Firebird: Planning Board

Last updated: June 2021

Firebird 5.0

This release is intended to be time-based rather than feature-based. Below are the features that are considered desirable and (hopefully) doable during the next few years. Those finished within the established timeframe will be included into the Firebird 5.0 release.

Timeframes

Milestone	Deadline	Status
Alpha Release (feature preview)	January 2022	IN PROGRESS
Beta Release (stable enough)	April 2022	IN PROGRESS
Final Release	June 2022	IN PROGRESS

Features in the pipeline (to be updated)

Feature	Reference(s)	Developer / Assistant	Status
GBAK's parallel operations	CORE-2992	Vlad Khorsun
New data access paths, subquery transformations	CORE-4823	Dmitry Yemanov
Optimizer statistics: more data (including histograms), auto-update	CORE-1082, CORE-1686	Dmitry Yemanov / Vlad Khorsun
TRUNCATE TABLE command	CORE-2479	Dmitry Yemanov
Tablespaces	CORE-688	Roman Simakov

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