I just submitted DBUTILS-105<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DBUTILS-105> to add support for named params to DB Utils. I'm thinking that if we wrapped that up with DBUTILS-95 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DBUTILS-95> and DBUTILS-92 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DBUTILS-92> it would be worth cutting a new major version.
Also, we should switch the maven convention which probably means changing to commons-dbutils2 much like was done with lang. Thoughts? Bill-