The new article is dedicated to Firebird QA: how it works today and why it needs to be stronger.
Agora o Firebird tem 93 pull requests (PRs) abertos com correções de bugs e novas funcionalidades! De modo geral, isso é ótimo, mas há um problema: a falta de recursos de QA para revisar o código e testar as correções e funcionalidades propostas. Participe do financiamento coletivo para melhorar o QA: vamos comprar VMs e destinar verbas adicionais aos engenheiros de QA. A meta é de US$ 20.000.
Read digest of Firebird news during the Q3 2026: new releases of drivers, videos, free book, and EmberWings magazine.
Materialized views in Firebird: store the pre-calculated result of a query instead of running it every time. See in this video MV's syntax, refresh options and an example running 95x faster.
Check out new versions and new tools for Firebird: Plamenix 1.0.0 beta, BeKeeper Studio, RdbExpert 2026.8
Watch part 2 of the video on common SQL query optimization mistakes in Firebird
Watch part 1 of the video on common SQL query optimization mistakes in Firebird.
Summer is fading, but it’s still hot — and we’re already moving into an intensive autumn season. Click to see updates on drivers and several other interesting projects.
Jaybird 6.0.6 and Jaybird 5.0.13 have been released
The second edition of must-have book for Firebird SQL database developers who want to use the full potential of Firebird 5.
