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!