After H2-Upgrade - spring

Question

i did an upgrade of h2-database in my project and now it fails with this exception:
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.PropertyBatchUpdateException: Failed properties: Property 'driverClassName' threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not load JDBC driver class [org.h2.Driver]
at org.springframework.beans.AbstractPropertyAccessor.setPropertyValues(AbstractPropertyAccessor.java:121) ~[spring-beans-4.2.8.RELEASE.jar:4.2.8.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.beans.AbstractPropertyAccessor.setPropertyValues(AbstractPropertyAccessor.java:75) ~[spring-beans-4.2.8.RELEASE.jar:4.2.8.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1518) ~[spring-beans-4.2.8.RELEASE.jar:4.2.8.RELEASE]
... 66 common frames omitted
Here is my spring-context.xml:
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
<property name="driverClassName" value="${db.driver}" />
<property name="url" value="${db.url}" />
<property name="username" value="${db.username}" />
<property name="password" value="${db.password}" />
</bean>
And here my jdbc.properties where the spring-context loads the data to initialize my datasource:
db.driver=org.h2.Driver
db.url=jdbc:h2:mem:test;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=-1
db.username=sa
db.password=
db.memurl=jdbc:h2:mem:test
All works fine with h2-version 1.4.179 but fails with 1.4.196. Used Spring Version is 4.2.8.
I don't get it why it fails... something has change in H2, but i don't know what... anybody an idea?
--update--
Here all dependencies from pom.xml (spring-version is 4.2.8) and this is a common project for all my test dependencies (packaging is pom), it is used by several projects. I use h2-database as in memory database only for testing:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.testng</groupId>
<artifactId>testng</artifactId>
<version>6.11</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
<artifactId>h2</artifactId>
<version>1.4.196</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
<artifactId>mockito-all</artifactId>
<version>1.10.19</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<packaging>pom</packaging>

Answer 1

Try to add
<scope>runtime</scope>
or
<scope>test</scope>
if you are going to use h2 for test only
to the h2 dependency