Here is is howto upgrade to the new FDB 0.8.0 driver

 The new driver is released FDB release 0.8.0 is out: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb/0.8.0
 Highlights for this release:
 Support for Firebird Event Notifications (see KInterbasDB documentation for details)
 And as always, some bugs fixed.
 Target for next version: stream BLOB support (necessary for big BLOBs)
 Here is howto update it in ubuntu/debian , i love pip

sudo pip install --upgrade fdb 
Downloading/unpacking fdb
  Downloading fdb-0.8.0.tar.gz (164Kb): 164Kb downloaded
  Running setup.py egg_info for package fdb
    
Installing collected packages: fdb
  Found existing installation: fdb 0.7.2
    Uninstalling fdb:
      Successfully uninstalled fdb
  Running setup.py install for fdb
    
Successfully installed fdb
Cleaning up...