Firebirust is a database driver implementing Firebird wire protocol in Rust
Firebirust is a database driver implementing Firebird wire protocol in Rust: It attempts to expose an interface similar to Rusqlite.
Crate link is here .
Category: General news
Firebird related news
Introducing mcpFirebird: A Model Context Protocol Project for Firebird
Great news for the Firebird community! A new project, mcpFirebird, has been launched and is now available on GitHub at https://github.com/PuroDelphi/mcpFirebird. What makes this release particularly interesting is that mcpFirebird is built as a Model Context Protocol (MCP) project, bringing a structured approach to working with Firebird databases.
For those unfamiliar, the Model Context Protocol is a framework designed to streamline interactions between applications AI and databases like Firebird. With mcpFirebird, this concept is put into action, offering a tool that could simplify development tasks while staying true to the strengths of the Firebird engine.
Blob speed improvements are coming sooner than expected!
Great news for the Firebird community!
Thanks to several of the participants of the 21st Firebird Developers Day (FDD), significant improvements have been made to blob traffic performance, especially in high-latency network environments. These enhancements were implemented by Vlad Khorsun in two phases.
The first phase, already released in Firebird 5.02, delivered remarkable performance gains of up to 49%!
The second phase, delivering up to 97% gains, was originally scheduled for Firebird 6, but it is coming much sooner, in the upcoming Firebird 5.03!
And you will not need to pay anything extra for this, since Firebird is 100% free!
Firelink plugin for Firebird
IBPhoenix is happy to announce the Firelink plugin that allows you to use ODBC drivers to connect your Firebird database with other database servers.
Read more at our website or download a trial version.
Entity Framework Core 9 provider for Firebird is ready
News via Jiří Činčura‘s blog :
“I’m excited to announce the release of Entity Framework Core 9 provider for Firebird.
Overview of all the changes can be found in here and you can get the bits from NuGet FirebirdSql.EntityFrameworkCore.Firebird.”
PyFirebirdSql 1.3.5 is released with bug fix related to protocol changes in Firebird 5.0.2
Firebird 5.0.2 for QNAP NAS
Firebird 5.0.2 for Intel (64Bit) QNAP NAS can be downloaded via the follow link
PyFirebirdSql 1.3.4 is released with a small bug fix
PyFirebirdSql 1.3.3 is released with wire encryption fixes
Free Database Workbench Lite edition available!
Upscene Productions is proud to announce the availability of a free feature limited version of Database Workbench, the Lite Edition, for personal non-commercial use. Download it here. There’s a version for Firebird and a version for MySQL.
For details on the feature differences between editions, see this feature matrix.
“Database Workbench is used by thousands of developers around the world, we’re making it available to hobbyists too”, says Martijn Tonies, founder of Upscene Productions. “Everyone can now use the free Lite Edition for personal non-commercial use.”
Database Workbench Basic and up support MySQL, MariaDB, Firebird, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, NexusDB, SQLite and InterBase, comes in multiple editions and is licensed based on selectable modules.
It includes tools for database design, database maintenance, testing, data transfer, data import & export, database migration, database compare and numerous other tools.
