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Firebird related news
Rust Firebird Client updated to v0.22.0 with a few features
Erlang Firebird client library : efirebirdsql 0.9.2 is released
PHP Firebird driver php-firebird 3.0.1 is released
Jaybird 5.0.0-beta-1 released for testing
This version is provided for testing purposes only. We’d appreciate your feedback, but we’d like to emphasize that this version is not intended for production.
Jaybird 5 is – from a JDBC perspective – an incremental change from Jaybird 4. However, internally, Jaybird underwent some major changes, the biggest was the removal of JCA (Java Connector Architecture) support.
The major changes and new features in Jaybird 5 are:
- Java 7 support dropped
- Java Connector Architecture (JCA) support removed
- ChaCha wire protocol encryption support (Java 11 and higher only)
- Changes to properties
- Unification of database and service addressing
- Changes to JDBC URL syntax
- Removal of LOCAL protocol implementation
- Stream blobs are now the default
- New parser for generated keys handling (back-ported to Jaybird 4.0.8)
- Firebird 4.0 server-side batch updates
- Firebird 5.0 multi-row RETURNING support
- Firebird Embedded locator service provider (experimental)
- Table statistics of a connection (experimental)
Upgrading from Jaybird 4 to 5 should be simple, but please make sure to read Compatibility changes before using Jaybird 5. See also Upgrading from Jaybird 4 to Jaybird 5.
Bug reports about undocumented changes in behavior are appreciated. Feedback can be sent to the Firebird-java mailing list or reported on the issue tracker https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/jaybird/issues.
See also the full Jaybird 5.0.0-beta-1 release notes.
Database .NET v35 released
fish’s dotNET is proud to announce version 35.0 of Database .NET, an intuitive database management tool for Firebird and more RDBMS.
With it you can easily and intuitive manage your Firebird databases (v1.5~4.0).
It is a free, for non-commercial use, a single executable file without installation and compatible with latest Windows platforms.
See ChangeLog for a complete list of changes, bug fixes and acknowledgement.
Features: https://fishcodelib.com/Database_Features.htm
Download: https://fishcodelib.com/Database.htm
firebird_fdw 1.3.0 released
firebird_fdw is now available as version 1.3.0.
This release provides following new features:
- support for PostgreSQL 15
- basic support for TRUNCATE (PostgreSQL 14 and later)
- support for batch inserts via COPY (PostgreSQL 14 and later)
and some improvements for existing functionality:
- improved mapping of PostgreSQL server encodings to Firebird
- various fixes and improvements for IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA
This release requires Firebird API wrapper libfq version 0.5.0 or later.
For more details, see: firebird_fdw 1.3.0 released.
Real-time Firebird – Monitor for Firebird – Server 2.5 / 3.0 / 4.0
A new version is available V1.5.5.160
Visit our Homepage and download the Trialversion:
New release of Firebird driver for Python V1.8.0 is available
New release of Firebird driver for Python V1.8.0 is available for download with a few changes.
- New: Server.readline_timed method.
Improved Hibernate ORM Firebird dialect support
Mark Rotteveel created a Ticket and Pull Request for Hibernate ORM to improve Firebird dialect with fixes to a number of issues.
Improve Firebird dialect to fix a number of issues:
- Typing of aggregates when using parameters
- Add cast to AVG of integral type
- Quote identifiers starting with an underscore
- Correct inverted version check for Boolean support
- Add or update various supports methods to return correct information
- Render datetime literals without using JDBC escape
- Fix rendering of literals with offset at offset 00:00
- Fix rendering of create index statement
- Fix rendering of CASE where all when clauses have a parameter to identify type of result
- Add missing rendering of virtual columns to select list
- Fix rendering of IN against a parameter
Updated a number of tests so they are either passing for Firebird, or ignored for Firebird.