It’s half maintenance release, half new features. You can find all bug fixes in tracker.

The new features include and improvements:

• Support for Trace API in Firebird 2.5.
• Improvements in SQL generation for Entity Framework.
• Support for commands logging .
• Slightly faster command execution of big queries.
• And a lot of small code improvement making it more stable…

You can download it at SourceForge or in the ".NET Provider" section of Downloads.

Alexander Potapchenko is happy to announce that he has released the v.2.0 ODBC/JDBC driver for Firebird. Access the What's New document, sources and binaries for Windows and Linux 32-bit and 64-bit here.

The venue and date for the next edition of the Brazilian Firebird Developers Day (FDD) is now defined. The conference will be in Piracicaba-SP, at Unimep (same place as the previous editions), in July 23, 2011. More information will be published in May, at the conference site.

Firebird 2.1.4 MacOSX for PowerPC, 32-bit Classic and Superserver packages are ready to download.

The Firebird Project team is pleased to announce the latest minor release in the Firebird 2.1 series, v.2.1.4, addressing bugs that have arisen since the v.2.1.3 release in 2009. Kits are ready to download for Linux, Windows and MacOSX on both 32-bit and 64-bit Intel platforms. For MacOSX, LIPO (fat client) packages are included and PowerPC kits will follow soon.

Thanks to those who participated in testing snapshots and the release candidate during the months past. Enjoy!