Category: Firebird Releases

The first maintenance release of the Firebird 3 series is planned to be released in this month (September/2016). Firebird 3.0.1 will bring several bug fixes and performance improvements.

Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 2.5.6 — the latest minor release in the Firebird 2.5 series.

This sub-release introduces several bug fixes and a few improvements, please refer to the Release Notes for the full list of changes. Binary kits for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are immediately available for download.

Press Release: English | Russian | Brazilian Portuguese

The primary goals for Firebird 3.0 were to unify the server architecture and to improve support for SMP and multiple-core hardware platforms. Parallel objectives were to improve threading of engine processes and the options for sharing page cache across thread and connection boundaries.

Alongside these aims came new strategies to improve performance, query optimization, monitoring and scalability and to address the demand for more security options. A number of popular features were introduced into the SQL language, including the long-awaited support for the Boolean data type and the associated logical predications.

Documentation: Release Notes (PDF available), Quick Start Guide (PDF available) and other manuals.

Download it here.

A “Migration Guide to Firebird 3” eBook, written by Carlos H. Cantu, is also available.

Firebird Project announces the second Release Candidate of Firebird 3.0, the next major version of the Firebird relational database, which is now available for testing.

Dmitry Yemanov just confirmed that we can expect Firebird Release Candidate 2 to be released this month (January/16). The source code should be tagged in the next 2 weeks, and after that, it is just a matter of the documentation team finishing the release notes.