Author: mariuz

Mark Rotteveel published a snapshot of Jaybird 3.0 for testing purposes.

This is a very early snapshot, a lot of work still needs to be done
before Jaybird 3.0 will be release-ready. We’d appreciate your feedback,
but we’d like to emphasize that this version is unstable and not ready
for production.

The protocol implementation has been fundamentally rewritten and changes
have been made for stricter JDBC conformance. As a result the driver
might exhibit different behavior than previous versions. Read the
release notes carefully to see if those differences are intentional. Bug
reports about undocumented changes in behavior are appreciated.

Current snapshot versions do not support Type 2 and embedded driver

Download from sourceforge

or from Maven from the sonatype snapshot repository

Release notes are online at driver documentation page

FDB release 1.4.1 is out:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb

This release fixes some issues found over last year and adds few
enhancements. Check out the changelog at
http://pythonhosted.org//fdb/changelog.html#version-1-4-1

There are a few changes to libfq (A Postgresql like api and wrapper for Firebird api)

If you like Vim here is the Syntax Highlighter for Firebird SQL dialect (First version)

There is a github project pushed up here:
https://github.com/blumf/firebird_vim_syntax

Should be pretty simple for most *nix users to use.

sudo apt-get install lua5.2
git clone https://github.com/blumf/firebird_vim_syntax.git
cd firebird_vim_syntax
make
make install

A few more Firebird fixes are commited in LibreOffice git
Fdo#79493 Refresh Tables option fails with Firebird
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79493

Fdo#73352 firebird don’t claim to support interfaces one doesn’t
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73352

Fdo#74019 – FILEOPEN: Any table or select query having more than 10 fields cannot be opened in a database with embedded FireBird
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74019#c19

Some days ago ib surgeon published an article about the relationship between Firebird performance and databases growth, where they have tested the 1.7 Terabyte Firebird SQL database. Here you can find more details about such a big database.

Adriano dos Santos Fernandes will push the pull requests from github mirror to svn repository
That way is easier to contribute to the project.

Tom Conlon added a Firebird NodeJS example of querying using asynchronous Promises.

Latest version for Node C++ Module for Firebird from git can be build on MacOSX fixing Linking flags (against regular Firebird installation)