Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 3.0.6

Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 3.0.6 — the 6th point release in the Firebird 3.0 series.

This sub-release offers many bug fixes and also adds a few improvements, please refer to the Release Notes for the full list of changes.
Binary kits for Windows, Linux and Android platforms are immediately available for download, Mac OS packages will follow shortly.

Mark Rotteveel and documentation team migrated the first documents to asciidoc

Mark Rotteveel and documentation team migrated the first documents to asciidoc

– Docbuilding Howto
https://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/html/en/firebirddocs/docbuildhowto/firebird-docbuilding-howto.html

– Docwriting Guide
https://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/html/en/firebirddocs/docwritehowto/firebird-docwriting-guide.html

ps: Since May/June 2020, the Firebird documentation project has switched to AsciiDoc for its documentation. This section gives a short overview how AsciiDoc is used by the project.

Firebird 4.0 Beta 2 release is available for testing

Firebird Project announces the second (and last) Beta release of Firebird 4.0, the next major version of the Firebird relational database, which is now available for testing on Windows and Linux platforms.

This Beta release arrives with features and improvements already implemented by the Firebird development team, as well as with countless bugfixes. 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.

Beta releases are not encouraged for production usage or any other goals that require a stable system. They are, however, recommended for those users who want to help in identifying issues and bottlenecks thus allowing to progress faster through the Beta/RC stages towards the final release.

Please read the Release Notes carefully before installing and testing this Beta release.

Compiling Flamerobin under Mac OS latest version

Updated instructions are now here
https://github.com/mariuz/flamerobin/blob/master/BUILD.txt#L182

Thanks to Tomas Dvorak

We are happy to announce the first release of Jaybird 4.

We are happy to announce the first release of Jaybird 4.

Jaybird 4 is – compared to Jaybird 3 – an incremental release that builds on the foundations of Jaybird 3.
The focus of this release has been on further improving JDBC support and adding support for the new data types and features of Firebird 4.


The main new features are:

• Wire encryption support (backported to Jaybird 3.0.4)
• Database encryption support (backported to Jaybird 3.0.4)
• Wire compression support
• Authentication plugin improvements
• Firebird 4 data type bind configuration support (since Jaybird 4.0.0-beta-2)
• Firebird 4 DECFLOAT support
• Firebird 4 extended numeric precision support
• Firebird 4 time zone support
• Firebird 4 statement timeout support (since Jaybird 4.0.0-beta-2)
• JDBC RowId support
• DatabaseMetaData getPseudoColumns implemented
• DatabaseMetaData getVersionColumns implemented
• DatabaseMetaData getFunctions implemented (since Jaybird 4.0.0-beta-2)
• DatabaseMetaData getFunctionColumns implemented (since Jaybird 4.0.0-beta-2)
• Improved JDBC function escape support
• New JDBC protocol prefix jdbc:firebird:
• URL encoding in query part of JDBC URL (backported to Jaybird 3.0.9)
• Generated keys support improvements
• Operation monitoring

See also:

• Jaybird 4.0.0 release notes
• Jaybird downloads
• Instructions for Maven

Firebird 3.0.5 sub-release is available

Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 3.0.5 — the 5th point release in the Firebird 3.0 series.

This sub-release offers many bug fixes and also adds a few improvements, please refer to the Release Notes for the full list of changes.
Binary kits for Windows and Linux platforms are immediately available for download, Android and Mac OS packages will follow shortly.

Firebird high-level native client for Node.js / TypeScript updated to v2.1.0

Firebird high-level native client for Node.js / TypeScript updated to v2.1.0 with a few changes .

Feature #30 - Add methods executeReturningAsObject and fetchAsObject to return records as objects instead of arrays.
Feature #43 - Add Statement.columnLabels property.

Wire encryption plugin using chacha cypher in Firebird master branch

AlexPeshkoff Added wire crypt plugin using ChaCha cipher Co-authored-by: Vlad Khorsun

Here is the pull request #244

SHA-256 in Firebird 3.0.x

Thanks to contributions from Alex Peshkov and Tony Whyman in Firebird 3.0.4

SHA-256 message digest may be used instead of SHA-1 for generating the client proof:

https://firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/release_notes/html/en/3_0/rnfb30-security-new-authentication.html#rnfb30-security-srp-patch304

Here is the related patch and proposed fix : CORE-5788