Author: mariuz

Firebird Technical Specifications are updated for Firebird 4.0

https://firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-technical-specifications/

Node-firebird-driver-native version 2.3.0 has been released with a few features added.

• Feature #101 – Add property Statement.hasResultSet.
• Feature #102 – Add method Statement.setCursorName.

Mark Rotteveel announced :

“With Jaybird 4 available for over a year, I have decided that Jaybird 3
will only receive updates – if necessary – until the end of 2021.

I recommend everyone to upgrade to Jaybird 4 as soon as possible, but
read the release notes before upgrading.”

Adriano Fernandes wrote on his blog :

“Would you have interest in a Firebird integration with Node.js making possible and easy to use routines (procedures, functions and triggers) developed in JavaScript, with all the power of the Node.js platform and its NPM modules, inside Firebird databases?

If yes, please answear a survey I have created about this feature and share it with all the people you know is interested: https://forms.gle/Evqz2S1QVwL23498A

If you are Brazilian, please use this other form and share it: https://forms.gle/NCAhWMi3TMVQuMUS6.

(Se você for Brasileiro, por favor use este outro formulário e compartilhe: https://forms.gle/NCAhWMi3TMVQuMUS6)”

Laravel Firebird driver is updated to version 2.4.1 with following changes :

• Fix expressions in stored procedures
• Add distinct from operators
• Add port env to README

IBPhoenix would like to announce the beta availablity of an ODBC connectivity plugin for Firebird that allows Firebird to connect directly to other ODBC databases using the “Execute Statement On External Data Source” syntax. Currently the plugin is available for Windows (32/64bit).

Adriano Fernandes uploaded a test version of Firebird 4.0.0 for Raspberry Pi (aarch64).

With v4 or latest tag you can use ARM64 and ARM/v7 (32 bits) natively on

Raspberry Pi , Apple Silicon and Amazon Graviton instances.

Firebird 4.0 Docker image is released and the following tags can be used : v4.0, v4.0.0, latest.

Golang firebird driver version 0.9.1 released with one fix.

You can install it with go get github.com/nakagami/firebirdsql