A sad day for the Firebird Project

Helen Borrie, a key figure in the Firebird relational database project and a longtime contributor at IBPhoenix, passed away on January 2, 2025. Her contributions were essential to Firebird’s creation and its development over the past 25 years.

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Jaybird 6.0.0 released

We're happy to announce the first release of Jaybird 6, Jaybird 6.0.0.

Read free book "Detailed New Featuires Of Firebird 5": available as HTML and as PDF

Dive deep into the revolutionary features of Firebird 5.0 with this comprehensive guide written by database expert Denis Simonov and edited by Alexey Kovyazin.

This book offers an in-depth exploration of the significant advancements that make Firebird 5.0 a pivotal release in the world of relational databases.

Whether you're a seasoned database administrator, a curious developer, or an IT professional looking to stay ahead of the curve, this book provides the knowledge and insights you need to leverage the full potential of Firebird 5.0.

 https://firebirdsql.org/en/community-news/free-book-detailed-features-of-firebird-5-is-published/

Firebird 5.0 Is Released

Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 5.0 — the latest major release of the Firebird relational database for Windows, Linux, MacOS and Android platforms.

This release introduces improvements in areas of performance, multithreaded processing (including backup, restore, sweep), SQL queries profiling, with better scalability and numerous enhancements in SQL language.

Please refer to the Release Notes for the full list of changes. The complete Language Reference is also available.

Call For Testing Firebird ODBC Driver for Firebird 3.x

The new version of Firebird ODBC driver is in Beta stage now.
Version 3.0.0 Beta is available for testing on Windows. It works only with Firebird 3+ , and requires fbclient.dll from Firebird 3 or above.


https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird-odbc-driver/wiki

Please download, test, and report any issues!

Issues can be reported here: https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird-odbc-driver/issues

Original Pull request for new driver (work in progress): 

Here is an ODBC driver edition, adopted to OOAPI calls instead of isc_ calls.
Since OOAPI is supported by the FB3.0 and later client library, this driver version should be used with FB3.0+ only.

This code has not yet been fully tested and is not guaranteed to work correctly in all cases.

Valgrind 3.22 is available

News via reddit : 

"We are pleased to announce a new release of Valgrind, version 3.22.0,
available from https://valgrind.org/downloads/current.html.
See the release notes below for details of changes.
Our thanks to all those who contribute to Valgrind's development. This
release represents a great deal of time, energy and effort on the part
of many people.
Happy and productive debugging and profiling,
-- The Valgrind Developers"

ps : related to Firebird development (debugging memory allocation) search for USE_VALGRID on github repo

Firebird 5.0 Release Candidate 1 is available for testing

Firebird Project announces the first Release Candidate of Firebird 5.0, the next major version of the Firebird relational database, which is now available for testing on all supported platforms (Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android).

This Release Candidate demonstrates the complete set of features and improvements developed for the new release. Release Candidates are generally considered stable enough and may be recommended for testing in "almost-production" environments. Our users are appreciated giving it a try and providing feedback to the development mailing list. Apparent bugs can be reported directly to the bugtracker.



Please read the Release Notes carefully before installing and testing this Release Candidate

Flamerobin 0.9.9 Snapshot released with a few fixes

Flamerobin 0.9.9 Snapshot released with a few fixes

What’s Changed :

• Fix Mac OS compilation by @rlakis in #328
• Fix saving style error and code scanning alert by @arvanus in #330
• Improve SQL statistics by @arvanus in #331

New Contributors :
@rlakis made their first contribution in #328

Firebird-driver 1.9.0 released

The firebird-driver package provides official Python Database API 2.0-compliant driver. In addition to the minimal feature set of the standard Python DB API, this driver also exposes the new (interface-based) client API introduced in Firebird 3, and number of additional extensions and enhancements for convenient use of Firebird RDBMS. The driver is written as pure-Python package (requires Python 3.8+) on top of Firebird client library (fbclient.so/dll) using ctypes. Driver supports Firebird version 3.0 and higher.


You can download this driver from PyPI or install it using pip.

This version intruduces initial support for Firebird 5.0 new API and features.

See the Changelog for full details.

New features in Firebird 5, Annual General Meeting, elections, and a bit of Firebird history

In this video we discuss the new features of Firebird 5 with Dmitry Yemanov (core developer, RedSoft), Jason Wharton (IBObjects, Temporary Secretary of Firebird Foundation) and Alexey Kovyazin (IBSurgeon, Firebird Foundation Comittee member), then we announce elections during the Annual General Meeting.

In the end of the video Jason, as one of the founders of Firebird Foundation, remembers how everything started.

July 24: Annual General Meeting of Firebird Foundation

All members of Firebird Foundation - please participate in Annual General Meeting at July 24, 2023! We need to elect new President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer. Email was sent to ffmembers, if you did not receive it, please check your spam folder.

If you do not have access to FFMembers mail list (ffmembers at googlegroups com), please contact Alexey Kovyazin directly (ak at ib-aid com).