The PostgreSQL JDBC team is proud to announce version 42.3.0
The major change here is that we have dropped support for JAVA 6 and JAVA 7
This allows us to move forward with further changes
The following was also fixed
Rework OSGi bundle activator so it does not rely on exception message to check DataSourceFactory presence PR #507
Fix database metadata getFunctions() and getProcedures() to ignore search_path when no schema pattern is specified PR #2174
Fix refreshRow made the row readOnly. [PR #2195](https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc/pull/2195 Fixes Issue #2193
Fix do not add double quotes to identifiers already double quoted PR #2224 Fixes Issue #2223 Add a property QUOTE_RETURNING_IDENTIFIERS which determines if we put double quotes around identifiers that are provided in the returning array.
Fix Provide useful error message for empty or missing passwords for SCRAM auth PR #2290 fixes Issue #2288
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release.