The Firebird Project is pleased to announce the Firebird Conference 2014: The most important international event devoted to Firebird. The Firebird Conference 2014 will be a meeting point for all Firebird users and developers of Firebird. It's the best place to share and receive Firebird knowledge!

The Firebird Conference 2014 will take place on October 24-25, 2014, in Prague, Czech Republic, at the Clarion Congress Hotel.

Please read more details at the Firebird Conference 2014 page.

The Firebird JDBC team is happy to announce the release of Jaybird 2.2.5.

This release contains the following fixes:

• Fixed: getCrossReference broken by changes of JDBC-331 (JDBC-335)
• Added: basic support for Java 8 java.time in PreparedStatement.setObject() and ResultSet.updateObject() (JDBC-339)

• Fixed: Deadlocks and other thread safety issues with classes in org.firebirdsql.pool (JDBC-341)

The release is also available on maven(*):

*The artifactId depends on your target Java version: jaybird-jdk15, jaybird-jdk16, jaybird-jdk17 or jaybird-jdk18.

Firebird Project invites to the next "All About Transactions" seminar in the frames of Firebird Tour: next stop in Moscow, June 4, 2014.
The speakers are Vlad Khorsun (Firebird Core Team), Alexey Kovyazin (IBSurgeon) and Dmitry Kuzmenko (IBSurgeon).
More details are here (in Russian).