Annoucements about Firebird oficial releases.
Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 2.5.6 — the latest minor release in the Firebird 2.5 series.
This sub-release introduces several bug fixes and a few improvements, please refer to the Release Notes for the full list of changes. Binary kits for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are immediately available for download.
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Press Release: English | Russian | Brazilian Portuguese
The primary goals for Firebird 3.0 were to unify the server architecture and to improve support for SMP and multiple-core hardware platforms. Parallel objectives were to improve threading of engine processes and the options for sharing page cache across thread and connection boundaries.
Alongside these aims came new strategies to improve performance, query optimization, monitoring and scalability and to address the demand for more security options. A number of popular features were introduced into the SQL language, including the long-awaited support for the Boolean data type and the associated logical predications.
Documentation: Release Notes (PDF available), Quick Start Guide (PDF available) and other manuals.
Download it here.
A “Migration Guide to Firebird 3” eBook, written by Carlos H. Cantu, is also available.
The source code was just tagged in the repository, so we can expect the final release being out in the next days!
Are you prepared for Firebird 3? The Migration Guide to Firebird 3 eBook is here to help you to move quickly to Firebird 3. The eBook is available in English and in Brazilian Portuguese.
Firebird Project announces the second Release Candidate of Firebird 3.0, the next major version of the Firebird relational database, which is now available for testing.
Dmitry Yemanov just confirmed that we can expect Firebird Release Candidate 2 to be released this month (January/16). The source code should be tagged in the next 2 weeks, and after that, it is just a matter of the documentation team finishing the release notes.
Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 2.5.5 — the latest minor release in the Firebird 2.5 series.
This sub-release introduces several bug fixes and a few improvements, please refer to the Release Notes for the full list of changes. Binary kits for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are immediately available for download.
Firebird Project announces the first Release Candidate of Firebird 3.0, the next major version of the Firebird relational database, which is now available for testing.
This Release Candidate demonstrates the complete set of features and improvements developed for the new release. Release Candidates are generally considered stable enough and may be recommended for testing in “almost-production” environments. Please report about any found bugs to the bugtracker.
Please read the Release Notes carefully before installing and testing this Release Candidate.
Download page:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-3-0-0-rc1/
Release Notes:
http://web.firebirdsql.org/download/prerelease/rlsnotes/Firebird-3.0.0_RC1-ReleaseNotes.pdf
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Dmitry Yemanov
Firebird 3 Release Candidate 1 is now tagged at Sourceforge. Next steps are: run the QA tests, prepare docs, and release it for testing.
This version will make the build reproducible.
The reproducible builds initiative aims to enable anyone to reproduce bit by bit identical binary packages from a given source, thus enabling anyone to independently verify that a binary matches the source code from which it was said it was derived. For example, this allow the users of Debian to rebuild packages and obtain exactly identical packages to the ones provided by the Debian repositories.
Prune tool sets the creation stamp in the database header to a fixed value (taken from the last changelog stanza) and
prunes unused space on index/data pages of shipped databases
