LiquiBase 1.7.0

It is LiquiBase 1.0's first birthday, but you get the gift: LiquiBase 1.7.0 is now available. LiquiBase is a Java-based LGPL-licensed database change management tool.

Short (6 minutes) overview of LiquiBase and its capabilities:

Major changes include:

• Added loadData change which allows importing of data from CSV files
• Added support for changelog parameters for more dynamic and flexible change logs
• Allow preconditions in changeSet tags to act as sanity checks during a database update
• Can export data with generateChangeLog
• Added markNextChangeSetRan command
• Added validCheckSum tag to changeSet
• Can use any refactoring tags or reference previous changeSets inside a rollback tag
• Allow custom preconditions
• RowMapper interface is now public
• Misc bug fixes

The core library can be downloaded from http://www.liquibase.org/download while the Maven, Grails, and IntelliJ plug-ins can be installed from their respective plug-in managers.