Author: mariuz

A major update has been merged into the FirebirdSQL/firebird-odbc-driver repository (PR #276), introducing a comprehensive Google Test suite to establish a strong regression testing baseline for the project. Authored by fdcastel, this addition is a crucial stepping stone before making future bug fixes or CI/CD improvements.

Key Highlights:

• Extensive Coverage: The PR adds a massive suite of 375 tests across 38 test suites, designed to exercise the Firebird ODBC driver directly through the standard ODBC API via the Driver Manager.
• Baseline Establishment: No driver source code was modified in this update. The goal is strictly to document what the current driver can do and precisely identify where improvements are needed.
• Pass vs. Skip Strategy: Out of the box, 230 tests pass, confirming that core features like data types, parameter binding, and catalog functions work correctly. The remaining 145 tests are skipped gracefully, each serving as a documented placeholder for known gaps or missing features (like ODBC 3.8 compliance and specific crash fixes).
• Future-Proofing: This sets up a perfect “regression gate.” As future patches and bug fixes are submitted, developers can simply remove the SKIP markers to activate the corresponding tests, proving that the fix works and preventing regressions.
• Standalone CMake Integration: The tests are housed in a self-contained CMake project that fetches Google Test, paving the way for easier integration into a future root CMake build.

This foundational work makes contributing to the Firebird ODBC Driver significantly safer and more measurable going forward!

Jiří Činčura announced the release of Entity Framework Core 10 provider for Firebird.

Shout out to @niekschoemaker who did most of the work.

Overview of all the changes can be found in here and you can get the bits from NuGet FirebirdSql.EntityFrameworkCore.Firebird.

A new TurboBird fork is released with Firebird5 features

New and Improved Features

Dynamic Firebird Data Type Handling
– All Firebird data types are now loaded dynamically at runtime, making TurboBird largely version-independent.

Package Support
– You can now create and edit Firebird packages directly within TurboBird.

UDR Support (User Defined Routines)
– TurboBird can now create, edit, and execute user-defined routines (UDRs), including parameters and results.

Unified Routine Runner
A single routine runner now supports:

– UDFs
– UDRs
– Stored Procedures
– Functions

New releases are here
https://github.com/mdadali/TurboBird/releases

Also you can find the changelog in the tagged release
https://github.com/mdadali/TurboBird/releases/tag/TurboBird_v1.2.1.1262

MWA Software is pleased to announce the release of version 2.7.8 of IBX for Lazarus. This release is a bug fix release fixing several minor bugs – see changelog for details. The resolved issues apply to the design time editors. All users are recommended to upgrade to this version.

In this release:

1. Fixed corruption in idmodifysqleditor.lfm. Using this editor should no longer
   result in an access violation.
2. Design Time SQL Editors: Table Names are now shown in alphabetical order.
3. IBSQL Editor: changing the “Use System Tables” checkbox should now refresh table list.
4. Design Time Editors: Replaced embedded SQL Literals with constants
5. Allow for alternative all upper case SQL literals or first letter UC only.
   Selected by defining the symbol GENERATE_SQL_ALL_UPPERCASE in design/IBSQLEditFrame.pas
   or in the Custom Options for dclibx.

ADO.NET Data provider FirebirdClient 10.3.4.0 is released with a few fixes

Mark Rotteveel released a new version of jaybird-embedded-win32-x86-64:5.0.3.0-alpha-1, providing the Firebird 5.0.3 win32-x86-64 binaries (that is: 64-bit Windows).

For more details, see
https://github.com/mrotteveel/jaybird-embedded-win32-x86-64

Ruby Firebird Extension Library Update to 0.10.0 with following changes :

• Support for Ruby 3.2 #79
• Clear input buffer memory after allocating it to remove garbage #81
• Adapted to Ruby3.4 by using TypedData #85
• Fixed Firebird 5 compatibility (SQL_INT128)
• Improve sql_decimal_to_bigdecimal.
• Fixed build on MacOS.

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

PHP Firebird driver 6.1.1-RC.1 is released , Please test thoroughly and report any issues

Changes since v6.1.1-RC.0 :

• New function ibase_get_client_version()
• Don’t depend on fb_get_master_interface() and fb_get_statement_interface() at compile time. Rather dynamically check if fbclient has them.
• Bunch of smaller fixes

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.