New release of Firebird driver for Python V1.8.0 is available
New release of Firebird driver for Python V1.8.0 is available for download with a few changes.
- New: Server.readline_timed method.
New release of Firebird driver for Python V1.8.0 is available for download with a few changes.
Mark Rotteveel created a Ticket and Pull Request for Hibernate ORM to improve Firebird dialect with fixes to a number of issues.
Improve Firebird dialect to fix a number of issues:
Updated a number of tests so they are either passing for Firebird, or ignored for Firebird.
This article is published on the 5th day of Firebird Advent Calendar 2022 https://qiita.com/advent-calendar/2022/firebird
and continues from previus blog from Firebird Advent Calendar 2019 https://nakagami.blog.ss-blog.jp/2019-12-22 (article in Japanese language) .
Elixir’s Firebird driver firebirdex https://hex.pm/packages/firebirdex has some features and bug fixes reported and fixed by @hermanius this year.
Added function
– ping() now works https://github.com/nakagami/firebirdex/pull/1
– charset can be specified as connection parameter https://github.com/nakagami/firebirdex/issues/7
bug fix
– nil conversion error https://github. com/nakagami/firebirdex/pull/2
– tatement after query https://github.com/nakagami/firebirdex/pull/5
– Pending transactions https://github.com/nakagami/firebirdex/issues/6
Thanks to @hermanius for the help.
Meiji Kimura created Firebird Advent Calendar 2022 , 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.
Gerdus van Zyl published an article comparing the speed of bulk operations using the Firebird batch API (introduced in FB 3) and the standard/legacy API.
Check it out, the results are very interesting.

Jaybird 4.0.8 has been released
The following has been changed or fixed since Jaybird 4.0.7:
Jaybird 4 supports Firebird 2.5 and higher, on Java 7, 8, 11, 17 and 19 (support for Java 17 and 19 using the Java 11 version of the driver).
See also
Django Firebird driver 2.2.1 released with a small fix for issue #108
https://pypi.org/project/django-firebird/2.2.1/
Also master branch is patched (that can be used with django 3.x)
Jaybird 4.0.7 has been released
The following has been changed or fixed since Jaybird 4.0.6:
Jaybird 4 supports Firebird 2.5 and higher, on Java 7, 8, 11, 17 and 19 (support for Java 17 and using the Java 11 version of the driver).
See also
Hello Everyone!
We came back with new releases 🙂
We have just finished the large revision of our components and we are really glad to announce the following new versions:
You can read about changes in these components at our website – https://www.ibprovider.com/eng/news/n_221110.html
Only for visitors of this resource. We restored our store at PayProGlobal and we would like to test it 🙂
Everyone who will buy or renew a license for IBProvider 32/64bit till the end of this month will get two years of free updates.
With Best Regards, IBProvider Team.
Github Action : Setup FirebirdSQL updated to 1.2.0.
This GitHub Action sets up a Firebird database running on a docker container.