Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 2.5.1 — a minor release of the award-winning relational database management system. This sub-release introduces several bug fixes and many important improvements — for example, performance improvements during a database restore, the ability to write to global temporary tables in read-only databases, etc.
The Firebird Project invites all Firebird users and developers to participate in the Firebird Conference 2011, which will take place in Luxembourg, November 25-26, 2011.
Read this new case study to know how DRBSystems uses Firebird for more than 1500 of Point of Sale Systems for Carwash Industry, and why they decided to be Platinum Sponsor of Firebird Foundation.
New Firebird case study is published: read why Moscow City Hospital #31 have choosen Firebird instead of Oracle to build medical analytical system.
Firebird 2.5.1 RC1 MacOSX 32-bit builds are available for download.
Today Firebird Project announces availability of Firebird 2.5.1 Release Candidate 1 64-bit builds for MacOSX and update of Firebird 2.5.0 64-bit release builds. Download them from Firebird 2.5.1 RC1 page and Firebird 2.5.0 release page.
Firebird 2.1.4 builds for HP-UX 11 Classic & Embedded (PA-RISC) are available for download at Firebird 2.1.4 page.
Firebird 2.1.4 builds for Solaris Intel x86 32- and 64-bits are available for download at Firebird 2.1.4 page.
The Firebird documentation team is pleased to announce the availability of the Firebird 2.5 Language Reference Update. This comprehensive manual, available in HTML and PDF, contains all the SQL additions, updates and improvements since InterBase 6. Combined with the InterBase 6 Language Reference, it forms a complete SQL reference for Firebird 2.5.