Firebird related news
RAD Studio 10.3 (Rio) was released today, and includes updated FireDac components with official support to Firebird 3. Check all the new features here.
Improvements for Firebird
- Support for Firebird v 3.0, including new:
- local connection protocol.
- FB$OUT package.
- isc_database_info() information items.
- Statistics feature in gbak output.
- Support for statement length > 64Kb.
- New TFDFBOnlineValidate component.
- New GUIDEndian=Little|Big connection parameters.
Meiji Kimura and Hajime Nakagami created Firebird Advent Calendar 2018 , there Firebird Japanese community will post articles in each day of Advent period (Anyone can participate even with English articles).
You can check for articles from the previous year for inspiration.
New dedicated session added for Firebird support
Added dedicated session from 13:00 to 15:00 UTC for Base support of Firebird embedded engine and Access2Base basic library Firebird 3 support.
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHuntingSession/6.2.0Beta 
More info at this link.
Upscene releases Database Workbench V5.4.6
Database .NET v26 is an innovative, powerful and intuitive multiple database management tool.
(Full support for Firebird 1.5~4.0+)
Avalerion for Firebird 3.0.4 is available. The Linux 64bit build will follow shortly.
German translation of ODBC/JDBC Driver manual is published (PDF available) and also pushed to Github repository .
Thanks to Martin Köditz
Hello everyone!
For fans only:
For the first time, we managed to perform all IBProvider system tests applicable to Firebird v3 in one run. This took 26 days and a ten-core processor.
Full note text: https://www.ibprovider.com/eng/news/n_181010.html
Regards,
IBProvider Team.
