In May we received request from our friends at Quarkus asking that we allow users more control over how Flyway looks up resources. By resources, we mean things like migrations, callbacks, and so on. They were even kind enough to provide a Pull Request! The Pull Request was merged, and the changes released in Flyway 6.5. In this blog […] Read more

Flyway 6.5.0 is out! This release contains new features and improvements over Flyway 6.4.0. Highlights You can now set a property to disable automatic schema creation You can now configure script encoding on a per-script bases You can now provide your own ResourceProvider and ClassProvider in the api You can find a detailed list of the […] Read more

At its core, Flyway is a Java library, though it hooks into many clients which are frequently used in non-Java contexts. For non-Java contexts we’d like Flyway to be as platform-agnostic as possible. Nonetheless, some Java-specific concepts have to be exposed, like our use of Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) drivers. The Flyway Command Line client […] Read more

When you’re on your own developing a simple application, managing your migration scripts is not a demanding task; each time you add a script, it gets the next version number in whatever sequence you’ve decided on using. When your application takes off and you find you have a team working on migrations simultaneously, sharing code […] Read more

Earlier versions of Flyway supported simpler schema migrations within a single CockroachDB node. Both Flyway and CockroachDB aim to be simple to use, and we’re delighted that the Cockroach Labs team have worked closely with us to enable Flyway to be just as robust and reliable in scenarios involving many distributed nodes where migrations need […] Read more

In Flyway 6.4.0 we introduced a new feature, support for wildcards in the locations. With this feature a new set of solutions to organizing your migration files has now become available. In this post we hope to detail some of them, to aid the users of Flyway in deciding the solution that best suits their environment. Wildcards […] Read more

In Flyway 6.3.0 we introduced a new feature. The ability to use the ${flyway:timestamp} placeholder (See Placeholders for more details). This placeholder will insert the current date in the format yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss as its value. Now, this has some very obvious uses such as storing the date a migration was executed into your database. However, there is something more complex you […] Read more

Flyway 6.3.0 is out! This release contains new features and improvements over Flyway 6.2.0. Highlights The highlights of the features introduced since the 6.2.0 release include: New in Flyway 6.3.0 Add a loadDefaultConfigurationFiles method to the api to load flyway.conf files from the default locations Add working directory support to the clients that didn’t already have it Add support for […] Read more

Flyway 6.2.0 is out! This release contains new features and improvements over Flyway 6.1.0. Highlights The highlights of the 6.2.0 release include: Add -color CLI option to allow overriding the default colorization Add flyway.validateMigrationNaming option to fail validation if scripts that don’t match the naming pattern are found in one of the configured locations Create all schemas specified in flyway.schemas Add FLYWAY_DEFAULT_SCHEMA environment […] Read more

Flyway 6.1.0 is out! This release contains new features and improvements over Flyway 6.0.0. Highlights The highlights of the 6.1.0 release include: Manual transaction override Snowflake support Machine-readable output for the info command Default placeholders Environment variable substitution in config files You can find a detailed list of issues fixed in the release notes. Manual transaction override You can […] Read more