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Category: General news
Firebird related news
Jaybird 4.0.0-beta-2 available for testing
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.
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 is for testing purposes only, and not intended for production use.
See also:
Firebird Docker image updated to 3.0.5
You can use the Firebird 3.0.5 docker image based on Debian Jessie
https://hub.docker.com/r/jacobalberty/firebird/
Thanks to Serghei Cebotari for this update
Firebird high-level native client for Node.js / TypeScript updated to v2.1.0
25% off in the migration guide to FB3
To celebrate the New Year, I’m offering a 25% discount in the eBook version of the Migration Guide to Firebird 3, so you will pay USD 12 instead of USD 16! The discount is valid until 2020 Jan, 11.
Hurry up and save some money! To get the discount, enter the coupon code GUIDE25 when filling the order form.
IBProvider v5.10
Hello All!
We have prepared for you the last IBProvider update in this decade.
https://www.ibprovider.com/eng/news/n_191230.html
Thanks to everyone who helped us improve our software!
Happy New Year!
Kind Regards, IBProvider Team.
Firebird high-level native client for Node.js / TypeScript updated to v2.0.0
Django 3.0 driver for Firebird djfirebirdsql 0.2.0 released
Django 3.0 driver for Firebird (4.0+) is released . More info on the announcement page (Japanese).
IBProvider News
In the current update, IBProvider v5.9 and LCPI OLE DB Services v1.12 started to use a common thread pool. This rearrangement of subsystems makes the operating system resource management more efficient and improves the overall performance of high-load applications.
Currently, the threads are being used for the following tasks:
- Connection pool
- Query pool
- Asynchronous loading of result sets
- Asynchronous notifications of the provider
- Working with files
- Garbage collection in updatable result sets
Read full news text: https://www.ibprovider.com/eng/news/n_191210-shared_thread_pool.html
Kind Regards, IBProvider Team.
Crowdfunding: Adapt Firebirdsql.org for mobile devices
As you know firebirdsql.org site, is using the current design for almost 10 years.
To adapt the website for mobile devices, we’re starting a crowdfunding campaign: https://www.firebirdsql.org/en/website-adapt-funding-2019/
to add support for mobile phones/tablets, help to make the website faster and more responsive and increase visibility in search engines.
Please support the crowdfunding!