At June 17, 2023, in the city of Palhoça - Santa Catarina, Brazil, will take place seminar "Lançamento do Firebird 5", devoted to the migration, with the special focus on Firebird 5 features. Seminar is organized by IBSurgeon and MeuQueridoFirebirdSQL. The seminar will be in Portuguese.

Topics:

1. The most common fears of the migration which can be resolved literally in 1 day.
2. How to choose the best migration strategy for your company (when migrate, to what version, how to estimate pros and contras. Why Firebird 5 is the best point to start migration from old versions).
3. The most common issues which occur during the migration (since version 2.1)
4. Best strategies for the migration in hard cases: very big databases and hundreds of installations
5. Practical demonstration of sample migration scripts.
6. Questions&Answers sessions

All detailes are available on the page of the event.

Em Português

No dia 17 de junho de 2023, na cidade de Palhoça - Santa Catarina, Brasil, acontecerá o evento presencial "Lançamento do Firebird 5", dedicado à migração, com foco especial nos recursos do Firebird 5. O evento é organizado pela IBSurgeon e MeuQueridoFirebirdSQL. O evento será em português.

1. Medos de migração mais comuns que podem ser resolvidos em 1 dia
2. Qual é a melhor estratégia de migração para sua empresa
3. Problemas mais comuns enfrentados durante a migração desde a v2.1
4. Melhores práticas para uma migração de sucesso, muitas instalações ou banco de dados muito grande
5. Demonstração de conversão em tempo real - scripts de exemplo
6. Sessões de perguntas e respostas

Mais detalhes e descrição das palestras estão na página do evento.

Saturnin (a Firebird Butler Platform for Python) version 0.8.0 has been released, along with packages with core services and SDK.

Saturnin can now be considered as early beta. There will be more additions, extensions and improvements before the 1.0 release, but the platform is almost feature-complete, and the functionality provided is considered stable and ready for testing. However, some backward incompatible changes in future releases are still possible.

Firebird Project announces the first Beta release of Firebird 5.0, the next major version of the Firebird relational database, which is now available for testing.

This Beta release arrives with features and improvements already implemented by the Firebird development team, as well as with many bugfixes. Our users are appreciated giving it a try and providing feedback to the development mailing list. Apparent bugs can be reported directly to the bugtracker.

Beta releases are not encouraged for production usage or any other goals that require a stable system. They are, however, recommended for those users who want to help in identifying issues and bottlenecks thus allowing to progress faster through the Beta/RC stages towards the final release.

Please read the Release Notes carefully before installing and testing this Beta release.