fixed by Alex Peshkoff

(1.5.1) Modification of /etc/init.d/firebird during Linux installation now works properly.

fixed by Nickolay Samofatov

(1.5.1) The wrong soname for libib_util.so caused warnings in ldconfig and also meant that it could not be loaded automatically by external function libraries using calls to ib_util_malloc(). That made such libraries unusable, unless a PRELOAD environment setting was added for fbserver/fb_inet_server.

fixed by Nickolay Samofatov

(1.5.1) Memory corruptions in the embedded DSQL API implementation were corrected.

fixed by Arno Brinkman

(1.5.1) The following two optimizer bugs were fixed:

fixed by Dmitry Sibiryakov

(1.5.1) 'Extract' bug in ISQL was fixed: previously, procedure parameters would be extracted incorrectly.

fixed by Arno Brinkman

(1.5.1) Mapping of COUNT(*) in a HAVING clause when used with IN, ANY/SOME, ALL has been corrected.

fixed by Nickolay Samofatov

(1.5.1) NULLS FIRST ordering parameter now works in union queries ().

fixed by Nickolay Samofatov

(1.5.1) The algorithm for dependency tracking that was introduced into gbak in v.1.5, made restoring a database with many interdependent procedures too slow. It has been replaced by a faster algorithm.

fixed by Alex Peshkoff

(1.5.1) Fixed a memory leak in EXECUTE STATEMENT...INTO.

fixed by Nickolay Samofatov

(1.5.1) A fresh implementation of the editline facility in isql was done to resolve a problem with isql crashing on some platforms.

fixed by Paul Reeves

(1.5.1) A serious memory leak was fixed in the Windows control panel applet. If the applet window was left open for several hours it would eventually trigger a low memory condition on the server.

fixed by Paul Reeves

(1.5.1) Switching the server status via the control panel applet from certain configurations would lead to inconsistencies on Win XP and Win 2003. There were timing issues that were only apparent on these platforms. The problem was fixed.

fixed by Alex Peshkoff

(1.5.1) On Windows, server startup was failing to look for the FIREBIRD environment variable when trying to locate the root directory. Fixed.

fixed by Helen Borrie

(1.5.1) DOC for Embedded Server (README_embedded.txt) was updated slightly to reduce confusion about the client connection string format.