Final version of Firebird 5.0.0 is available for download.

Firebird 5.0 RC2 is available for download and testing.

IBProvider V5.34 has been released.

Upscene Productions announce the availability of a new release of Database Workbench (V6.3.2).

Jaybird 5.0.3 has been released.

Jaybird 4.0.10 has been released. Jaybird 4.0.10 is the last release of Jaybird 4, and Jaybird 4 is now end-of-life. We recommend upgrading to Jaybird 5.

Flamerobin 0.9.10 Snapshot has been released.

ADO.NET provider 10.0.0.0 for Firebird is available (with Entity Framework Core 7.0 support)

Firebird V4.0.4 for QNAP NAS is available.

Writing Firebird UDRs in Pascal.

Firebird V4.0.4 is available.

IBX for Lazarus V2.6.3 is now available.

Rust Firebird Client updated to V0.23.2.

RedExpert 2023.10.1 has been released.

Flamerobin 0.9.9 Snapshot has been released with a few updates/fixes.

Real-time Firebird – Monitor for Firebird version V1.6.0.166 is available.

Firebird V5.0 RC1 has been released.

Final release of Native OLE DB Provider for Firebird V4.

Database .NET V35.5 is released.

RedExpert 2023.08 has been released

Upgrading Firebird provider to Entity Framework Core 7

Upscene releases Database Workbench V6.3.0

IBProvider V5.31 has been released.

Firebird 4.0.3 and Firebird 3.0.11 have been released.

New features in Firebird V5.0.

Firebird to CSV converter is a free program to export Firebird or Interbase databases into comma separated values (CSV) files. The program has high performance due to direct reading of the source database and writing into CSV files. Firebird to CSV converter does not use ODBC or any other middleware. Command line support allows to script, automate and schedule the conversion process.

Real-time Firebird – Monitor for Firebird – Server V1.5.6.161 is available.

New release of firebird-lib driver extension package V1.4.0 with initial support for Firebird 5.0 is available for download.

Firebird External Table Generator (ext-table-gen) V1.0 has been released . More information .

IBProvider V5.30 is available. DECFLOAT and improved connection pool [Firebird 4]

New release of firebird-driver package V1.9.0 with initial support for Firebird 5.0 is available for download.

Firebird Dialect for SQLAlchemy 2.0 is released.

Jaybird V5.0.2 has been released and is available for download.

IBProvider V5.29. Initial support of Firebird V4.

Flamerobin 0.9.7 Snapshot released.

Database Workbench 6.2 has been released.

IBProvider V5.28 has been released.

Saturnin (a Firebird Butler Platform for Python) version 0.8.0 has been released, along with packages with core services and SDK.

Saturnin can now be considered as early beta. There will be more additions, extensions and improvements before the 1.0 release, but the platform is almost feature-complete, and the functionality provided is considered stable and ready for testing. However, some backwards incompatible changes in future releases are still possible.

Firebird 5.0 Beta 1 is available for download and testing. It would be appreciated if users and developers could give it a try and provide feedback where applicable to the development mailing list. Bugs can be reported directly to the bugtracker.

Node-firebird-driver-native version 3.10 has been released.

Rust Firebird Client has been updated to V0.23.0

Firebird usage from Android/C++ through JNI

Firebird-base 1.6.1 driver has been released. The firebird-base package is a set of Python 3 modules commonly used by Firebird Project in various development projects

rfirebird – A Firebird tool for raw access to database files. (only use on offline copies).

Upgrading FirebirdClient (and Entity Framework Core provider) to .NET 7. Videos Parts 1 and 2 are published by Jiri Cincura.

How to write and build UDRs by Paul Reeves

New release of firebird-base package V1.6.0 is available for download.

Jaybird 5.0.1 and 4.0.9 has been released.

RedExpert 2023.01 has been released.

News update from IBProvider.

IBPhoenix announce the availability of their new Trace Plugin.

Upscene announce the availability of a new version of their test data generator tool, Advanced Data Generator 4.1.0.

ADO.NET Provider 9.1.1.0 for Firebird is available for download.

Elixir Database Driver for Firebird V0.3.6 has been released.

Erlang Firebird client library : efirebirdsql 0.9.2 has been released.

Rust Firebird Client has been updated to V0.22.0.

Firebird high-level native client for Node.js/TypeScript has been updated to V3.0.1

Jaybird 5.0.0 has been released.

Database .NET V35 has been released.

