First use of v2.4 after 2.3.2 gets exception in Oracle driver called from SQLDatabaseMetaData.getColumns()

I installed v2.4, and then changed the bat file to point to my Java 5
distro.  When I brought it up, I connected to an alias I already had
defined.  It brought up the window showing the tables, but when I tried
to view a table, nothing displayed in the pane.  I noticed there was an
error in the log file, which might be relevant. I didn't have this
problem with v2.3.2.  I assume v2.4 is using the same aliases and driver
settings that I had set in v2.3.2.  I can't view any table information
with this version.  I don't see a bug like this in the bug list.

java.sql.SQLException: Io exception: invalid arguments in call
        at
oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.throwSqlException(DBError.java:134)
        at
oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.throwSqlException(DBError.java:179)
        at
oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.throwSqlException(DBError.java:334)
        at
oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatement.freeLine(OracleStatement.java:6502)
        at
oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleConnection.needLine(OracleConnection.java:2416)
        at
oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatement.open(OracleStatement.java:574)
        at
oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatement.doExecuteWithTimeout(OracleStatement.
java:2803)
        at
oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatement.executeUpdate(OraclePreparedS
tatement.java:608)
        at
oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatement.executeQuery(OraclePreparedSt
atement.java:536)
        at
oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDatabaseMetaData.getColumns(OracleDatabaseMetaD
ata.java:242)
        at
net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.fw.sql.SQLDatabaseMetaData.getColumns(SQLDa
tabaseMetaData.java:1834)
        at
net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.fw.sql.SQLDatabaseMetaData.getColumns(SQLDa
tabaseMetaData.java:1855)
        at
net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.session.mainpanel.objecttree.tabs.ta
ble.ColumnsTab.createDataSet(ColumnsTab.java:69)
        at
net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.client.session.mainpanel.objecttree.tabs.Ba
seDataSetTab$1.run(BaseDataSetTab.java:123)
        at
net.sourceforge.squirrel_sql.fw.util.TaskExecuter.run(TaskExecuter.java:
82)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

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