Hsql db 1.7.1 does not support addBatch

It seems that hsqldb-1.7.1 does not support addBatch, it always has the following exception:

java.sql.SQLException: This function is not supported
at org.hsqldb.Trace.getError(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.Trace.error(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.jdbcPreparedStatement.getNotSupported(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.jdbcPreparedStatement.addBatch(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.commons.dbcp.DelegatingPreparedStatement.addBatch(DelegatingPreparedStatement.
java:171)
at org.apache.jetspeed.statistics.impl.BatchedStatistics.flush(BatchedStatistics.java:166)
at org.apache.jetspeed.statistics.impl.BatchedStatistics.checkAndDoFlush(BatchedStatistics.j
ava:81)
at org.apache.jetspeed.statistics.impl.BatchedStatistics.run(BatchedStatistics.java:127)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)

Upgrade to hsqldb-1.8.0.2 will solved it.