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-# Change log for Cottontail DB
-
-## Version 0.12.13
-
-### Bugfixes
-
-* Fixed an issue that caused index partition strategy to be used despite an index not supporting this.
-* UpdateOperator now only write columns that are actually changed.
-
-## Version 0.12.12
-
-* Bumped some library versions.
-
-### Bugfixes
-
-* Fixed a bug in LIKE-queries with wildcard at the beginning (ends with).
-* Another, minor bugfix for `DeferFetchOnFetchRewriteRule
-
-## Version 0.12.11
-
-### Bugfixes
-
-* Added a normalization for BETWEEN clauses to `GrpcQueryBinder`.
-
-## Version 0.12.10
-
-### Bugfixes
-
-* Fixed an error in `DeferFetchOnScanRewriteRule` and `DeferFetchOnFetchRewriteRule`.
-
-## Version 0.12.9
-
-* Added UnitTests for gRPC endpoint stability
-* Added latches to all `AbstractTx` to prevent concurrent access from same transaction.
-
-### Bugfixes
-
-* Fixed an error in `DeferFetchOnScanRewriteRule` that could case fetching of unnecessary columns.
-* Fixed an error in `Distances` that caused distance calculation without a weighted version to fail.
-
-## Version 0.12.8
-
-* gRPC endpoint was migrated to Kotlin gRPC
-* Implemented various optimizations that should speed up query execution.
-
-### Bugfixes
-
-* Fixed issue in query execution that could cause Cottontail DB to hang itself up in a concurrent environment.
-
-## Version 0.12.7
-
-### Bugfixes
-
-* Refactored MigrationManager to fix several locking issues due to structuring of transactions.
-* Fixed race condition in query execution due to plan cache.
-
-## Version 0.12.6
-
-### Bugfixes
-
-* Fixed various bugs related to transaction management especially for DDL statements.
-* Fixed an issue that reset the entity statistics during optimization
-* Fixed a race condition in the LockManager
-
-## Version 0.12.5
-
-* There is now also a Docker container on DockerHub
-* Cleaned-up some unit tests.
-
-### Bugfixes
-
-* Fixed a bug that prevented indexes from being closed properly when closing an entity.
-
-## Version 0.12.4
-
-* Cleaned-up some slight issue in legacy DBO implementation.
-* Unified the pattern used to create and drop schemas, entities and indexes.
-
-### Bugfixes
-
-* Fixed inconsistencies in logging and error handling during query execution.
-* Fixed a bug that caused locks to be released while other DBOs were still in the process of finalizing a transaction.
-* Fixed a bug that caused gRPC methods to return for USER_IMPLICIT transactions before COMMIT or ROLLBACK was executed.
-
-## Version 0.12.3
-
-* Slight optimization as to how DefaultEntity.scan() handles sub-transactions.
-* Weight vectors that contain only ones are now removed during query binding.
-
-### Bugfixes
-
-* Fixed the deferred fetching rule for the query planner.
-
-## Version 0.12.2
-
-### Bugfixes
-
-* Fixed issue that arises if root folder or catalogue doesn't exist.
-
-## Version 0.12.1
-
-* Added explicit catalogue version check during start-up.
-
-### Bugfixes
-
-* Fixed _ping_ gRPC command (thanks to @silvanheller)
-* Fixed issue in DefaultEntity.Tx.optimize() that caused double entries in Index.
-* Fixed error in selectivity calculation that caused certain queries to fail.
-* Fixed error in parallelization calculation that lead low-cost queries to be parallelized.
-
-## Version 0.12.0
-
-* <ins>Breaking:</ins> Re-organized catalogue; old instances of Cottontail DB cannot be used with version 0.12.0. Use _migration_ tool migrate an instance.
-* Language: Added support for ORDER BY-clauses and sub-SELECTS.
-* Language: NNS queries now only support a single query / weight vector. Batched NNS will be re-added in a future version with batched query support.
-* Language: All commands except for _ping_, _begin_, _commit_, _rollback_ now return _QueryResponseMessages_
-* CLI: Re-organized and extended existing CLI functionality.
-* CLI: The _system_ command now hosts commands that allow for introspection into the Cottontail DB execution engine
-* CLI: Added a _system migration_ command that allow for migration of old catalogue versions.
-* Added transaction support; we use 2PL internally to maintain locks on database objects and enforce isolation
-* Added support for incremental updates to indexes upon INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE, if an indexes supports this (#10)
-* Added PQ and VA indexes for nearest neighbor search
-* Added column statistics that can be used for query planning
-* Re-added support for SELECT DISTINCT projection (#68)
-* Re-structured query planner, which should now scale better to more complex query plans
-
-### Bugfixes
-
-* The results of entity optimization are now persistent and visible once the operation completes (#67)