Php-Firebird driver 3.0.1 has been released.

Jaybird 5.0.0-beta-1 is available for testing.

firebird_fdw 1.3.0 has been released.

IBPhoenix would like to wish all Firebird developers and users a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

Real-time Firebird – Monitor for Firebird – Server 2.5/3.0/4.0 V1.5.5.160 is available.

New release of firebird-driver package V1.8.0 is available for download.

Firebird driver for Elixir (firebirdex) 0.3.4 is available.

Firebird Advent Calendar 2022.

Improved Hibernate ORM Firebird dialect support.

Batch API benchmark.

New release of firebird-driver package V1.7.0 is available for download.

Jaybird 4.0.8 has been released.

Django firebird driver V2.2.1 has been released.

Jaybird 4.0.7 has been released.

Node Firebird driver node-firebird 1.1.3 has been released.

ADO.NET Provider 9.1.0.0 for Firebird is available for download.

Updated Interbase DataPump , that now works correctly with Firebird 3.x

New release of firebird-base package V1.4.3 is available for download.

Upscene announce the availability of Database Workbench V6.1.2.

Real-time Firebird – Monitor for Firebird – Server 2.5/3.0/4.0 V1.5.5.159 is available.

Updated Rust Firebird Client (V0.21.0) is available.

New release of extension package for Firebird driver - firebird-lib v1.2.2 is available for download.

Upscene Productions announces the availability of "Hopper" V2.2.0, a stored routine debugger for InterBase, Firebird and MySQL.

New release of Firebird driver for Python v1.6.0 is available for download.

Real-time Firebird – Monitor for Firebird – Server 2.5/3.0/4.0 V1.5.5.158 is available.

Ruby Firebird Extension Library update to 0.9.3

New Firebird PHP driver pre-release for PHP 8.1.x

Firebird for SQLAlchemy 0.7.6 has been released.

New release of Firebird base package for Python V1.4.2 is available for download.

RedExpert 2022.09 has been released.

New releases of Firebird driver for Python v1.5.2 and Firebird driver extension library for Python v1.2.1 are available for download.

New release of Firebird base package for Python V1.4.1 is available for download.

Accessing Firebird With Diesel and Rust - Luis Fernando Batels recently launched the rsfbclient-diesel adapter, which enabled diesel to work with Firebird. This post is a continuation of his previous post, where he showed how to use Firebird with Rust. Now he shows how to improve this usage with an ORM layer.

Open source databases: What are they and why do they matter? On the Register.

Rust Firebird Client updated to V0.20.0.

How to install Firebird 3.0 and 4.0 on Linux.

IBX 2.5.0 is now available for download.

New release of Firebird driver for Python V1.5.1 is available for download.

Firebird 4.0.2 for QNAP NAS.

Firebird V4.0.2 has been released. More information in the release notes.

Rust Firebird Client updated to V0.19.0.

Rust Firebird Client updated to V0.18.0.

IBReplicator V5.0.7 has been released. More information in the Release Notes.

FirebirdSQL .NETProvider V9.0.2.0 has been released.

Firebird 3.0.10 Docker image has been released.

Full Text Search UDR for Firebird 3 and 4 based on Lucene++.

Firebird 3.0.10 for QNAP NAS is available.

Source Code of IBProvider Client For Firebird is available on GitHub.

Firebird 3.0.10 is available.

An updated version of RedExpert (2022.05) is available.

New release of Firebird driver for Python V1.5.0 is available for download.

LibreOffice V7.3.3 is now available.

Real-time Firebird – Monitor for Firebird – Server 2.5/3.0 /4.0 has been updated (V1.5.5.157).

PyFirebirdSql 1.2.2 has been released.

Jaybird V4.0.6 has been released.

FirebirdSQL/NETProvider Release 9.0.1.0 is available for download.

Django-firebird 2.2.0 has been released.

Database .NET V34 has been released.

FirebirdSQL/NETProvider Release 9.0.0.0 is available for download.

New release of Firebird driver for Python V1.4.3 is available for download.

Firebird 4.0.1 and Firebird 3.0.9 Docker images are now available.

This article about Firebird was recently published on HostingAdvice.com.

Firebird driver for Laravel 9 has been released.

New version of RedExpert (2022.02) is available.

Firebird 3.0.9 is available in Debian testing.

Install Firebird on a QNAP NAS.

Firebird 3.0.8 and 4.0.1 for QNAP NAS, now officially available via QNAP’s app store (only for Intel 64Bit systems).

