Category: General news

Firebird Project is glad to announce the general availability of Firebird ODBC driver version 3.0. New driver is build on top the new Firebird client API, and can work with Firebird clients from versions 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0.

Download new driver binaries and sources from Firebird ODBC Github (and don’t forget to give a star to the project)!

This version is a rework of v2 to implement modern Firebird Object-Oriented API inside an ODBC driver. In addition it contains a fixpack for many known issues, see ChangeLog_v3.0 for details.

Please note that v3.0 driver is intended to work only with Firebird clients from version 3.0 and later (i.e., 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 at the moment). If you have fbclient.dll from 2.5 or some older version, it is incompatible.

You can see more details here: https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird-odbc-driver/wiki

Please report all issues to https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird-odbc-driver/issues

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Firebird 3.0.12 / 4.0.5 / 5.0.1 for Intel QNAP NAS can be downloaded via the follow link

https://fbm.gksoft.ch/Download.html

MWA Software is pleased to announce the release of version 2.7.0 of IBX for Lazarus. This is primarily a maintenance release but does contain some important future proofing. All users are recommended to upgrade to this version.

In this release:

• Firebird 5 compatibility checked
• Lazarus 3.4 compatibility checked
• Internal changes necessary to correctly function with FPC 3.3.1 (development version) and later.
• Dynamic Database Controls Direct Dependency on IBX  removed and replaced with corba interfaces.
• Various bug fixes – see changelogs of IBX and the Firebird Pascal Interface for details.

The changes to the Dynamic Database Controls are intended to enable their use with database drivers other than IBX. Other developers are encourage to support the corba interfaces defined in their support so that their full functionality is available generally. See the new document “DynamicDatabaseControls.pdf” for further information.

https://www.mwasoftware.co.uk/ibx

Rust Firebird Client updated to v0.25 with a few features and fixes :

Fixed Rust 1.18.0 compatibility issues by @Noriebalbinot in #158 .

Crates.io link is here .

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

New release of Firebird driver for Python V1.10.5 is available for download with a few changes :

Unregistered bug: DECFLOAT ARRAYs do not work.