Firebird News

The issue tracker for the Firebird documentation has moved to Github

Denis Simonov, editor and contributor of Firebird Language Reference, and also the author of Firebird Developer Guide, has written the “Short Firebird Migration Guide To Firebird 4.0” (also available as PDF):

1. Manual installation of Firebird 40 on Windows                                             
2. Converting the database to a new format                                                   
3. Migrating database aliases                                                                
4. Migrating user list                                                                       
5. Configuring Trusted Authentication                                                        
6. Application-level incompatibilities                                                         

Well, it is not that short: 23 pages of essential information about Firebird 4 migration.
It covers migration from 3.0 and from 2.5, since many people still use 2.5, but plan to jump to 4.0 due to native replication and improved performance.
We are expecting Firebird 4 release very, very soon, so, if you are eager to be the first to try it, download the most recent snapshot, read this Migration Guide, and do the test migration!

Firebird driver for Erlang v.0.7.0 released with a few refactorings and testing done for Firebird 4.0.

Here are the commit changes between latest releases.

Firebird driver for Elixir version 0.1.1 released .

Consult the list of changes between releases here.

IBPhoenix are currently testing a version of Firebird 3.x that supports parallel backup and restore via gbak (backup and restore times are significantly reduced). If you would like to test and evaluate this version of Firebird, please contact them. https://www.ibphoenix.com/about/contact

Mark Rotteveel posted on twitter:

In case anyone is interested in the archive of Firebird mailing lists that were hosted on Yahoo Groups: …http://fb-list-archive.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com (up to the 14th of December 2019)

I’m considering the idea to also add messages after the 14th of December 2019 (when the Yahoo Groups archive closed down) and the final shutdown of Yahoo Groups at the end of 2020.

Mark Roteveel on twitter