Firebird 3.0.9 is available for download.

dbMigration .NET V15.0 has been released.

Node-firebird-driver-native version 2.4.0 has been released.

Upscene releases Database Workbench V6.0

An updated version of Real-time Firebird – Monitor for Firebird – Server 2.5/3.0/4.0 (V1.5.4.155) is available.

Firebird Grammar railroad diagram.

Jaybird 4.0.5 and Jaybird 3.0.12 have been released.

A short overview of Firebird project events that took place in 2021.

Install Firebird-Server 4.0.1 on a QNAP NAS.

Firebird V4.0.1 has been released and is available for download.

New release of Firebird driver for Python V1.4.1 is available for download.

Jaybird is not directly vulnerable to the Log4j CVEs.

EFCore (Entity Framework Core V6.0) Provider for IBProvider has been released.

firebird-test-containers-java V1.2.0 has been released.

New release of Firebird driver for Python V1.4.0 is available for download.

Flamerobin 0.9.3.11 Snapshot released with new Firebird 4 features and fixes

A new version of IBEasy+ has been released that supports Firebird 4.

New release of Firebird driver for Python v1.3.4 is available for download.

The new translation of Firebird Language Reference is now available in German, "Firebird 3.0 Sprachreferenz". Many thanks to Martin Köditz.

Firebird V3.0.8 on a QNAP NAS.

Julia Firebird Driver version V0.2.2 is released.

Firebird 3.0.8 Docker image is available.

Firebird 3.0.8 has been released and is available for download.

Is Firebird 4 slower than Firebird 3? No, it is not.

ADO.NET provider 8.5.4 for Firebird is available for download. Release Notes.

IBProvider update - Visual Studio 2022 support

Firebird Foreign Data Wrapper firebird_fdw V1.2.2 has been released with minor bugfixes/improvements and also PostgreSQL 14 support.

A new version of RedExpert (2021.10) is now available.

Golang Firebird Driver V0.9.3 is released with a few Firebird 4 features and fixes.

Erlang Firebird client library : efirebirdsql V0.8.1 is released with Firebird 4 changes.

IBX V2.4.3 is now available for download

Julia Firebird Driver version V0.2.1 released with a few Firebird 4 features and fixes.

Firebird GitHub Action sets up a Firebird 4,0 database running on a docker container.

New release of Firebird driver for Python v1.3.3 is available for download.

Firebird Editor Pro 10.0.0 has been released.

New release of driver extension library firebird-lib v1.2.0 for Python is available for download.

Sqlalchemy-Firebird V0.7.5 has been released.

Database .NET V33.4 released.

Jaybird 4.0.4 has been released and is available for download. More details in the Release Notes.

New release of legacy FDB driver for Python v2.0.2 is available for download.

Firebird 4 port for FreeBSD has been released.

IBX 2.4.2 is available for download.

New release of Firebird driver for Python v1.3.2 is available for download.

New release of Firebird driver for Python v1.3.1 is available for download.

Golang Firebird Driver V0.9.2 is released with a few Firebird 4 features.

ADO.NET provider 8.5.3 for Firebird is available for download. Release Notes.

New release of Firebird driver for Python v1.3.0 is available for download.

ADO.NET provider 8.5.2.0 for Firebird is available for download.

ADO.NET provider 8.5.1.0 for Firebird is available for download.

Real-time Firebird – Monitor for Firebird – Server 2.5 3.0/4.0 V1.5.3.153 is available. This version now supports Firebird 4 final release

An updated version of Red Expert (2021.07) has been released.

ADO.NET provider 8.5.0.0 for Firebird is available for download. More information about the release.

Rust Firebird Client updated to V0.17.0

Firebird Technical Specifications updated for Firebird 4.0

Node-firebird-driver-native V2.3.0 has been released.

Announcement: Jaybird 3 end of updates, from Mark Rotteveel "With Jaybird 4 available for over a year, I have decided that Jaybird 3 will only receive updates – if necessary – until the end of 2021."

dbMigration .NET V14.3 is available with support for bulk insert and asynchronous processing.

Survey: JavaScript/Node.js routines in Firebird.

The Laravel Firebird driver has been updated to V2.4.1

Adriano Fernandes has uploaded a test version of Firebird 4.0 for Raspberry Pi (aarch64).

Firebird Docker images for ARM64 and ARM/V7 are available.

