Firebird News

The Firebird JDBC team is happy to announce the release of Jaybird 3.0.2.

Jaybird 3.0.2 contains the following fixes and changes:

• Fixed: Specifying an unknown Java character set in connection property charSet or localEncoding was handled as if no connection character set had been specified, now we throw an exception that the character set is unknown. (JDBC-498)
• Changed: Specifying a connection character set is no longer required, and will now default to NONE again, if system property org.firebirdsql.jdbc.defaultConnectionEncoding is not specified. (JDBC-502)

See the Jaybird 3.0.2 release notes for more information. Jaybird 3.0.2 can be downloaded from the JDBC Driver page.

Firebird update to 2.5.7 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 6 with Security fix for CVE-2017-6369

FYI: The status of the firebird3.0 source package
in Debian’s testing distribution has changed.

Previous version: 3.0.2.32703.ds4-4
Current version: 3.0.2.32703.ds4-9

Here is the debian changelog

Jiří Činčura is getting closer to Version 1 for Firebird External engine written in C# 7

You can load any .NET code in FbNetExternalEngine also as Proof Of Concept you can also
load Firebird Embedded inside that in server (Firebird inside Firebird in DotNet External Engine).

There is an interesting discussion on firebird-devel about changing the hash function in Firebird (related to CORE-4436)