Accordingly to its release lifetime policy, Firebird Project notifies that the Firebird v2.0 series has reached its end of life and thus will not be maintained anymore. The last official release in this series, Firebird 2.0.7, which has been announced this year, will be available from the “discontinued” section of the download area.
The Firebird roadmap is updated , we are waiting for Firebird 3.0.x Alpha 🙂
Firebird V2.0.7 has been released.
This sub-release 2.0.7, likely to be the last for the 2.0-series, does not add any new functionality to the database engine. It incorporates a number of bug fixes that did not make it into the v.2.0.6 sub-release in June 2010 or have been backported from subsequent 2.1.x and 2.5.x releases.
This release 2.0.x contains a large number of new features compared with 1.5.x, including derived tables, support for Execute Block, increased table sizes, new improved index code (the 252-byte index length limit is no longer applicable), expression indices, numerous optimiser improvements, enhanced security features, support for on-line incremental backups along with numerous other improvements and bug fixes.
Firebird V2.0.5 Classic for Solaris 10 (Sparc) is available for download. Thanks to Tsutomu Hayashi
Here is an guide for installing firebird 2.0.3 on debian stable (etch )
it is recommended to use lenny where firebird package is more up to date or to use the latest firebird 2.0.5 release
ps: i will notify Damyan to update the package
There was no good documentation [how to do it] but in fact was realy easy.
The Firebird Team is pleased to offer the Linux, Win32 and MacOSX release candidate kits for Firebird 2.0.5. Please refer to the Bug Fixes chapter of the release notes, test it well and report your experiences (good or bad) to the firebird-devel list.
Firebird 2.0.4 is now on apple.com page