Install Firebird V4.0 on a QNAP NAS

IBPhoenix would like to announce the beta availablity of an ODBC connectivity plugin for Firebird that allows Firebird to connect directly to other ODBC databases using the "Execute Statement On External Data Source" syntax. Currently the plugin is available for Windows (32/64bit).

Firebird 4.0 Docker image has been released.

Golang Firebird driver V0.9.1 has been released.

Node.js Firebird Driver V2.2.0 now supports Firebird 4 data types.

openSUSE virtual conference: Firebird: the high performance database that you didn't know was already on your system. Installed with Libre Office, Firebird is a vastly capable RDMS. 19/06/2021 15:00 - 15:45 Stage 1. Speaker Patrick Firzgerald.

Firebird 4.0 "in testing" for Fedora EPEL 8.

Real-time Firebird – Monitor for Firebird – Server 2.5/3.0/4.0 V1.5.3.152 has been released.

New versions of firebird-base V1.3.0 and firebird-driver V1.2.1 are released via PyPI.

New Flamerobin snapshot available (0.9.3.8)

Top 15 Databases to Use in 2021 and Beyond on Appinventiv mentions Firebird.

Database .NET V32.6 has been released.

New versions of firebird-base 1.3.0 and firebird-driver 1.2.1 were released via PyPI.

New version of firebird-driver 1.2.0 was released via PyPI.

Firebird 4.0 has been released.

How to use the Firebird with Rust.

FirebirdMonitorTool – a tool for processing Firebird’s trace output.

Firebird high-level native client for Node.js/TypeScript has been updated to V2.1.2

dbMigration .NET V13.7 has been released.

Firebird Bug Tracker (JIRA) has been migrated to GitHub Issues. (Also Jaybird, Website, ODBC, .NET provider, FDB and Testing).

The issue tracker for the Firebird documentation has moved.

Firebird 4 Migration Guide (pdf).

Real-time Firebird – Monitor for Firebird – Server 2.5/3.0/4.0 V1.5.2.144 is available.

Firebird driver for Erlang V0.7.0 has been released.

Firebird driver for Elixir V0.1.1 has been released.

Database .NET v32.2 (with support for asynchronous processing) is available.

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 evauate this version of Firebird, please contact us.

ADO.NET provider 8.0.1.0 has been released. More information (critical bug fix).

A new version of RedExpert (2021.03) has been released.

ADO.NET provider 8.0.0.0 for Firebird is available for download. More detailed information.

Rust Firebird Client updated to V0.16.0 with a few features and enhancements.

Jaybird 4.0.3 and JayBird 3.0.11 have been released.

Tutorial on how to use Firebird on Android.

NodeJS C++ client node-firebird-libfbclient V0.1.5 has been released.

New versions of all Python packages from Firebird Project are available for download on PyPI: firebird-base 1.2.0, firebird-driver 1.1.0 , firebird-lib 1.0.1 , firebird-butler-protobuf 0.3.1 , saturnin 0.7.0 , saturnin-core 0.7.0 and saturnin-sdk 0.7.0.

IBX 2.4.0 for Lazarus is now available.

Entity Framework Core provider for Firebird updated with EFCore 5 support.

Firebird 3.0.x Android 64bit builds are available.

Firebird 3.0 Language Reference (English) has been released. Now available as a pdf or as html.

A new version of RedExpert (2021.02) is available.

Firebird 4.0 RC1 Docker image is available for testing.

Interview with Ann Harrison at Developer’s Pub on the main Firebird web site.

Firebird 4.0 Release Candidate 1 is available.

PHP Firebird V1.1.1 has been released.

Jaybird 4.0.2 has been released.

Jaybird 3.0.10 has been released.

firebird-testcontainers-java 1.1.0 has been released.

Database .NET V31.6 and dbMigration .NET V13.2 are released.

Pre-release PHP Firebird V1.1.0

Firebird Embedded in a sandboxed MacOS App.

Flamerobin snapshot V0.9.3.5 is available with a few fixes and small new features.

A short overview of 2020 and Firebird.

Rust Firebird Client updated to V0.14.0.

Load testing of IBProvider V5.21.1 and Firebird V3.0.7

Real-time Firebird – Monitor for Firebird – Server 2.5/3.0/4.0 V1.5.1.142 is available.

IBPhoenix would like to wish Firebird users and developers a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

Rust Firebird Client has been updated to V0.13.0.

