diff --git a/jOOQ-migrations-maven/pom.xml b/jOOQ-migrations-maven/pom.xml
index d96a997ee0..83a8b0f3ed 100644
--- a/jOOQ-migrations-maven/pom.xml
+++ b/jOOQ-migrations-maven/pom.xml
@@ -90,6 +90,10 @@
             <groupId>org.jooq</groupId>
             <artifactId>jooq</artifactId>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>jakarta.xml.bind</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jakarta.xml.bind-api</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
diff --git a/jOOQ-migrations-maven/src/main/java/org/jooq/migrations/maven/HistoryMojo.java b/jOOQ-migrations-maven/src/main/java/org/jooq/migrations/maven/HistoryMojo.java
index da4a6ef6ac..fd6341e656 100644
--- a/jOOQ-migrations-maven/src/main/java/org/jooq/migrations/maven/HistoryMojo.java
+++ b/jOOQ-migrations-maven/src/main/java/org/jooq/migrations/maven/HistoryMojo.java
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ import org.jooq.Migration;
 import org.jooq.Version;
 import org.jooq.tools.StringUtils;
 
+import org.apache.maven.plugin.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.Mojo;
 
 /**
@@ -65,28 +66,30 @@ public class HistoryMojo extends AbstractMigrateMojo {
 
     @Override
     final void execute1(Migration migration) throws Exception {
-        if (getLog().isInfoEnabled()) {
-            for (HistoryVersion version : migration.dsl().migrations().history()) {
-                getLog().info(string(version.migratedAt()) + " - Version: " + string(version.version()));
+        if (getLog().isInfoEnabled())
+            for (HistoryVersion version : migration.dsl().migrations().history())
+                log(getLog(), version);
+    }
 
-                if (version.version().parents().size() > 1) {
-                    getLog().info("  Merged parents: ");
+    static final void log(Log log, HistoryVersion version) {
+        log.info("  " + string(version.migratedAt()) + " - Version: " + string(version.version()));
 
-                    for (Version p : version.version().parents())
-                        getLog().info("  - " + string(p));
-                }
-            }
+        if (version.version().parents().size() > 1) {
+            log.info("  Merged parents: ");
+
+            for (Version p : version.version().parents())
+                log.info("  - " + string(p));
         }
     }
 
-    private final String string(Instant instant) {
+    private static final String string(Instant instant) {
         if (instant == null)
             return "0000-00-00T00:00:00.000Z";
         else
             return StringUtils.rightPad(instant.toString(), 24);
     }
 
-    private final String string(Version version) {
+    private static final String string(Version version) {
         return version.id() + (!isEmpty(version.message()) ? " (" + version.message() + ")" : "");
     }
 }
diff --git a/jOOQ-migrations-maven/src/main/java/org/jooq/migrations/maven/LogMojo.java b/jOOQ-migrations-maven/src/main/java/org/jooq/migrations/maven/LogMojo.java
index 01c75d7d47..6b9972dd73 100644
--- a/jOOQ-migrations-maven/src/main/java/org/jooq/migrations/maven/LogMojo.java
+++ b/jOOQ-migrations-maven/src/main/java/org/jooq/migrations/maven/LogMojo.java
@@ -37,9 +37,16 @@
  */
 package org.jooq.migrations.maven;
 
+import static java.util.stream.Collectors.toList;
 import static org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.LifecyclePhase.GENERATE_SOURCES;
 import static org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.ResolutionScope.TEST;
 
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+import java.util.stream.StreamSupport;
+
+import org.jooq.History;
+import org.jooq.HistoryVersion;
 import org.jooq.Migration;
 import org.jooq.Query;
 import org.jooq.tools.StringUtils;
@@ -63,7 +70,31 @@ public class LogMojo extends AbstractMigrateMojo {
     @Override
     final void execute1(Migration migration) throws Exception {
         if (getLog().isInfoEnabled()) {
+            History history = migration.dsl().migrations().history();
+            List<HistoryVersion> versions = StreamSupport
+                .stream(history.spliterator(), false)
+                .collect(toList());
+
+            if (versions.isEmpty()) {
+                getLog().info("No migration history available yet");
+            }
+            else {
+                getLog().info("Migration history");
+
+                for (HistoryVersion version : versions.subList(
+                    Math.max(0, versions.size() - 5),
+                    versions.size()
+                )) {
+                    HistoryMojo.log(getLog(), version);
+                }
+            }
+
             Query[] queries = migration.queries().queries();
+
+            getLog().info("Outstanding queries from " + migration.from() + " to " + migration.to() + ": "
+                + (queries.length == 0 ? "none" : "")
+            );
+
             log(getLog(), queries);
         }
     }
diff --git a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/FilePattern.java b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/FilePattern.java
index 07bf140495..503df706e3 100644
--- a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/FilePattern.java
+++ b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/FilePattern.java
@@ -168,6 +168,10 @@ public final class FilePattern {
         );
     }
 
