.OutOfMemoryError - Committed by ejboy.
• [FIX] NullpointerException in JEXL expressions if running in multiple threads - Committed by ejboy.
• [FIX] Inserting NULL values into a DB2 database - Committed by ejboy.
• [UPDATE] Make driver attribute optional with default value of "auto" - Committed by ejboy.
• [UPDATE] Replace opencsv with a built-in implementation - Committed by ejboy.
• [UPDATE] Simplified onerror regex matching for message and type attributes - Committed by ejboy.
• [UPDATE] Use column label in addition to column name for JDBC metadata - Committed by ejboy.

Contributors to this release

We thank the following people for their contributions to this release.

This is a list of all people who participated as committers:
Fyodor Kupolov (ejboy), Kirill Volgin (volk).

Version 1.0 beta (2007-11-08)

Changes to the Code Base

• [ADD] Driver for running external Scriptella ETL files - Committed by ejboy.
• [ADD] Add "autocommit.size" JDBC connection parameter - Committed by ejboy.
• [ADD] "autocommit" connection parameter - Committed by ejboy.
• [FIX] Impossible to import NULL with CSV driver - Committed by ejboy.
• [FIX] JdbcException throwing during driver loading - Committed by volk.
• [UPDATE] Upgrade to Velocity 1.5 - Committed by ejboy.
• [UPDATE] [Compatibility] Upgrade to Janino 2.5.11 - Committed by ejboy.
• [UPDATE] Several minor bugs were fixed, cosmetic fixes for code, site and documentation - Committed by ejboy.

Contributors to this release

We thank the following people for their contributions to this release.

This is a list of all people who participated as committers:
Fyodor Kupolov (ejboy), Kirill Volgin (volk).

Version 0.9 (2007-05-17)

Changes to Build

• [UPDATE] Since this release JDK 6 is required to build Scriptella - Committed by ejboy.

Changes to the Code Base

• [ADD] Auto-discovery for JDBC drivers - Committed by ejboy.
• [ADD] Support for JSR 223 (Scripting for the Java Platform) - Committed by ejboy.
• [ADD] Add ?{textfile 'filename/url'} to upload CLOBs from text files - Committed by ejboy.
• [ADD] Database migration template - Committed by ejboy.
• [FIX] SpringDriverTest failed in coverage mode - Committed by ejboy.
• [FIX] Fix for LDAP when using search.scope and search.basedn parameters - Committed by ejboy.
• [UPDATE] Simplified dialect names matching - Committed by ejboy.
• [UPDATE] Support for bind variables/expressions in a href attribute of include element - Committed by ejboy.
• [UPDATE] skip_lines connection parameter for CSV and Text driver - Committed by ejboy.

Contributors to this release

We thank the following people for their contributions to this release.

This is a list of all people who participated as committers:
Fyodor Kupolov (ejboy).

Version 0.8 (2007-03-28)

Changes to Project Administration

• [UPDATE] Upgrade to Janino 2.5.6 - Committed by ejboy.

Changes to Build

• [UPDATE] Remove unused commons-logging classes from scriptella.jar - Committed by ejboy.

Changes to the Code Base

• [ADD] Add a feature to work with dates in ${...} JEXL expressions - Committed by ejboy.
• [ADD] Runnable and Callable facade for EtlExecutor - Committed by ejboy.
• [ADD] Mail provider - Committed by ejboy.
• [FIX] NULL not handled for CLOBs and BLOBs - Committed by ejboy.
• [FIX] Fix Spring context propagation - Committed by ejboy.
• [UPDATE] Send output to the console if no output file URL was specified for Velocity and Text driver - Committed by ejboy.
• [UPDATE] Automatically convert windows DRIVE:/ paths to file:/DRIVE:/ URL - Committed by ejboy.

Contributors to this release

We thank the following people for their contributions to this release.

This is a list of all people who participated as committers:
Fyodor Kupolov (ejboy).

Version 0.7 (2007-02-14)

Changes to Build

• [ADD] Include scriptella-src-ide.zip in a binary distribution - Committed by ejboy.

Changes to the Code Base

• [ADD] JEXL driver - Committed by ejboy.
• [ADD] XML XPath provider - Committed by ejboy.
• [ADD] XML example - Committed by ejboy.
• [FIX] Compile error on JDK 6 - Committed by ejboy.
• [FIX] Do not produce bug report if no driver on classpath - Committed by ejboy, volk.
• [FIX] Improved examples, ODBC example was not working - Committed by ejboy.
• [UPDATE] Make "throughput" parameter in JMX mbean more accurate - Committed by ejboy.
• [UPDATE] Various performance optimizations - Committed by ejboy.

Contributors to this release

We thank the following people for their contributions to this release.

This is a list of all people who participated as committers:
Fyodor Kupolov (ejboy), Kirill Volgin (volk).

Version 0.6 (2007-01-08)

Changes to the Code Base

• [ADD] Text Provider - Committed by ejboy.
• [ADD] PostgreSQL Driver - Committed by volk.
• [ADD] DB2 Driver - Committed by volk.
• [ADD] Lucene search engine driver - Committed by volk.
• [ADD] Rollback ETL on Ctrl-C - Committed by ejboy.
• [ADD] transaction.isolation property for JDBC connection - Committed by ejboy.
• [ADD] Add JMX mbean for monitoring - Committed by ejboy.
• [UPDATE] Improved test code coverage - Committed by ejboy.

Contributors to this release

We thank the following people for their contributions to this release.

This is a list of all people who participated as committers:
Fyodor Kupolov (ejboy), Kirill Volgin (volk).

Version 0.5dev (2006-11-16)

Changes to Project Administration

• [UPDATE] Supported libraries upgraded to Janino 2.5.1, H2 1.0, HSQLDB 1.8.0.7, opencsv 1.7 - Committed by ejboy.

Changes to the Code Base

• [ADD] Log SQLWarnings - Committed by ejboy.
• [ADD] Configurable sql delimiters for JDBC Bridge - Committed by ejboy.
• [ADD] add lazy-init connection attribute - Committed by ejboy.
• [ADD] Oracle driver - Committed by volk.
• [ADD] Sybase driver - Committed by volk.
• [ADD] Resultset Data types conversion (including BLOB/CLOB) - Committed by ejboy.
• [ADD] Support for Oracle Hints - Committed by ejboy.
• [ADD] MySQL driver - Committed by volk.
• [FIX] scriptella.bat not working if no JAVA_HOME - Committed by ejboy.
• [FIX] Illegal handling of -- comments - Committed by ejboy.
• [UPDATE] Performance improvements - Committed by ejboy.
• [UPDATE] Improved code coverage - Committed by ejboy.

Contributors to this release

We thank the following people for their contributions to this release.

This is a list of all people who participated as committers:
Fyodor Kupolov (ejboy), Kirill Volgin (volk).

All Committers

This is a list of all people who have ever participated as committers on this project.

• Fyodor Kupolov (ejboy)
• Kirill Volgin (volk)