Short overview of Firebird events in 2021

From all of us at Firebird Project, we'd like to wish you a safe and happy holiday season and a peaceful and prosperous new year!

And here is a short overview of Firebird events in 2021.

Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 4.0.1

Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 4.0.1 — the first point release in the Firebird 4.0 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.

Flamerobin 0.9.3.11 Snapshot released with new Firebird 4 features and fixes

 Flamerobin 0.9.3.11 Snapshot released with new firebird 4 features and fixes :

• Fixed timestamp problem with Fb4 : PR #224
• Fixed problems with numeric types
• Fix encoding at blob editor
• Fix UDF property loading at Fb<=2.5
• Implementing Fb4 datatypes by @andy-123( in progress) : PR #223 Implement time zone support for firebird 4

Leaving MySQL - blog post by long-term MySQL team member Steinar H. Gunderson

Leaving MySQL - blog post by long-term MySQL team member Steinar H. Gunderson

with discussions on Hacker News :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29455852

and on reddit : https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ra81ki/leaving_mysql/