Author: mariuz

The driver is no longer beta, and is now considered as stable for Firebird 3.0 (support for Firebird 4 is still evolving till final release).

ChangeLog:

Documentation, both in code and separate (especially Usage Guide).

Added support for new FB4 data types in ARRAY fields.

Refactoring in driver hooks.

New Cursor.call_procedure() method.

Refactoring and fixes in Server and its services.

Rust Firebird Client updated with Firebird wire protocol implemented in pure Rust and ARM support

https://crates.io/crates/rsfbclient

New Flamerobin snapshot available.

Increased Firebird 3 compatibility and a new dependency interface.

https://github.com/mariuz/flamerobin/releases/tag/0.9.3.3

Take a look, test and comment.

Rust Firebird Client that Binds to official firebird client lib

https://github.com/fernandobatels/rsfbclient

The aim of these examples is to copy as closely as possible the equivalent C++ examples. The primary intention is to demonstrate how to make calls to the new Firebird OO API. For this reason they should not be considered examples of best practice.

Another alternative is MWA Software’s Firebird Pascal Interface https://www.mwasoftware.co.uk/fb-pascal-api

There is now an official preview release – v0.5.0 – available on PyPI:
https://pypi.org/project/firebird-driver/

All core driver functionality works, except handling of limbo
transactions due to error discovered in Firebird (should be fixed in
soon to be released Firebird 3.0.6).

This preview version was released because the driver architecture is
evolving rapidly, and I would like get some feedback before the initial
release planned for end of June.

Some important notes about the driver architecture:

1. It uses namespace package “firebird”, and the driver is distributed
   as “firebird.driver” package. There are other packages that share the
   same namespace: “firebird.base” and “firebird.butler”. In future I’d
   like introduce “firebird.lib” package for extension libraries (former
   schema, monitor and other extension modules in FDB).
2. Although the initial driver design was close to FDB, there are
   significant differences and the driver architecture and API will diverge
   further from FDB or KInterbasDB. The sole backward “compatibility” is
   defined as compliance to Python DB API 2.0. So the new driver is not and
   will not be a drop-in replacement for FDB.

Here are some main decisions related to implementation and architecture:

Django-Firebird changes : The stable version corresponds with django 2.2 and lives into stable/2.2.x branch. The current master branch of this repository is being developed under django 3.0.x.

django-firebird 2.2a1 is also published to pypi https://pypi.org/project/django-firebird/2.2a1/

Firebird 2.5 Language Reference is Migrated to AsciiDoc
https://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/html/en/refdocs/fblangref25/firebird-25-language-reference.html

MWA Software is pleased to announce that release 2.3.4 of IBX for Lazarus is now available for download from https://mwasoftware.co.uk/ibx.

This is the first update in over a year and provides a consolidated set of minor bug fixes. The changelog for IBX itself is available from here and the changelog for the Firebird Pascal API is available from here.

The next release of IBX should be available in the near future and will focus on support for the forthcoming Firebird 4. It will provide support for the new Firebird data types including TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE and extended precision numerics (DecFloat).