Jan 11th 2012 - DataNucleus Access Platform 3.0.5 ("Newton") is released. DataNucleus Access Platform provides persistence and retrieval of Java objects to/from a wide range of datastores including RDBMS, db4o, LDAP, XML, and Excel. Version 3.0.5 includes the following changes over 3.0.4

• Make use of bulk load from L2 cache on use of PM.getObjectsById
• Support for override of metadata for inherited fields/properties in embedded objects
• Fix to in-memory query evaluation when an order clause is null
• Some clean ups for logging
• Fix to default value of "datanucleus.identifier.case" which was incorrect in 3.0.4
• RDBMS : dont load all query results when running non-tx when we retain the connection
• RDBMS : Support for use of sql-type when there are multiple possible for a jdbc-type
• RDBMS : Support various MySQL sql types such as LONGTEXT, MEDIUMBLOB etc
• RDBMS : Some improved error messages
• JSON : Support for enum fields
• JSON : Support datastore identity
• JSON : Support 1-1/1-N/M-N relations
• JSON : Support field types that have long/String converters
• JSON : Support versioning of objects
• DB4O : Remove invalid import from OSGi info

This release is downloadable under an Apache 2 license from the DataNucleus community site.