Month: August 2024

Firebird Server Aug/2024 releases (5.0.1, 4.0.5 and 3.0.12) are now available for Chocolatey users at :

https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/firebird

It’s as easy as

# To install or upgrade to latest version
choco upgrade firebird -y

_{* Requires Chocolatey installed, of course.}

Firebird for SQLAlchemy 2.1 is released with a few changes merged :

• Improves development documentation (Fix [QUESTION] How can be run tests? #57)
• Adds configuration and scripts to simplify the creation of test environment (Windows).
• Adds VSCode files for easier development experience
• Better disconnect detection (Fix is_disconnect() doesn’t trigger when using FDB #38)
• Removes unused code / Update from legacy sources
• Adds SELECT … FOR UPDATE / WITH LOCK / SKIP LOCKED support
• Adds support for DESCENDING indices (Fix Support for descending indexes #6)
• Adds support for PARTIAL indices (Firebird 5.0+)
• Fix BIN_XOR operator
• Adds support for GENERATED BY DEFAULT / ALWAYS computed columns.
• Adds several new tests (source: PostgreSQL Dialect)
• Fix last failing tests (Fix Fix tests (not running, failing, hanging) #62)

New release of Firebird driver for Python V1.10.6 is available for download with a few changes :

• Fix: Big NUMERIC/DECIMAL (i.e. INT128) ARRAYs do not work.
• Fix: ARRAYs of TIME WITH TIMEZONE do not work.

New pull request merged with the following changes :

1. Added support for Django 5.0
2. Added support for partial indexes
3. Added support for window functions
4. Added support for TIME WITH TIME ZONE and TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE for TimeField and DateTimeField
5. Added support for bulk data insertion
6. Updated firebird-driver to version 1.10.4
7. Other fixes and improvements