We've identified an issue where the latest libpthread library versions are not compatible with Firebird 2.5 (including the latest available release of vanilla version 2.5.9.27139). To prevent any impact on Firebird 2.5, please follow the guidance provided below. Please note that version 2.5 is discontinued and there will be no fix for it in vanilla version.
The Firebird Technical Task Group has wrapped up its meeting, and we're excited to share the roadmap for the upcoming version 6. There are so many features planned: schemas, JSON, tablespaces, new SQLs, and more.
We are happy to announce the release of Jaybird 5.0.4.
The Firebird Project is launching the Technical Task Group meeting next week, where its developers and sponsors will plan the future of Firebird, including version 6. Become a sponsor and participate!
The Firebird ODBC driver is in beta testing, with version 3.0.0.8 available. You can download it and test how well it works with Power BI and other common tools which use ODBC. Please send feedback to Github Issues of Firebird ODBC!
Collection of one-step Firebird installation scripts for Linux distributions. The scripts download necessary libraries, configure OS and download and install Firebird, versions 5.0, 4.0, 3.0, 2.5. The first portion is for CentOS 9, 8, 7 and Ubuntu 24 and 22. More to come!
Version 1.3 of free open source UDR library for full text seach queries is released, There were few changes.
Perl extension DBD::Firebird version 1.38 is released with quite a few changes if you compare with preovious announcement
This is a Kotlin Multiplatform project for working with a Firebird SQL database.
In this video, we explore two case studies of successful migrations involving large Firebird databases, one at 1.5TB and the other at 810GB.