Category: General news

Firebird 4.0 Language Reference is now online in the Firebird documentation area in both pdf and html format

Firebird high-level native client for Node.js / TypeScript updated to v2.1.2 with a few changes :

native-api

• Fix #86 – Race condition in events processing.

The entire tracker.firebirdsql.org was moved to GitHub, firebird-documentation (DOC), firebird (CORE), Jaybird (JDBC), website (WEB), ODBC (ODBC) , .NET provider (DNET), FDB (PYFB) and testing (QA).

The issue tracker for the Firebird documentation has moved to Github

Denis Simonov, editor and contributor of Firebird Language Reference, and also the author of Firebird Developer Guide, has written the “Short Firebird Migration Guide To Firebird 4.0” (also available as PDF):

1. Manual installation of Firebird 40 on Windows                                             
2. Converting the database to a new format                                                   
3. Migrating database aliases                                                                
4. Migrating user list                                                                       
5. Configuring Trusted Authentication                                                        
6. Application-level incompatibilities                                                         

Well, it is not that short: 23 pages of essential information about Firebird 4 migration.
It covers migration from 3.0 and from 2.5, since many people still use 2.5, but plan to jump to 4.0 due to native replication and improved performance.
We are expecting Firebird 4 release very, very soon, so, if you are eager to be the first to try it, download the most recent snapshot, read this Migration Guide, and do the test migration!

Firebird driver for Erlang v.0.7.0 released with a few refactorings and testing done for Firebird 4.0.

Here are the commit changes between latest releases.

Firebird driver for Elixir version 0.1.1 released .

Consult the list of changes between releases here.

IBPhoenix are currently testing a version of Firebird 3.x that supports parallel backup and restore via gbak (backup and restore times are significantly reduced). If you would like to test and evaluate this version of Firebird, please contact them. https://www.ibphoenix.com/about/contact