Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 2.5.8 — the latest minor release in the Firebird 2.5 series.

This sub-release introduces several bug fixes and a few improvements, please refer to the Release Notes for the full list of changes. Binary kits for Windows and Linux on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are immediately available for download. Binary kits for Mac OS X will follow shortly.

The Firebird JDBC team is happy to announce the release of Jaybird 3.0.3 and Jaybird 2.2.14.

Jaybird 3.0.3 contains the following fixes and changes:

• Fixed: Some older versions of JBoss would throw an java.lang.IllegalStateException: Can't overwrite cause when FBResourceException initialised its exception cause. (JDBC-512)
• Improved: Added explicit Automatic-Module-Name: org.firebirdsql.jaybird to manifest for forwards compatibility with Java 9 modularization. (JDBC-511)

See the Jaybird 3.0.3 release notes for more information. Jaybird 3.0.3 can be downloaded from the JDBC Driver page.

Jaybird 2.2.14 contains the following fixes and changes:

• Fixed: FBTraceManager.loadConfigurationFromFile strips line breaks (JDBC-493)
• Improved: Added explicit Automatic-Module-Name: org.firebirdsql.jaybird to manifest for forwards compatibility with Java 9 modularization. (JDBC-511)

See the Jaybird 2.2.14 release notes for more information. Jaybird 2.2.14 can be downloaded from the JDBC Driver page.

Merry Christmas to all Firebird users and developers! Our best wishes of success for you on this New Year 2018!