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Jaybird 4.0.0 released

March 14, 2020 Mark Rotteveel Leave a comment

We are happy to announce the first release of Jaybird 4.

Jaybird 4 is – compared to Jaybird 3 – an incremental release that builds on the foundations of Jaybird 3. The focus of this release has been on further improving JDBC support and adding support for the new data types and features of Firebird 4.

The main new features are:

Wire encryption support (backported to Jaybird 3.0.4)
Database encryption support (backported to Jaybird 3.0.4)
Wire compression support
Authentication plugin improvements
Firebird 4 data type bind configuration support (since Jaybird 4.0.0-beta-2)
Firebird 4 DECFLOAT support
Firebird 4 extended numeric precision support
Firebird 4 time zone support
Firebird 4 statement timeout support (since Jaybird 4.0.0-beta-2)
JDBC RowId support
DatabaseMetaData getPseudoColumns implemented
DatabaseMetaData getVersionColumns implemented
DatabaseMetaData getFunctions implemented (since Jaybird 4.0.0-beta-2)
DatabaseMetaData getFunctionColumns implemented (since Jaybird 4.0.0-beta-2)
Improved JDBC function escape support
New JDBC protocol prefix jdbc:firebird:
URL encoding in query part of JDBC URL (backported to Jaybird 3.0.9)
Generated keys support improvements
Operation monitoring

Jaybird 4.0.0-beta-2 available for testing

January 19, 2020 Mark Rotteveel Leave a comment

We are happy to announce the second beta for Jaybird 4.

We’d really appreciate it if you take the time to test this version of Jaybird with your applications. Bug reports about undocumented changes in behavior are appreciated. Feedback can be sent to the Firebird-java mailing list or reported on the issue tracker http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/JDBC.

The main new features are:

Wire encryption support (backported to Jaybird 3.0.4)
Database encryption support (backported to Jaybird 3.0.4)
Wire compression support
Authentication plugin improvements
Firebird 4 data type bind configuration support (since Jaybird 4.0.0-beta-2)
Firebird 4 DECFLOAT support
Firebird 4 extended numeric precision support
Firebird 4 time zone support
Firebird 4 statement timeout support (since Jaybird 4.0.0-beta-2)
JDBC RowId support
DatabaseMetaData getPseudoColumns implemented
DatabaseMetaData getVersionColumns implemented
DatabaseMetaData getFunctions implemented (since Jaybird 4.0.0-beta-2)
DatabaseMetaData getFunctionColumns implemented (since Jaybird 4.0.0-beta-2)
Improved JDBC function escape support
New JDBC protocol prefix jdbc:firebird:
URL encoding in query part of JDBC URL (backported to Jaybird 3.0.9)
Generated keys support improvements
Operation monitoring

Jaybird 4.0.0-beta-2 is for testing purposes only, and not intended for production use.

Jaybird 3.0.8 released

November 25, 2019 Mark Rotteveel Leave a comment

Jaybird 3.0.8 has been released. This release contains one bug fix:

Fixed: On Firebird 3 and 4 with WireCrypt=Enabled, the connection could hang or throw exceptions like “Unsupported or unexpected operation code”. (JDBC-599)

Jaybird 3.0 supports Firebird 2.0 and higher, on Java 7, 8, 11 and 13. Basic Java 9 and higher compatibility is provided through the Java 8 version of the driver.
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Jaybird 3.0.7 released

November 10, 2019 Mark Rotteveel Leave a comment

Jaybird 3.0.7 has been released. This release contains a new feature and two bug fixes:

Fixed: attempts to use a blob after it was freed or after transaction end could throw a NullPointerException or just work depending on whether the connection had a new transaction. (JDBC-587)
Fixed: Instances of java.sql.Blob and java.sql.Clob obtained from a result set were freed after calls to ResultSet.next(). (JDBC-588)
New feature: added FBEventManager.createFor(Connection) to create an EventManager for an existing connection. Backported from Jaybird 4. (JDBC-594)

Jaybird 3.0 supports Firebird 2.0 and higher, on Java 7, 8, 11 and 13. Basic Java 9 and higher compatibility is provided through the Java 8 version of the driver.