Category: General news
Firebird related news
IBProvider News
Hello Everyone,
We are released new updates for our products.
IBProvider v5.16
- Added OLE DB property to get query plan – «IBP:StmtInfo.Plan»
LCPI ADO.NET Data Provider for OLE DB v1.18
- Added a property OleDbCommand::Properties, which provides the access to OLE DB command properties.
- Added an example «Getting statement plan».
- Added an example «Using VBScript for database operations».
- The source code for all examples is uploaded to GitHub.
Full news text: https://www.ibprovider.com/eng/news/n_200421.html
Kind Regards, IBProvider Team.
LibreOffice 6.4.3 available for download
The Document Foundation announces the availability of LibreOffice 6.4.3, the 3rd minor release of the LibreOffice 6.4 family, targeted at technology enthusiasts and power users. LibreOffice 6.4.3 includes several bug fixes and improvements to document compatibility.
Firebird Editor Pro
A new (free) Firebird administration tool was released recently. Take a look at it and report your impressions in the comments below. If you enjoy, you may help the author with donations.
![](https://www.texteditor.pro/firebird/assets/FirebirdEditorPro.png)
Looks like the same author also develops an interesting (free) text editor. You can take a look on that too.
Compiling Flamerobin under Mac OS
Updated instructions are now here
https://github.com/mariuz/flamerobin/blob/master/BUILD.txt#L182
Thanks to Tomas Dvorak
Real world experience with FbNetExternalEngine performance and code structure
I’m now going through piece of SQL code that contains a lot of stored procedures from over the years and lately also functions (in last year the migration to Firebird 3 really began) and looking into the code to identify functions and procedures to start the rewriting with using FbNetExternalEngine. I’m at the beginning, but I have some interesting piece I’d like to show.
FbNetExternalEngine 4.0 released – .NET Core support and performance
FbNetExternalEngine version 4.0 is finally here. This version contains one significant feature and that’s migration to .NET Core.
IBProvider – stay home and play with the code
Without many words.
Information only for visitors to this resource.
90% discount on the “IBProvider Single Developer License (32/64 bit)” (1 year free updates).
From today until April 30, 2020.
Coupon code: STAYHOME-2020-04
Links to the order pages: ShareIt, PayProGlobal.
We hope our “toy” will help you pass the time and avoid real troubles.
Kind Regards, IBProvider Team.
IBProvider News
Hello All,
We have improved the installer of our ADO.NET provider (v1.17.0.4032 R1). Now it can install and uninstall VSIX packages with DDEX providers himself.
![](https://www.ibprovider.com/site-data/m01/eng/i/news/200326/n_2020_03_26--lcpi_data_oledb_installer--install_vsix-2.png)
We hope it saves you tons of time.
Full news text: https://www.ibprovider.com/eng/news/n_200326.html
Kind Regards, IBProvider Team.
Jaybird 4.0.0 released
We are happy to announce the first release of Jaybird 4.
Jaybird 4 is – compared to Jaybird 3 – an incremental release that builds on the foundations of Jaybird 3. The focus of this release has been on further improving JDBC support and adding support for the new data types and features of Firebird 4.
The main new features are:
- Wire encryption support (backported to Jaybird 3.0.4)
- Database encryption support (backported to Jaybird 3.0.4)
- Wire compression support
- Authentication plugin improvements
- Firebird 4 data type bind configuration support (since Jaybird 4.0.0-beta-2)
- Firebird 4 DECFLOAT support
- Firebird 4 extended numeric precision support
- Firebird 4 time zone support
- Firebird 4 statement timeout support (since Jaybird 4.0.0-beta-2)
- JDBC RowId support
- DatabaseMetaData getPseudoColumns implemented
- DatabaseMetaData getVersionColumns implemented
- DatabaseMetaData getFunctions implemented (since Jaybird 4.0.0-beta-2)
- DatabaseMetaData getFunctionColumns implemented (since Jaybird 4.0.0-beta-2)
- Improved JDBC function escape support
- New JDBC protocol prefix jdbc:firebird:
- URL encoding in query part of JDBC URL (backported to Jaybird 3.0.9)
- Generated keys support improvements
- Operation monitoring
See also: