PL/Java 1.6.3 and 1.5.8 released

PL/Java brings functions, triggers, aggregates, types, operators, etc.
in Java.

1.6.3 is the third minor update in the 1.6 series, for applications on
PostgreSQL 9.5 or later and Java 9 or later. Legacy applications
requiring older PostgreSQL or Java versions are supported by the 1.5
series.

1.6.3 adds support for PostgreSQL 14, brings a few improvements to the
annotation-driven SQL generator and the runtime, and fixes several bugs.
It also begins preparation for the impact of changes to Java's
permission enforcement coming in Java 17 and later with JEP 411.

For more on those upcoming changes in Java and how PL/Java will adapt,
please bookmark the JEP 411 topic[1] on the PL/Java wiki.

Current users of a 1.5.x release should also review the 1.6 series
release notes for changes that may require attention before updating
to 1.6.x.

Project site: http://tada.github.io/pljava/
Release notes: http://tada.github.io/pljava/releasenotes.html

Selected changes

* Can generate a complete family of cross-type operators related by
commutation and negation from a single Java method. A bug kept that
from working in 1.6.2.

* A method parameter can now be annotated so that the PostgreSQL
function parameter will default to null. Formerly, only non-null
defaults could be specified that way.

* The current thread's context class loader now has a useful value
on entry to a PL/Java function.

Please see the release notes for a more complete list of changes.

Availability:

1.6.3 is available from GitHub as a source release, which builds quickly
using Maven:

Release page: https://github.com/tada/pljava/releases/tag/V1_6_3

This wiki page will add links to prebuilt packages that become
available:

https://github.com/tada/pljava/wiki/Prebuilt-packages

The legacy PL/Java 1.5 has also had a release 1.5.8, adding support
for PostgreSQL 14, a couple of bug fixes, and some minimal JEP 411
awareness.

[1] https://github.com/tada/pljava/wiki/JEP-411