Jaybird 6.0.2 and Jaybird 5.0.8 released

We are happy to announce the release of Jaybird 6.0.2 and Jaybird 5.0.8. Both releases provide support for upcoming Firebird 5.0.3 inline blobs, and some other improvements.

For more information on inline blobs, for Firebird 5.0.3 and higher, see also New Article: Data access methods used in Firebird.

Changes

The following was fixed or changed since Jaybird 6.0.1 / Jaybird 5.0.7:

  • Improvement: added authPlugins property on FBManager (#866 / #865)
  • Improvement: increased default and maximum SQL info sizes used for retrieving statement information like columns, parameters and plan information (#869 / #868)
  • Improvement: backported inline blob support (Firebird 5.0.3 and higher) from Jaybird 7 (#870 / #871)
  • Improvement: The time zone mapping was updated (#874 / #875)

Bug reports about undocumented changes in behavior are appreciated. Feedback can be sent to Firebird-java or reported on the issue tracker https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/jaybird/issues.

Jaybird 6.0.2

Jaybird 6 supports Firebird 3.0 and higher, on Java 17, Java 21, and Java 24.

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Jaybird 5.0.8

Jaybird 5 supports Firebird 2.5 and higher, on Java 8, Java 11, Java 17, Java 21, and Java 24 (support for Java 11 and higher using the Java 11 version of the driver). 

See also:

RED EXPERT 2025.04 HAS BEEN RELEASED

You can join to the Telegram chat for discussion.

New version of Red Expert 2025.04 is available.

What’s new?

Added:

  1. Displaying the execution time of each query in the editor
  2. A dialog informing about new version of the application
  3. Ability to select driver when executing SQL script from a file
  4. Ability to open the file location from the editor

Fixed:

  1. Memory leaks when using the application for long time
  2. Scaling the application window on HiDPI monitors
  3. Adding drivers for connection
  4. Creating constraints using TABLESPACE
  5. Creating constraints using “USING <index>”
  6. Editing tablespaces
  7. Using negative values in fields with DOUBLE PRECISION type
  8. Activity of editor toolbar buttons after changing it in the settings
  9. Switching between executed requests in the editor
  10. Search for nodes by name in the connection tree

Download and install the new version.