SQuirreL has a new SQuirreL source code repository: GIT

To create a local clone of the repository use the command line:

git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/squirrel-sql/git squirrel-sql-git

or

git clone http://git.code.sf.net/p/squirrel-sql/git squirrel-sql-git

Registered developers should use:

git clone ssh://@git.code.sf.net/p/squirrel-sql/git squirrel-sql-git

Great thanks to Venkatram Akkineni for preparing the repository and for helping to import it to SQuirreL.

SQuirreL is updated to Sourceforge Allura.

The most important changes are the new SVN repository URLs:
To checkout SQuirreL from subversion use the command:
svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/squirrel-sql/code/trunk/sql12
or
svn checkout http://svn.code.sf.net/p/squirrel-sql/code/trunk/sql12

Registered developers should use:
svn checkout --username=<SF user name> svn+ssh://<SF user name>@svn.code.sf.net/p/squirrel-sql/code/trunk/sql12

A description how to set up SQuirreL for the Starschema BigQuery database can be found here:
http://code.google.com/p/starschema-bigquery-jdbc/wiki/SQuirreLSQL

The latest French translation update is available here:
http://squirrel-sql.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrel-sql/trunk/sql12/squirrelsql-translations/src/main/resources/squirrel-sql_fr.jar

Directions how to activate the translation update can be found here:
http://squirrel-sql.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=translations

Version 3.4 is available for download. For a complete list of all changes see our change log:
http://squirrel-sql.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrel-sql/trunk/sql12/doc/src/main/resources/changes.txt

We are planning to release version 3.4 soon. It would be great if as many users as possible could have a look at the latest snapshot which is essentially the planned release version. Thanks.

The snapshot can be downloaded from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/squirrel-sql/files/3-snapshots/Snapshot-20120711_1724/

For those interested in programming SQuirreL there is a new instruction that explains how to set up your IDE to quickly test and debug code changes for SQuirreL and SQuirreL plugins.

See:
http://www.squirrelsql.org/IDEsetup/SQuirreLIDE.html

New Multisource Plugin:
- Allows SQuirreL to support native multiple source queries where one SQL query spans multiple sources.
- The Plugin supports standard SQL including joins, group by, aggregation, LIMIT, and ordering where tables may come from one or more sources.
- The Plugin will perform function translation where a user requests a function that is not supported on a certain source.
- Added a new UnityJDBC default driver definition that supports this virtualization.... read more

It's been a while since the last release (December 2010), so the list of changes is quite extensive:

3.3.0 (11/20/2011)

Enhancements:

Hibernate Plugin:
Directories containing archive files (Jars, Zips) can now be added to a Hibernate configuration's classpath.
All files in the directory will be added as classpath entries.

Hibernate Plugin:
HQL errors during results reading are now displayed as a result tab. (Similar to the new SQL error display.)... read more

Tom Snyder published an article on how to install SQuirreL SQL for use with DB2 on MCPressOnline.com, which is a popular site for the IBM i (AKA AS/400) community. The article can be found here:
http://www.mcpressonline.com/programming/sql/an-open-source-db2-sql-graphical-tool-that-you-can-use-for-all-your-databases.html