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.