V2.6.0

• @DefaultValue("") annotation. Annotated properties will return the specified default value (currently only "" is supported) instead of null. This is useful if a not-null property is added to an entity, but there are existing entities in the database that will return null for the new property.
  Note: naming is not final, it may change to e.g. @AbsentValue(""). #157
• RxJava 3 support library objectbox-rxjava3. Also includes Kotlin extension functions to more easily obtain Rx types, e.g. use query.observable() to get an Observable. #83
• The annotation processor is incremental by default. #620
• Fix error handling if ObjectBox can't create a Java entity (the proper exception is now thrown).
• Support setting an alias after combining conditions using and() or or(). #83
• Add documentation that string property conditions ignore case by default. Point to using case-sensitive conditions for high-performance look-ups, e.g. when using string UIDs.
• Repository Artifacts are signed once again.

Changes since 2.6.0-RC (released on 2020/04/28):

• Performance improvements with query links (aka "joins").
  Note: the order of results has changed unless you explicitly specified properties to order by. Remember: you should not depend on any internal order. If you did, this is a good time to fix it.
• objectbox-java no longer exposes the greenrobot-essentials and FlatBuffers dependencies to consuming projects.
• Minor code improvements.

See the full changelog for more details.