Liquibase helps millions of developers track, version, and deploy database schema changes. It will help you to:
- Control database schema changes for specific versions
- Eliminate errors and delays when releasing databases
- Automatically order scripts for deployment
- Easily rollback changes
- Collaborate with tools you already use
This repository contains the main source code for Liquibase Open Source. For more information about the product, see the Liquibase website.
Liquibase Open Source has built-in support for a variety of databases. Databases that are not part of Liquibase Open Source require extensions that you can download for free. Here is the full list of supported databases.
Liquibase can be integrated with Maven, Ant, Gradle, Spring Boot, and other CI/CD tools. For a full list, see Liquibase Tools & Integrations. You can use Liquibase with GitHub Actions, Spinnaker, and many different workflows.
Liquibase system requirements can be found on the Download Liquibase page.
- Download and run the appropriate installer.
- Make sure to add Liquibase to your PATH.
- Copy the included
examples
directory to the needed location. - Open your CLI and navigate to your
examples/sql
orexamples/xml
directory. - Start the included H2 database with the
liquibase init start-h2
command. - Run the
liquibase update
command. - Run the
liquibase history
command to see what has executed!
See also how to get started with Liquibase in minutes or refer to our Installing Liquibase documentation page for more details.
Visit the Liquibase Documentation website to find the information on how Liquibase works.
Learn all about Liquibase by taking our free online courses at Liquibase University.
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Use our step-by-step instructions for contributing code to the Liquibase open source project.
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Get Support & Advanced Features
- When a PO (Product Owner) or a Team Leader navigates to Publish a release from here -> https://github.com/liquibase/liquibase/releases/new, the workflow from /workflow/release-published.yml job is triggered.
- When a release is triggered, the workflow file will stop after
Setup
step and an email will be sent out to the list ofapprovers
mentioned in jobmanual_trigger_deployment
. You can click on the link and perform anyone of the options mentioned in description. - A minimum of 2 approvers are needed in order for the other jobs such as
deploy_maven
,deploy_javadocs
,publish_to_github_packages
, etc to be executed. - When you view the GitHub PR, make sure to verify the version which is being published. It should say something like
Deploying v4.20.0 to sonatype