+    public final Comparator<File> fileComparator() {
+        return fileComparator(sort());
+    }
+
     public static final Comparator<File> fileComparator(Sort sort) {
         if (sort == null)
             sort = SEMANTIC;
diff --git a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/impl/CommitsImpl.java b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/impl/CommitsImpl.java
index 5854d5d369..6ff8291df8 100644
--- a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/impl/CommitsImpl.java
+++ b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/impl/CommitsImpl.java
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ package org.jooq.impl;
 
 import static java.util.Arrays.asList;
 import static java.util.Collections.unmodifiableCollection;
+import static java.util.Comparator.comparing;
 import static java.util.stream.Collectors.toList;
 import static org.jooq.impl.Tools.filter;
 import static org.jooq.impl.Tools.isEmpty;
@@ -48,6 +49,7 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.Reader;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Comparator;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
@@ -291,7 +293,10 @@ final class CommitsImpl implements Commits {
         // [#9506] TODO: Turning a directory into a MigrationsType (and various other conversion)
         //               could be made reusable. This is certainly very useful for testing and interop,
         //               e.g. also to support other formats (Flyway, Liquibase) as source
-        TreeMap<String, CommitType> idToCommit = new TreeMap<>();
+        TreeMap<String, CommitType> idToCommit = new TreeMap<>(comparing(
+            java.io.File::new,
+            pattern.fileComparator()
+        ));
 
         List<FileData> list = files.stream().map(s -> new FileData(pattern, s)).collect(toList());
 
@@ -303,6 +308,7 @@ final class CommitsImpl implements Commits {
                 .withId(f.id)
                 .withAuthor(f.author)
                 .withMessage(f.message)
+                .withTags(f.tags)
             );
 
         for (FileData f : list) {
@@ -334,6 +340,9 @@ final class CommitsImpl implements Commits {
             );
         }
 
+        if (log.isDebugEnabled())
+            log.debug("Loading files into: " + new MigrationsType().withCommits(idToCommit.values()));
+
         return load(new MigrationsType().withCommits(idToCommit.values()));
     }
 
diff --git a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/impl/HistoryImpl.java b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/impl/HistoryImpl.java
index 9aaec0b582..a862451fc6 100644
--- a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/impl/HistoryImpl.java
+++ b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/impl/HistoryImpl.java
@@ -339,6 +339,9 @@ class HistoryImpl extends AbstractScope implements History {
 
     @Override
     public String toString() {
-        return "History [" + current() + "]";
+        if (!isEmpty(versions))
+            return "History [" + current() + "]";
+        else
+            return "History []";
     }
 }
diff --git a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/impl/Interpreter.java b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/impl/Interpreter.java
index 1b87659670..2fa67e4b2f 100644
--- a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/impl/Interpreter.java
+++ b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/impl/Interpreter.java
@@ -1379,11 +1379,32 @@ final class Interpreter {
     }
 
     private static final DataDefinitionException notExists(Named named) {
-        return notExists(named.getClass().getSimpleName(), named);
+        return notExists(typeName(named), named);
     }
 
     private static final DataDefinitionException alreadyExists(Named named) {
-        return alreadyExists(named.getClass().getSimpleName(), named);
+        return alreadyExists(typeName(named), named);
+    }
+
+    private static final String typeName(Named named) {
+
+        // TODO: Move this to the Named interface
+        if (named instanceof Catalog)
+            return "Catalog";
+        else if (named instanceof Schema)
+            return "Schema";
+        else if (named instanceof Table)
+            return "Table";
+        else if (named instanceof Field)
+            return "Field";
+        else if (named instanceof Sequence)
+            return "Sequence";
+        else if (named instanceof Domain)
+            return "Domain";
+        else if (named instanceof Synonym)
+            return "Synonym";
+        else
+            return named.getClass().getSimpleName();
     }
 
