We are happy to announce the release of Jaybird 2.2.15.

Jaybird 2.2.15 is the last version of Jaybird 2.2.x, and we will not plan new changes or fixes for 2.2.x. This effectively means that Jaybird 2.2.x is End-Of-Life.

If you run into problems, we will recommend that you switch to Jaybird 3 (or 4 once it is released). Contact us on Firebird-Java for questions.

Jaybird 2.2.15 contains the following fixes and changes:

• Fixed: Exceptions during fetch of cached result sets (holdable over commit, scrollable and metadata) prevented prepared statement reuse/re-execute with error _"Attempt to reopen an open cursor"_ JDBC-531)
• Fixed: Jaybird cannot parse Firebird version numbers with revisions (JDBC-534)
• Fixed: Incorrect parsing of Firebird version numbers (JDBC-535)

Jaybird 2.2 supports Firebird 1.0 and higher, on Java 6, 7 and 8. For Java 11 or higher, use Jaybird 3.

See also:

• Jaybird 2.2.15 release notes
• Jaybird downloads
• Instructions for Maven

If you need to convert a very big Firebird 2.5 database to 3.0, or many databases during the short period of time (for example, overnight or during the weekend), you will definitely find useful this article: it describes how to speed up the backup-restore process by 25-30% with the streamed backup-restore process.
Please read Fast conversion of Firebird 2.5 databases to Firebird 3.0.

Jiri Cincura announces the 6.6.0.0 Release of ADO.NET provider for Firebird.

This release fills all the holes in the Entity Framework Core support. Now Migrations are fully supported and query pipeline has been massively improved. Just to give you an idea, about 4100 tests were added. If you want to use Entity Framework Core with Firebird, now is the time.

Overview of all the changes can be found in tracker.

You can download them in the ".NET Provider" section of Downloads. Enjoy!