Accordingly to its release lifetime policy, Firebird Project notifies that the Firebird v2.1 series has reached its end-of-life and thus will not be maintained anymore. The last official release in this series, Firebird 2.1.7, which has been announced in December 2014, will be available from the "Discontinued Versions" section of the download area.
The Firebird JDBC team is happy to announce the release of Jaybird 2.2.6.
Jiri Cincura announces the 4.5.2 Release of ADO.NET provider for Firebird. You can download it in the ".NET Provider" section of Downloads. Enjoy! See blog.cincura.net for details.
The Firebird project has released Security Updates for the currently maintained 2.1.x and 2.5.x versions (v2.1.7 and v2.5.3 SU1). These updates fix a recently discovered security vulnerability (CORE-4630) that may be used for a remote DoS attack that could be performed by unauthorised users. We recommend Firebird users to upgrade as soon as is practical.
Firebird Project announces the first Beta release of Firebird 3.0, the next major version of the Firebird relational database, which is now available for testing.
Alexander Potapchenko is happy to announce that he has released the v.2.0.3 ODBC/JDBC driver for Firebird. What's New document, sources and binaries for Windows and Linux 32-bit and 64-bit are ready to download.
Jiri Cincura announces the 4.5.2 Release of ADO.NET provider for Firebird. You can download it in the ".NET Provider" section of Downloads. Enjoy! See blog.cincura.net for details.
Firebird Project is pleased to announce that «Firebird 2.5 Language Reference» in Russian language is released. It is available on Firebird SQL Documentation page http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals/ Why it is only in Russian and how to get it in English? The answer is the following: Moscow Exchange, one of the biggest Firebird users in the world, and IBSurgeon (tools and service for Firebird) have sponsored documentation development in Russian. Several Russian-speaking core develo