02.20.2017 - JDBC 42.0.0 Released

The JDBC group is proud to release a new version, and in keeping with the version renumbering meme we have released version 42.0.0.

Notable changes include:

• Support for PostgreSQL versions below 8.2 was dropped
• java.util.logging is now used for logging: logging documentation
• Ensure executeBatch() can be used with pgbouncer. Previously pgjdbc could use server-prepared statements for batch execution even with prepareThreshold=0 (see issue 742)
• Replication protocol API was added: replication API documentation, PR#550
• Version bumped to 42.0.0 to avoid version clash with PostgreSQL version
• Error position is displayed when SQL has unterminated literals, comments, etc (see issue 688)