Firebird high-level native client for Node.js/TypeScript is updated to V2.1.1

Firebird Laravel driver is updated with support for Laravel 8.

An updated version of the Firebird PHP driver is now available for download (V1.1.0).

PyfirebirdSQL V1.1.4 has been released with changes that support Firebird 4.0.

Firebird high-level native client for Node.js/TypeScript has been updated to V2.1.1

Firebird ADO.NET provider 7.10.1.0 is available for download. An overview of all the changes can be found in the tracker. Details for 7.10.0.0 can also be found on the tracker.

Net Latency and Firebird Performance by Paul Reeves.

New version of Firebird-base package for Python release 1.1.0 is available for download.

Avalerion 3.0.7 is available for download.

Firebird PSQL Profiler (for Firebird 4.1?).

Flamerobin Package 0.9.3.4 has been uploaded into Firebird 3.0.x ppa. There are packages for: Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal), Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) and 16.04 (Xenial).

FB TraceManager V3.7.0. This release adds experimental support for Firebird 4 Beta 2 and more.

Installing a Firebird-Server (3.0.7) on a 64bit Intel QNAP NAS.

New version of rsfbclient released as V0.12.0.

firebird_fdw, a foreign data wrapper for PostgreSQL providing read and write access to Firebird databases, is now available as V1.2.0.

New version of RedExpert 2020.10 has been released.

IBProvider V5.21. SQL query parser cache implementation.

Firebird V3.0.7 has been released.

New Firebird driver for Python release 1.0.0 is available for download, together with brand new extension package firebird-lib.

Global Mining Review, "Goodby Miners", mentions Firebird.

New Firebird driver for Python release 0.8.0 is now considered as stable for Firebird 3. This release also comes with full documentation.

Rust Firebird Client has been updated with Firebird wire protocol implemented in pure Rust and also support for ARM.

Upscene announces V2.1.1 of "Hopper", a stored routine debugger for InterBase, Firebird and MySQL.

New Firebird driver for Python – release 0.7.0. This version provides support for new Firebird 4 data types: TIME/TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE, DECFLOAT and extended DECIMAL/NUMERIC via internal INT128 storage.

New Flamerobin snapshot available (0.9.3.3). Increased Firebird 3 compatibility and a new dependency interface.

DIGITAL DRILLING DATA SYSTEMS, L.L.C., Plaintiff - Appellant Cross-Appellee v. PETROLINK SERVICES, INCORPORATED, Defendant - Appellee Cross-Appellant mentions Firebird.

Rust Firebird Client that binds to the official Firebird client library.

RedExpert 2020.08 has been released.

Jaybird V4.0.1 is available for download. More details can be found in the release notes.

firebird-testcontainers-java V1.0.4 has been released.

IBProvider V5.19 is avaiable.

Real-time Firebird – Monitor for Firebird – Server 2.5/3.0/4.0 V1.4.3.132 is available. This version now supports Firebird 4 Beta 2.

FB/Java External Engine Plugin 1.0.0-beta-1 is now available for download.

Give your local database admin a hug – it's DBA Appreciation Day on The Register.

How to install a Firebird server on a QNAP NAS.

New Firebird driver for Python – release 0.6.0. More details about this release can be seen in this email.

Firebird 3.0.6 64bit MacOS build is available. From MacOSX 10.15 (Catalina) all 32bit applications are now officially deprecated. Please contact IBPhoenix directly if a 32bit or lipo Firebird build is needed.

Firebird V3.0.6 is available for download.

New Firebird driver for Python – preview release. More details about this release can be seen in this email.

Django-Firebird V2.2a1 is released.

Dev[1].Pub: Interview with Dmitry Yemanov.

Firebird 2.5 Language Reference has been migrated to AsciiDoc.

MWA Software announce that V2.3.4 of IBX for Lazarus is now available for download.

Firebird Editor Pro 5.0.1 has been released.

Jaybird V3.0.9 has been released.

RED SOFT has added support of Firebird 3 into the Django 2.2 framework.

LCPI ADO.NET Provider for OLE DB V1.19

Firebird V4.0 Beta 2 is now available for download and testing.

The Firebird driver for Laravel has been updated with support for Laravel 6 and 7.

New Firebird driver for Python.

Firebird Editor Pro Version 4.0.0 has been released.

RedExpert V2020.04.1 is available for download.

Database Workbench 5.7.2 is available.

Upscene announce the availability of the next major version of their test data generator tool: Advanced Data Generator V4.0.2.

