Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 5.0 — the latest major release of the Firebird relational database.
All the best for Firebird developers and users in 2024!
Firebird Project announces the second Release Candidate of Firebird 5.0, the next major version of the Firebird relational database, which is now available for testing on all supported platforms (Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android).
The new version of Firebird ODBC driver is in Beta stage now. Version 3.0.0 Beta is available for testing on Windows. It works only with Firebird 3+, and requires fbclient.dll from Firebird 3 or above. Please download, test, and report any issues!
We are happy to announce the release of Jaybird 5.0.3 and Jaybird 4.0.10.
The short video message from President Of Firebird Foundation: why is it important to migrate to Firebird 5?
In the 3d part of "Detailed New Features in Firebird 5" we will consider clause SKIP LOCKED in more details, with simulation script in Python and test database.
In the 2nd part of the "Detailed New Features of Firebird 5" we are explaining details of new SQL commands and enhancements in Firebird 5.
Since Firebird 5.0 release is very close, it is a good time to start learning new features of Firebird 5. With this video and article we start series of detailed materials about Firebird 5, and part 1 is devoted to the optimizer.
Martin Koditz had translated the document “Writing Firebird UDRs in Pascal” by Denis Simonov into English.