#Perl Firebird driver DBD-Firebird 1.11 is released with utf-8 and other bugfixes

On the behalf of the developers and contributors team, I’m pleased to announce that DBD::Firebird v1.11 , a DBI driver for the Firebird RDBMS server is released.

This release brings many changes and bugfixes .

• Test::Exception is required
• On Freebsd Threaded perl is required
• Test database to use UTF8 charset and enable UTF8 for the connection
• Fix CHAR lenght when using multi-byte character set Fixes #32 (RT#76506)
• Additional debug when finishing already finished statement
• Avoid double destroying of statement in auto-commit mode with DDL Fixes Github Issue #30 (RT#72946)

The development is done on GitHub and the mailing list is here

Thank you