IBProvider V5.15 is available.

Firebird Editor Pro V2.0 is available.

How to install Firebird 3.0.5 on a QNAP NAS

Upscene release V2.1 of "Hopper", a stored routine debugger.

Compiling Flamerobin under MacOS.

Jiri Cincura - Real world experience with FbNetExternalEngine performance and code structure.

FbNetExternalEngine V4.0 has been released. This version contains one significant feature and that’s a migration to .NET Core.

Upscene releases Database Workbench V5.7.0.

Real-time Firebird – Monitor for Firebird – Server 2.5/3.0 V1.3.10.109 has been released.

Jaybird 4.0.0 is now available for download. More information can be found in the release notes.

Database .NET V30 and dbMigration .NET V12 have been released.

Firebird Conference: Workshop "All About Transactions", Part 5.

Firebird Conference: Workshop "All About Transactions", Part 4.

The Firebird Documentation project has replaced the existing Ant build with Gradle. Here are the updated instructions.

Firebird Conference: Workshop "All About Transactions", Part 3.

Firebird Conference: Workshop "All About Transactions", Part 2.

Firebird Conference: Workshop "All About Transactions", Part 1.

LCPI ADO.NET Provider for OLE DB V1.17. IBProvider have released a new version of their ADO.NET provider with a DDEX provider for VS2017/VS2019 and .NET Standard 2.0

Firebird Conference: Popular Firebird Myths.

FirebirdWebAdmin V3.4.1 has been released.

Firebird Conference: Effective development of Firebird applications in Delphi/Lazarus.

Firebird Conference: Comparing Firebird databases with FirebirdDbComparer by Jiri Cincura.

On The Register 25 years of Delphi and no Oracle in sight: Not a Visual Basic killer but hard to kill.

Firebird Conference: Workshop "Optimization of SQL Queries", Part 3.

Firebird Conference: Workshop "Optimization of SQL Queries", Part 2.

Firebird Conference: Workshop "Optimization of SQL Queries", Part 1.

ADO.NET provider 7.5.0.0 for Firebird is available (with Entity Framework Core 3.1 support). Overview of all the changes can be found in the tracker.

Mark Rotteveel has released firebird-testcontainers-java V1.0.3.This version updates the testcontainers-java dependency to version 1.12.5.

IBProvider V5.11. now supports WireCompression.

Upscene announce the release of "Advanced Data Generator 4".

Mark Rotteveel released V3.0.5.1 of the Firebird Native Client Distribution for Jaybird. This version provides the Firebird 3.0.5 client library for use with Jaybird 3 or higher.

Jaybird 4.0.0 beta 2 is available for download and testing.

Firebird V3.0.5 builds for MacOS and Android are now available.

Firebird V3.0.5 is now available for download. Android and MacOS builds will follow later.

Firebird high-level native client for Node.js/TypeScript has been updated to V2.1.0

IBProvider V5.10 is available.

IBPhoenix would like to wish all Firebird users a happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

Firebird Conference: Firebird Butler in Python part I, Introduction to Saturnin SDK.

FireSwarm 0.2 (Release Candidate) is available for download and testing.

Firebird Conference: Recovery of Firebird Databases.

Firebird driver for PHP 7.4 is available for download.

Firebird Conference: A deep dive into IB Objects.

Django 3.0 driver for Firebird (4.0+) has been released.

Firebird high-level native client for Node.js/TypeScript updated to V2.0 with a few changes.

Firebird Conference: An Introduction to IB Objects.

Firebird Conference: Workshop "Database Encryption".

IBProvider V5.9 and LCPI OLE DB Services V1.12 are available.

Firebird Conference: FbNetExternalEngine.

Crowdfunding: Adapt Firebirdsql.org for mobile devices.

Firebird Conference: Go to Web with CloudaIDE.

Firebird Conference: Fireswarm/Avalerion.

Firebird Conference: NET core + Firebird.

Firebird Conference: PHP + Firebird.

Firebird Conference: The Firebird Butler, An Introduction.

Jaybird 3.0.8 has been released.

Firebird Conference: Whats new in the .NET driver for Firebird.

Firebird Conference: Python with Firebird: FDB Driver 101.

NodeJS C++ client node-firebird-libfbclient V0.1.4 has been released with fixes for current node versions (LTS) (also works with NW.js).

Firebird Conference: Best Practices in Firebird Security - from Firebird 2.5 to 4.0.

