New FirebirdSQL engine feature : Range-based FOR statement

 Here is the description : 

"The range-based FOR statement is used to iterate over a range of numeric values. The iteration is performed in

increasing order when used with TO clause and in decreasing order when used with DOWNTO clause"

Discussion on the Firebird-devel is here

Firebird 5.0.2 minor release is available

Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 5.0.2 — the latest minor release in the Firebird 5.0 series.

This minor release offers bug fixes as well as a few improvements, please refer to the Release Notes for the full list of changes.

Binary kits for Windows, Linux, MacOS and Android platforms are immediately available for download.

Firebird Docker Images Now Under the Firebird Organization

We are pleased to announce the successful migration of Firebird Docker images to their new home:

https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird-docker

The images are now published on Docker Hub at

https://hub.docker.com/r/firebirdsql/firebird

Thanks to Adriano dos Santos Fernandes for his invaluable contributions and improvements throughout this process.

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.

Read the rest of the official announcement

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

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 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.