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    Firebird Roadmap 2008

    The upcoming major Firebird version to be released is v2.1. It is currently in the release candidate stage, and is expected to be released in Q1 2008.

    The next major version being developed by the project is v2.5 and its Alpha builds are also scheduled for Q1 2008.

    Besides that, a few point releases of the v1.5.x and v2.0.x series are also going to be released this year.

    And finally, we expect the first review builds of version 3.0 to become available for public distribution by the end of the year.

    Release Plan
    Q1 2008
    • v2.1 RC and Final
    • v2.0.4
    • v2.5 Alpha
    Q2 2008
    • v2.1.1
    • v2.5 Beta
    Q3 2008
    • v1.5.6
    • v2.0.5
    • v2.5 RC
    Q4 2008
    • v2.1.2
    • v2.5 Final
    • v3.0 Alpha


    Release Details

    The following blocks summarise the features scheduled for each Firebird version in the release plan for year 2008. Click on the "Track Details" icons to see more details in the Firebird Issue Tracker.
    Release 1.5.6
    • Critical bugfixes only, mostly security related ones
    Releases 2.0.4 and 2.0.5
    • All kinds of bugfixes
    • Performance regression fixes
    • Porting efforts
    Release 2.1.0
    • Database triggers
    • Text BLOB enhancements
    • MERGE statement
    • Global temporary tables
    • CTE and recursive queries
    • Monitoring tables
    • Query cancellation
    • Native authentication on Windows
    • Unicode collations and INTL improvements
    • Optimized network protocol
    • About new 50 built-in functions
    Release 2.1.1 and 2.1.2
    • Regression fixes
    • Generic bugfixes
    • Porting efforts
    Release 2.5.0
    • Scalable multi-threading with per-connection caches
    • Optimized lock management
    • Monitoring extentions
    • ALTER VIEW statement
    • Support for regular expressions in SQL
    • Autonomous transactions
    • User account maintenance via SQL
    • New built-in functions
    • Queries against external databases
    Release 3.0.0
    • Unified architecture
    • Effective multi-threading with the shared cache
    • Compiled statement cache
    • Per-database configuration
    • Cross-database queries
    • External (e.g. Java) procedures
    • New SQL features

    Regards
    Dmitry Yemanov
    Development Coordinator
    January 2008

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