Upscene releases Database Workbench V5.6.10.

dbMigration .NET V11.7 has been released.

Real-time Firebird – Monitor for Firebird – Server 2.5/3.0, V1.3.10.107 has been released.

Jaybird 3.0.7 has been released. Release notes.

Firebird Conference 2019: New transaction features and changes in garbage collection in Firebird V4.

Firebird Conference 2019: Advanced Replication in Firebird 4.

Firebird high-level native client for Node.js / TypeScript has been updated to V1.1.0 Beta 1 with support for Firebird Events.

Firebird Conference 2019: Replication in Firebird 4: Configuration and practical examples.

PyFirebirdSql V1.1.3 has been released.

Golang Firebird sql driver gains events support with this pull request.

Firebird Conference 2019: Firebird on the road from V4 to V5.

Firebird Conference 2019: Multi-thread sweep, backup and restore by Vlad Horsun.

You can use and test a Firebird 4.0 Beta Docker image based on Debian Buster.

Red Expert multiplatform Firebird development and administration tool. GPL and free to download.

Firebird high-level native client for Node.js / Typescript has been updated to V1.0.1.

IBProvider (V5.7) and "LCPI OLE DB Services" (V1.10) have been updated.

Firebird 3.0.5 testing has been uploaded to Firebird 3.0.X Ubuntu PPA (bionic).

Jiri Cincura has released FbNetExternalEngine 3.0. More information.

Upscene release Advanced Data Generator 3.3.1.

IBProvider release LCPI ADO.NET Provider for OLE DB V1.14.1

Database Workbench V5.6.8 has been released.

Firebird 3 Embedded framework on MacOSX on Paul Beach's blog.

Firebird Conference 2019: Detailed Schedule.

A new version (7.1.1.0) of ADO.NET provider for Firebird is available for download. This is a small bug-fix release related to wire encryption on Linux. An overview of all the changes can be found on the tracker.

ADO.NET provider 7.1.0.0 for Firebird is available. The main focus of this release is performance. More details via the tracker.

Firebird Conference 2019 Announcement: Workshop "All About Transactions"

Development of an open-ended clustering solution for Firebird named FireSwarm is continuing. Now you can try an experimental version (0.2) which also now works on Linux.

Real-time Firebird – Monitor for Firebird – Server 2.5/3.0 V1.3.9.104 is available.

IBProvider V5.6 has been released.

Firebird Conference 2019: Sessions about very large databases.

The upcoming Flyway 6 version adds support for Firebird 3. (Flyway is a tool to manage and perform database schema evolution or database migrations). More details about using Flyway with Firebird on Mark Rotteveel's blog.

ADO.NET provider 7.0.0.0 for Firebird is available for download. The main focus of this release is wire encryption. More details via the tracker.

Database .NET 28.4 and dbMigration .NET 11.1 have been released.

firebird-testcontainers-java V1.0.2 has been released.

Real-time Firebird – Monitor for Firebird – Server 2.5 / 3.0, version 1.3.9.104 is available.

IBProvider - ADO.NET provider V1.13.1 has been released

ADO.NET provider 6.7.0.0 for Firebird is available for download. Overview of all the changes can be found in the tracker.

Mark Rotteveel releases firebird-testcontainers-java version 1.0.1.

IBPhoenix have released the thirty first Developer DVD.

The FDB Python driver for Firebird v2.0.1 is available for download

The Firebird server and database maintenance utility FBUpkeep has been released by IBPhoenix.

Firebird high-level native client for Node.js/TypeScript has been updated to V1.0.0 beta 3.

Firebird 2.5.9 has been released.

IBProvider V5.51 is available

Mark Rotteveel has just released org.firebirdsql:firebird-testcontainers-java:1.0.0. See https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird-testcontainers-java and https://www.testcontainers.org/ for more details.

IBProvider V5.5. This IBProvider update provides support for Firebird V3.0.4 authentication methods: Srp224, Srp256, Srp384 and Srp512.

The Ultimate Open Source Database List Profiling 16 Software Tools on Data Management Solutions Review mentions Firebird.

Database Workbench 5.6.4 has been released.

Jaybird 3.0.6 has been released. The release contains the following fixes and changes.

IBProvider V5.4 and LCPI ADO.NET Provider for OLE DB V1.13. More information.

Early Bird pricing for the Firebird Conference, October 2019, Berlin Germany will no longer be available after the end of May. So book your place now!

