Jaybird 5.0.3 and 4.0.10 released

We are happy to announce the release of Jaybird 5.0.3 and Jaybird 4.0.10.

With this release, Jaybird 4 is end-of-life. We recommend upgrading to Jaybird 5.

Jaybird 5.0.3

The following has been changed or fixed since Jaybird 5.0.2:

Improvement: Do not reject attempts to read blob id 0 — backported from Jaybird 6 (#765)
Fixed: on CHAR fields, a too short value could be returned if the string contained one or more codepoints represented by surrogate pairs and the string length in char exceeded the maximum string length — backported from Jaybird 6 (#770)
Fixed: CallableStatement.getXXX(String) could return value from wrong column — backported from Jaybird 6 (#772)
Updated: error messages updated from Firebird 5.0.0.1272

Jaybird 5 supports Firebird 2.5 and higher, on Java 8, 11, 17, and 21 (support for Java 11 and higher using the Java 11 version of the driver).

Jaybird 4.0.10 is the last release of Jaybird 4, and Jaybird 4 is now end-of-life. We recommend upgrading to Jaybird 5.

The following has been changed or fixed since Jaybird 4.0.9

Fixed: Reconnect transaction with a transaction id exceeding 0x7FFF_FFFF did not work (#734)
Fixed: CallableStatement.getXXX(String) could return value from wrong column — backported from Jaybird 6 (#773)
Updated: error messages updated from Firebird 5.0.0.1272

Jaybird 4 supports Firebird 2.5 and higher, on Java 7, 8, 11, 17, and 21 (support for Java 11 and higher using the Java 11 version of the driver).