# \#derby **URL:** https://community.openhab.org/tag/derby/5218.md [Latest](https://community.openhab.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.openhab.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://community.openhab.org/tags.md) --- ## [Retirement of Apache Derby (persistence)](https://community.openhab.org/t/retirement-of-apache-derby-persistence/167762)
**Author:** [@lsiepel](https://community.openhab.org/u/lsiepel)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2026, 4:57pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/retirement-of-apache-derby-persistence/167762 "2026-09-27T16:57:42Z")
Apache Derby is an external project that has been used as one of the JDBC persistence options in openHAB for many years. As of October 2025, Derby is no longer actively maintained upstream. This means there will be no fu…