     private static final DataDefinitionException notExists(String type, Named named) {
diff --git a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/impl/MigrationImpl.java b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/impl/MigrationImpl.java
index 8158c4e669..83703f9cdc 100644
--- a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/impl/MigrationImpl.java
+++ b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/impl/MigrationImpl.java
@@ -212,11 +212,37 @@ final class MigrationImpl extends AbstractScope implements Migration {
 
     private final void revertUntracked(DefaultMigrationContext ctx, MigrationListener listener, HistoryRecord currentRecord) {
         if (ctx.revertUntrackedQueries.queries().length > 0)
-            if (!TRUE.equals(dsl().settings().isMigrationRevertUntracked()))
-                throw new DataMigrationVerificationException(
-                    "Non-empty difference between actual schema and migration from schema: " + ctx.revertUntrackedQueries +
-                    (currentRecord == null ? ("\n\nUse Settings.migrationAutoBaseline to automatically set a baseline") : "")
-                );
+            if (!TRUE.equals(dsl().settings().isMigrationRevertUntracked())) {
+                if (currentRecord == null) {
+                    throw new DataMigrationVerificationException(
+                        """
+                        Non-empty difference between actual schema and migration from schema: {queries}.
+
+                        Possible remedies:
+                        - Use Settings.migrationAutoBaseline to automatically set a baseline.
+                        """.replace("{queries}", "" + ctx.revertUntrackedQueries)
+                    );
+                }
+                else {
+                    throw new DataMigrationVerificationException(
+                        """
+                        Non-empty difference between actual schema and migration from schema: {queries}.
+
+                        This can happen for two reasons:
+                        1) The migration specification of a version that has already been installed has been modified.
+                        2) The database schemas contain untracked objects.
+
+                        Possible remedies if 1):
+                        - Revert changes to the migration specification and move those changes to a new version.
+
+                        Possible remedies if 2):
+                        - Use Settings.migrationRevertUntracked to automatically drop unknown objects (at your own risk!)
+                        - Manually drop or move unknown objects outside of managed schemas.
+                        - Update migration scripts to track missing objects.
+                        """.replace("{queries}", "" + ctx.revertUntrackedQueries)
+                    );
+                }
+            }
             else if (listener != null)
                 execute(ctx, listener, ctx.revertUntrackedQueries);
     }
diff --git a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/migrations/xml/jaxb/CommitType.java b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/migrations/xml/jaxb/CommitType.java
index 6f1a1cd2a1..568091690b 100644
--- a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/migrations/xml/jaxb/CommitType.java
+++ b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/migrations/xml/jaxb/CommitType.java
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ import org.jooq.util.jaxb.tools.XMLBuilder;
  *     &lt;restriction base="{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}anyType"&gt;
  *       &lt;all&gt;
  *         &lt;element name="parents" type="{http://www.jooq.org/xsd/jooq-migrations-3.20.0.xsd}ParentsType" minOccurs="0"/&gt;
- *         &lt;element name="id" type="{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}string"/&gt;
+ *         &lt;element name="id" type="{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}string" minOccurs="0"/&gt;
  *         &lt;element name="message" type="{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}string" minOccurs="0"/&gt;
  *         &lt;element name="author" type="{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}string" minOccurs="0"/&gt;
  *         &lt;element name="tags" type="{http://www.jooq.org/xsd/jooq-migrations-3.20.0.xsd}TagsType" minOccurs="0"/&gt;
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ public class CommitType implements Serializable, XMLAppendable
 {
 
     private final static long serialVersionUID = 32000L;
-    @XmlElement(required = true)
     protected String id;
     protected String message;
     protected String author;
diff --git a/jOOQ/src/main/resources/org/jooq/xsd/jooq-migrations-3.20.0.xsd b/jOOQ/src/main/resources/org/jooq/xsd/jooq-migrations-3.20.0.xsd
index 2539203149..e13d7c38d2 100644
--- a/jOOQ/src/main/resources/org/jooq/xsd/jooq-migrations-3.20.0.xsd
+++ b/jOOQ/src/main/resources/org/jooq/xsd/jooq-migrations-3.20.0.xsd
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
     <complexType name="CommitType">
         <all>
             <element name="parents" type="tns:ParentsType" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
-            <element name="id" type="string" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" />
+            <element name="id" type="string" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
             <element name="message" type="string" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
             <element name="author" type="string" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
             <element name="tags" type="tns:TagsType" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />