RED EXPERT 2025.07 HAS BEEN RELEASED

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New version of Red Expert 2025.07 is available.

What’s new?

Improved:

  1. Metadata Export / Compare tool

Fixed:

  1. High CPU and RAM load when CTRL is held down in the Query Editor
  2. Infinite reconnecting to DB using certificate
  3. Editing table columns with encoding and dimensions
  4. Editing database users
  5. Loading table triggers in Firebird 2.5
  6. Loading procedure parameters
  7. Loading table constraints
  8. Creating a database backup by overwriting an existing file
  9. Restoring Query Editor tabs after restarting the application
  10. Loading drivers for connections containing spaces in the path
  11. Application hangs when working with unsupported DBMS
  12. Displaying hints for password input field
  13. Displaying the database statistics

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Free Database Workbench Lite 6.7.0 now available

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Upscene Productions is proud to announce the availability of a free feature limited version of Database Workbench 6.7.0 Lite Edition, for personal non-commercial use. Download it here. There’s a version for Firebird and a version for MySQL.

For details on the feature differences between editions, see this feature matrix.

“Database Workbench is used by thousands of developers around the world, we’re making it available to hobbyists too”, says Martijn Tonies, founder of Upscene Productions. “Everyone can now use the free Lite Edition for personal non-commercial use.”

Database Workbench Basic and up support MySQL, MariaDB, Firebird, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, NexusDB, SQLite and InterBase, comes in multiple editions and is licensed based on selectable modules.

It includes tools for database design, database maintenance, testing, data transfer, data import & export, database migration, database compare and numerous other tools.

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RED EXPERT 2025.06 HAS BEEN RELEASED

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New version of Red Expert 2025.06 is available.

What’s new?

Required Java version has been updated to 21 LTS.
Java is supplied with the application now.

Added:

  1. Support for partial indexes
  2. Specifying JVM parameters in the configuration file
  3. Script for creating triggers and indexes for table metadata
  4. Connection tree visibility button

Fixed:

  1. Display settings after updating from the old versions (2024.07 and older)
  2. Generate SQL script for computed indices
  3. Generate SQL script based on ER diagram
  4. Displaying a query plan containing tables with “PLAN” in the name
  5. Working with the user context (AUTHID and SQL SECURITY)
  6. Handling errors that occur when connecting to a database
  7. Saving and loading ER diagram files
  8. Inserting and deleting table data using a dialog box
  9. Applying settings using the “OK” button
  10. Changing the colour properties for the table “Data” tab
  11. Displaying GUI components on some panels
  12. Displaying the date editor in a dark theme
  13. Displaying the application shortcut on Windows OS

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MCP Firebird 2.2.0 – Complete SSE Transport Implementation

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This release 2.2.0 brings complete SSE (Server-Sent Events) transport support to MCP Firebird, making it fully compatible with the MCP Inspector and modern MCP clients while maintaining 100% backwards compatibility with existing STDIO implementations.

✨ New Features

🌐 SSE Transport Support

  • Full SSE Implementation: Complete Server-Sent Events transport using official MCP SDK v1.13.2
  • MCP Inspector Compatible: Works seamlessly with npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector
  • Backwards Compatible Server: Supports both modern and legacy MCP clients
  • Multi-Protocol Support: Single server instance handles STDIO, SSE, and HTTP simultaneously
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RED EXPERT 2025.05 HAS BEEN RELEASED

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New version of Red Expert 2025.05 is available.

What’s new?

Added:

  1. OCTETS character set support
  2. Display UUID in hexadecimal
  3. Warning about incompatible ODS server and DB versions
  4. JetBrains Mono font for query editor

Fixed:

  1. Editing the scale of columns with NUMERIC and DECIMAL types
  2. Working with different file encodings in the query editor
  3. Saving the size and location on the screen
  4. Changing editor fonts in settings
  5. TABs to spaces converting
  6. Restarting application if there is unsaved data
  7. Editing tablespaces with comments
  8. Creating table with domain columns
  9. English documentation opening
  10. Copying a result set with NULL values to the clipboard
  11. Password field displaying in classic theme
  12. Displaying angle brackets in the SQL script difference pane
  13. Query editor tabs behavior on establishing/releasing DB connection
  14. SQL header generation when retrieving database metadata
  15. Deleting table records with the using of dialog window

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Jaybird 6.0.2 and Jaybird 5.0.8 released

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We are happy to announce the release of Jaybird 6.0.2 and Jaybird 5.0.8. Both releases provide support for upcoming Firebird 5.0.3 inline blobs, and some other improvements.

For more information on inline blobs, for Firebird 5.0.3 and higher, see also New Article: Data access methods used in Firebird.

Changes

The following was fixed or changed since Jaybird 6.0.1 / Jaybird 5.0.7:

  • Improvement: added authPlugins property on FBManager (#866 / #865)
  • Improvement: increased default and maximum SQL info sizes used for retrieving statement information like columns, parameters and plan information (#869 / #868)
  • Improvement: backported inline blob support (Firebird 5.0.3 and higher) from Jaybird 7 (#870 / #871)
  • Improvement: The time zone mapping was updated (#874 / #875)

Bug reports about undocumented changes in behavior are appreciated. Feedback can be sent to Firebird-java or reported on the issue tracker https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/jaybird/issues.

Jaybird 6.0.2

Jaybird 6 supports Firebird 3.0 and higher, on Java 17, Java 21, and Java 24.

See also:

Jaybird 5.0.8

Jaybird 5 supports Firebird 2.5 and higher, on Java 8, Java 11, Java 17, Java 21, and Java 24 (support for Java 11 and higher using the Java 11 version of the driver). 

See also:

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RED EXPERT 2025.04 HAS BEEN RELEASED

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New version of Red Expert 2025.04 is available.

What’s new?

Added:

  1. Displaying the execution time of each query in the editor
  2. A dialog informing about new version of the application
  3. Ability to select driver when executing SQL script from a file
  4. Ability to open the file location from the editor

Fixed:

  1. Memory leaks when using the application for long time
  2. Scaling the application window on HiDPI monitors
  3. Adding drivers for connection
  4. Creating constraints using TABLESPACE
  5. Creating constraints using “USING <index>”
  6. Editing tablespaces
  7. Using negative values in fields with DOUBLE PRECISION type
  8. Activity of editor toolbar buttons after changing it in the settings
  9. Switching between executed requests in the editor
  10. Search for nodes by name in the connection tree

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