Liquibase 4.8.0 Release Notes

Liquibase v4.8.0 is a major release.

See GitHub formatted release notes for more information. Full changelog: 4.7.1–4.8.0 (February 22, 2022)

This release includes the init hub subcommand, Liquibase Pro support for MSSQL Server sqlcmd utility, community-contributed pull requests, and Liquibase Open Source and Liquibase Pro bug fixes.

Notable Changes

Liquibase 4.8.0 introduces the following functionality:

  • The init hub subcommand that connects your local Liquibase activity to Liquibase Hub and sets up the Liquibase environment to use Liquibase Hub. [DAT-8769]
  • [PRO] The sqlcmd utility support to process complex SQL for MSSQL Server. Liquibase provides the liquibase.sqlcmd.conf file to pass arguments to your executor when running Liquibase Pro. [DAT-7447]

    • Note: For more information, see Use Native Executors with Microsoft SQL Server.

  • Changes to the behavior of the XML parser, which no longer allows referencing external DTD files for security reasons. If you use externally defined entities or any other potentially insecure XML feature in your changelogs, set liquibase.secureParsing=false. [PR#2384] [LB-2218]

    • Note: For more information about the ways to set the parameter, see Liquibase Parameters.

  • The upgrade of the postgresql (from 42.2.12 to 42.3.2) and h2 (from 2.0.206 to 2.1.210) drivers that Liquibase includes in the installation package. If you use those drivers and upgrade an existing Liquibase installation, remove the earlier versions of drivers from the LIQUIBASE_HOME/lib directory.

Enhancements

  • Implemented the SimpleObjectConstructor interface for DB2 on z/OS [DAT-8580]
  • Included the CLI instructions on how to use the properties file with a nonstandard name when running the init project subcommand [DAT-9041]
  • Improved the output message for init start-h2 when the H2 database driver is specified, but there is no connection detected [DAT-8992]
  • Added validation errors for the enableCheckConstraint, disableCheckConstraint, dropPackage, dropPackageBodyChange Types [DAT-9017]
  • [PR#2367] [Mike Olivas] Added example rollback scripts to the example-changelog.sql file [LB-2220]
  • [PR#1648] [Daniel Gray] Improved the exception error message for the customChange node with no classattribute [LB-1144]
  • [PR#2222] [msimko81] Added the offline mode support for the rollback-sql <tag> operation [LB-2198]
  • [PR#2273] [Tsvi Zandany] Added the autocomplete quality checks commands for macOS
  • [PR#2308] [Valentin Blistin] Added the close method for the ClassLoaderResourceAccessor class [LB-2205]

Fixes

Contributions

Our community has built a lot. Thanks to everyone who contributes and helps make the Liquibase community strong, including the following first-time contributors: