Category: Tools & Products releases

Announcements of new Firebird related products, or new releases.

RED EXPERT 2025.05 HAS BEEN RELEASED

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New version of Red Expert 2025.05 is available.

What’s new?

Added:

  1. OCTETS character set support
  2. Display UUID in hexadecimal
  3. Warning about incompatible ODS server and DB versions
  4. JetBrains Mono font for query editor

Fixed:

  1. Editing the scale of columns with NUMERIC and DECIMAL types
  2. Working with different file encodings in the query editor
  3. Saving the size and location on the screen
  4. Changing editor fonts in settings
  5. TABs to spaces converting
  6. Restarting application if there is unsaved data
  7. Editing tablespaces with comments
  8. Creating table with domain columns
  9. English documentation opening
  10. Copying a result set with NULL values to the clipboard
  11. Password field displaying in classic theme
  12. Displaying angle brackets in the SQL script difference pane
  13. Query editor tabs behavior on establishing/releasing DB connection
  14. SQL header generation when retrieving database metadata
  15. Deleting table records with the using of dialog window

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Jaybird 6.0.2 and Jaybird 5.0.8 released

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We are happy to announce the release of Jaybird 6.0.2 and Jaybird 5.0.8. Both releases provide support for upcoming Firebird 5.0.3 inline blobs, and some other improvements.

For more information on inline blobs, for Firebird 5.0.3 and higher, see also New Article: Data access methods used in Firebird.

Changes

The following was fixed or changed since Jaybird 6.0.1 / Jaybird 5.0.7:

  • Improvement: added authPlugins property on FBManager (#866 / #865)
  • Improvement: increased default and maximum SQL info sizes used for retrieving statement information like columns, parameters and plan information (#869 / #868)
  • Improvement: backported inline blob support (Firebird 5.0.3 and higher) from Jaybird 7 (#870 / #871)
  • Improvement: The time zone mapping was updated (#874 / #875)

Bug reports about undocumented changes in behavior are appreciated. Feedback can be sent to Firebird-java or reported on the issue tracker https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/jaybird/issues.

Jaybird 6.0.2

Jaybird 6 supports Firebird 3.0 and higher, on Java 17, Java 21, and Java 24.

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Jaybird 5.0.8

Jaybird 5 supports Firebird 2.5 and higher, on Java 8, Java 11, Java 17, Java 21, and Java 24 (support for Java 11 and higher using the Java 11 version of the driver). 

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RED EXPERT 2025.04 HAS BEEN RELEASED

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New version of Red Expert 2025.04 is available.

What’s new?

Added:

  1. Displaying the execution time of each query in the editor
  2. A dialog informing about new version of the application
  3. Ability to select driver when executing SQL script from a file
  4. Ability to open the file location from the editor

Fixed:

  1. Memory leaks when using the application for long time
  2. Scaling the application window on HiDPI monitors
  3. Adding drivers for connection
  4. Creating constraints using TABLESPACE
  5. Creating constraints using “USING <index>”
  6. Editing tablespaces
  7. Using negative values in fields with DOUBLE PRECISION type
  8. Activity of editor toolbar buttons after changing it in the settings
  9. Switching between executed requests in the editor
  10. Search for nodes by name in the connection tree

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Database Workbench 6.7.0 released

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Upscene Productions is proud to announce the availability of the next release of the popular multi-DBMS development tool:

” Database Workbench 6.7.0″

We recently added SQLite support, this release adds support for viewing vector embeddings in PostgreSQL, adds new functionality to create foreign key constraints even faster and fixes bugs in the Firebird, SQLite and InterBase modules.

    Database Workbench 6 comes in 3 different editions with different pricing models, there’s always a version that suits you! There’s also free Lite Editions available for Firebird and MySQL.

    Jaybird 6.0.1 and Jaybird 5.0.7 released

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    We are happy to announce the release of Jaybird 6.0.1 and Jaybird 5.0.7. Both releases provide a number of performance improvements to blob handling, and some bug fixes.

    We plan to offer more blob performance improvements in upcoming releases of Jaybird 5 and 6, for Firebird 5.0.3 and higher (see also New Article: Data access methods used in Firebird).

    Jaybird 6.0.1

    The following was fixed or changed since Jaybird 6.0.0:

    • Improvement: backported deferred blob open optimization from Jaybird 7 (#842)
    • Fixed: NullPointerException in getGeneratedKeys() with blob columns after (auto)commit (#846)
    • Fixed: Fetch response with status=0 (FETCH_OK) and count=0 was logged on DEBUG as an unexpected response (#848)
    • Improvement: backported fetching all known blob info items on open from Jaybird 7 (#852)
    • Dependency update: updated net.java.dev.jna:jna-jpms from 5.16.0 to 5.17.0 (used by jaybird-native) (#854)
    • Dependency update: updated org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk18on from 1.79 to 1.80 (used by chacha64-plugin) (#856)

    Jaybird 6 supports Firebird 3.0 and higher, on Java 17, Java 21, and Java 24.

    Bug reports about undocumented changes in behavior are appreciated. Feedback can be sent to Firebird-java or reported on the issue tracker https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/jaybird/issues.

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    Jaybird 5.0.7

    The following has been changed or fixed since Jaybird 5.0.6:

    • Improvement: backported deferred blob open optimization from Jaybird 7 (#841)
    • Fixed: NullPointerException in getGeneratedKeys() with blob columns after (auto)commit (#846)
    • Fixed: Fetch response with status=0 (FETCH_OK) and count=0 was logged on DEBUG as an unexpected response (#848)
    • Improvement: backported performance improvements for blob reading and writing from Jaybird 6 (#850)
    • Improvement: backported fetching all known blob info items on open from Jaybird 7 (#852)
    • Dependency update: updated net.java.dev.jna:jna-jpms from 5.15.0 to 5.17.0 (used by native and embedded protocols) (#855)

    Jaybird 5 supports Firebird 2.5 and higher, on Java 8, Java 11, Java 17, Java 21, and Java 24 (support for Java 11 and higher using the Java 11 version of the driver).

    Bug reports about undocumented changes in behavior are appreciated. Feedback can be sent to Firebird-java or reported on the issue tracker https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/jaybird/issues.

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    New release of Advanced Data Generator

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    Upscene Productions is happy to announce the next version of their test data generator tool:

    “Advanced Data Generator 4.2.0”

    A fast test-data generator tool that comes with a library of real-life data, can generate data to your database,
    script or data files, many filling options, templates and much more.

    Data settings
    Generate JSON data files
    Sample generated data

    Free Database Workbench Lite edition available!

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    Upscene Productions is proud to announce the availability of a free feature limited version of Database Workbench, the Lite Edition, for personal non-commercial use. Download it here. There’s a version for Firebird and a version for MySQL.

    For details on the feature differences between editions, see this feature matrix.

    “Database Workbench is used by thousands of developers around the world, we’re making it available to hobbyists too”, says Martijn Tonies, founder of Upscene Productions. “Everyone can now use the free Lite Edition for personal non-commercial use.”

    Database Workbench Basic and up support MySQL, MariaDB, Firebird, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, NexusDB, SQLite and InterBase, comes in multiple editions and is licensed based on selectable modules.

    It includes tools for database design, database maintenance, testing, data transfer, data import & export, database migration, database compare and numerous other tools.

    RED EXPERT 2025.01 HAS BEEN RELEASED

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    New version of Red Expert 2025.01 is available.

    What’s new?

    • Updated the list of available application themes based on the survey results.
    • Stopped support of 32-bit Windows (x86) operating systems.

    Improved:

    1. Display application fonts in new themes
    2. Copying field names with data types from a Result Set
    3. Data view panel interface for BLOBs that not available for editing

    Fixed:

    1. Trace parsing
    2. Interacting with Red Database 2.6 and Firebird 2 connections
    3. Processing of connection parameters when changing the interface language
    4. Readability of selected lines on the “Analyze” tab in the Trace Manager
    5. Applying old settings, which require restarting the application, during upgrade
    6. Customizing date and time patterns
    7. Adding a comment to JOB
    8. Behavior of the “Wrap lines” checkbox on the BLOB data view panel
    9. Confirmation dialog disappearing when altering the database object
    10. Dialog closing after creating database objects
    11. Applying and restoring settings
    12. Various exceptions occurred by the data export
    13. Displayed data type size in the results of the SELECT query

    In previous versions, Portuguese language support was added. We want to make the app better, so we welcome comments from native speakers.

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    FBPC 1.0.3 is released

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    A new version of Performance Comparer for Firebird (FBPC) is now available. Version 1.0.3 has the following changes:

    1. Fixed some parameters data type identifying logic (the traceapi writes the params data types based on their internal field type, not the declared type)
    2. The statement’s grid wasn’t showing a value when the statement execution time was below 1ms
    3. Added some error handling during the statements execution
    4. Now any errors during the execution of an statement will be logged in the errors.log file (in the application directory)

    FBPC is a free tool that can help people to compare the performance of real life SQL statements between two Firebird versions, or even between the same Firebird version but with different configurations in firebird.conf.

    RED EXPERT 2024.12 HAS BEEN RELEASED

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    New version of Red Expert 2024.12 is available.

    What’s new?

    Added:

    1. Formatting numbers for table statistics
    2. Copying formatted column names

    Improved:

    1. The amount of memory required for audit analysis has been reduced
    2. Exporting data with BLOB SUB_TYPE TEXT type now does not require mandatory file specification for exported blobs

    Fixed:

    1. Recalculation of index selectivity
    2. Parsing of the nested procedures
    3. Parsing of the procedure cursors
    4. Parsing of the procedure variables with NCHAR, REAL, INT, LONG FLOAT and other types
    5. Generating SQL statements for variables with COLLATE
    6. Display SQL queries containing special characters on the “Analyze” tab in the Trace Manager
    7. Increased CPU load after repeated opening of the search window in the Query Editor
    8. Mismatch between the versions of the client library and driver used for native connection

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