Jaybird 6.0.6 and Jaybird 5.0.13 have been released, providing bug fixes. Jaybird is the Firebird JDBC driver.
More details here.
This driver has now surpassed 1 million downloads per year!
Roadmap and Repository Updates: https://github.com/hgourvest/node-firebird/blob/master/ROADMAP.md
Context on the Roadmap: https://mapopa.blogspot.com/2026/07/node-firebird-catches-up-roadmap.html
v2.6.0 Release and Milestone: https://mapopa.blogspot.com/2026/07/announcing-node-firebird-v260.html
The latest updates focus mainly on expanding connectivity options and introducing a new pure Node.js implementation. Key changes include:
Aug 9, 2026 — Fix #174: support for offset-based time zones.
Aug 8, 2026 — Feature #172: added a ConnectOptions option for the Firebird 6 schema search path.
May 4, 2026 — Feature #166: introduced a pure Node.js driver implementation that works independently of the native fbclient library. Release details: https://asfernandes.github.io/2026/05/04/node-firebird-driver-wire
Feb 21, 2026 — Feature #165: added charSetForNONE as a new connection option.
Jan 29, 2026 — Feature #163: added a type property to the Statement interface.
Dec 31, 2025 — Feature #162: added setDatabaseReadWriteMode as a connection option, for better control over database access modes.
This package uses the node-firebird-driver interfaces and provides its own JSI/native implementation. It requires a bare React Native app or a development-client app using the New Architecture; it does not support iOS or Expo Go in this version.
Repository on GitHub
Electric Firebird (mariuz/electric-firebird on GitHub) compiles the Firebird database engine to WebAssembly, following the same approach PGlite used for PostgreSQL. The goal is to let Firebird run both server-side (in Node.js) and fully client-side in the browser, with no server round-trip needed for queries.
FBSimCity is an explorable isometric city where every building represents a real Firebird subsystem, and every glowing particle represents a query traveling through the system — in through the client harbor, through the SQL translator, into the relational engine, and back home carrying results.
Source: https://github.com/mariuz/FBSimCity (MIT license, plain HTML/JS, no build step)
Purpose of the FBSimCity project
It is aimed at engineers who know SQL but have never seen what happens underneath it (i.e., “under the hood”).
Please note: this is a model, not an emulator. No SQL is actually parsed, and no Firebird code runs in the browser.