Month: November 2025

RDB Expert 2025.11 has been released

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What’s new?

Added:

  1. Ability to delete and recreate a database.

Fixed:

  1. Errors preventing new database creation.
  2. Procedure parameters disappearing after recompile.
  3. Protocol version used when connecting to a database in native mode.
  4. Prematurely saving connection parameters when the connection panel loses focus.
  5. Navigating to a database object from the Query Editor if its name is not unique.

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New release of free Database Workbench Lite Edition

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Upscene Productions is proud to announce an update to the free Database Workbench Lite Edition, available for personal use for the Firebird or MySQL/MariaDB database system.

✨ “Database Workbench Lite 6.8.4” ✨

⬇️ You can download it here.
🔎 For a detailed feature comparison between the different editions, see the feature matrix.

Database Workbench Basic, Pro and Enterprise support the following database systems:
✅ Firebird,
✅ MySQL, MariaDB
✅ PostgreSQL
✅ SQLite
✅ Oracle
✅ SQL Server
✅ NexusDB
✅ InterBase

It includes tools for database design, database maintenance, testing, data transfer, data import & export, database migration, database compare and numerous other tools.

PHP Firebird driver 6.1.1-RC.2 is released

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PHP Firebird driver 6.1.1-RC.2 is released . Please test thoroughly and report any issues.

Changes since v6.1.1-RC.1 :

  • New functions ibase_get_client_major_version(), ibase_get_client_minor_version()
  • Addressed issues: #22, #78, #88, #91, #92, #95, #96

Possible breaking changes:

  • ibase_close() now closes connection instantly instead of decreasing refcount (see more #22)
  • fetching TIME fields with IBASE_UNIXTIME flag now returns time as string instead of negative values

Stored procedure debugger Hopper 2.4 released

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Upscene Productions is proud to announce version 2.4.0 of “Hopper”, a stored routine debugger available for InterBase, Firebird or MySQL.

✅ set breakpoints in stored code
✅ step through code command by command
✅ trace into other routines
✅ debug triggers
✅ inspect data while debugging

This release brings new features and bugfixes. For more information, check the Hopper page at our website.

Firebirust v0.5.3 is released

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Firebirust v0.5.3 is released with a few changes :

This release adds inspectable column metadata to statements, tightens and cleans up several internal APIs, expands tests

Highlights

  • Add column inspection API on Statement and StatementAsync:
  • column_count()
  • column_names() -> Vec<&str>
  • column_metadata(col: usize) -> Option<(sqltype, sqlscale, sqlsubtype, sqllen, null_ok, fieldname, relname, ownname)>
  • Improved test coverage — sync and async tests now assert column count, names, and metadata.
  • Internal refactor:
  • SQL type constants promoted to crate root.
  • Many protocol/constants now have crate-level visibility (pub(crate)).
  • XSQLVar made crate-private (pub(crate)); parsing now uses utils:: helpers.