Firebird Native Client Distribution for Jaybird (a bundle of Firebird native client libraries for use with Jaybird 3 and higher). This bundle packages fbclient.dll / libfbclient.so for Windows and Linux platforms (32 and 64 bit), and can be used with Jaybird for the native and local protocols. It does not support the embedded protocol.

An update for Real-time Firebird – Monitor for Firebird – Server 2.5/ 3.0 is available.

Interbase DataPump 3.5 is available from Clever Components, now works with Firebird 3.x

The first beta for Jaybird 4 is available for download and testing. Feedback can be sent to the Firebird-java mailing list or reported on the issue tracker.

From Mark Rotteveel "Jaybird 4 is nearing completion, and I expect to release the first beta of Jaybird 4 next week".

IBProvider - Support for Visual Studio 2019.

Jaybird 2.2.15 is available for download. More information is in the release notes.

How to improve the performance of gbak.

A new version of ADO.NET provider (6.6.0.0) for Firebird is ready for download. More details.

DB Explorer For Firebird Databases, explore and run queries against your Firebirddatabases without leaving Visual Studio.

Database .NET V27.2 has been released.

Firebird high-level native client for Node.js/TypeScript has been updated to V0.1.3.

CleverComponents put the Interbase DataPump source code on GitHub.

New versions of IBProvider. IBProvider V5.1, improved integration of provider subsystems, IBProvider V5.2, removed obsolete OLE DB properties.

The Firebird Project is pleased to announce the first tangible results of Firebird Butler Project - Saturnin SDK milestone 1 release (V0.2). Available in both saturnin-sdk GIT repository and PyPI (packages saturnin-sdk and saturnin-sdk-examples).

Upscene releases Database Workbench 5.6.2.

IBX for Lazarus V2.3.3 is now available for download.

Elixir Database Driver for Firebird, Firebirdex 0.0.4 has been released.

Erlang Firebird client library efirebirdsql 0.5.7 has been released.

ADO.NET Provider for OLE DB V1.11 is available.

FB Smtp Udf, V1.1 is now available from github in source and binary form.

Upscene has released Database Workbench 5.6.0.

The battle between real open source vs. faux open source heats up on ZDNet.

Firebird V4.0 Beta 1 is available for download and testing.

Elixir database driver for Firebird, FIREBIRDEX 0.0.3 has been released.

Erlang Firebird client library, efirebirdsql 0.5.5 has been released.

Firebird high-level native client for Node.js / TypeScript has been updated to V0.1.2.

Version 6.5.0.0 of the ADO.NET provider for Firebird is available for download. More details about this release.

IBProvider V5 has been released.

Erlang Firebird client library: efirebirdsql 0.5.2 has been released.

A new driver for the Elixir programming language.

FireSwarm CDC (change data capture) plugins are now available for Linux.

LibreOffice 6.2 is available. Firebird related release notes.

An updated version of Avalerion is available for download. with improved plugin search and error messages.

We are pleased to announce a significant extension of the Firebird project to a whole new area. Starting in February 2019, alongside the core (Fierbird database system) and database drivers, a completely new division called Firebird Butler will be integrated into the project.

FireSwarm (a multi-master replication system for clustering databases running under the Avalerion builds of Firebird 3+ on Windows) is available for download as a Beta Test.

IBReplicator V5.0.6 has been released. More information in the release notes.

Upscene releases Database Workbench 5.5.0. List of changes.

Firebird Docker image has been updated to 3.0.4

FbNetExternalEngine V1.0 has been released by Jiri Cincura. FbNetExternalEngine is plugin for Firebird 3+ that allows you to write stored procedures, (functions and triggers coming soon) in any .NET language. More information.

Three new builtin functions: base64_encode/decode and crc32 in the Firebird master branch.

IBX 2.3.2 is now available for download with Lazarus 2.0 support.

EF Core Database Providers on InfoQ mentions Firebird.

PyFirebirdSql V1.1.2 has been released.

dbMigration .NET V10 has been released.

IBPhoenix would like to wish its customers and all Firebird users a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

IBProvider V3.54 and "LCPI OLE DB Services" V1.6 as well as ADO.NET Provider V1.9.1.

FirebirdDbComparer now has Firebird 3.x packages support.

Firebird high-level native client for Node.js/TypeScript is updated to V0.1.1

A new version of the "Real-time Firebird – Monitor for Firebird – Server 2.5/3.0" is available.

Alex Peshkoff has added eight new builtin functions supporting various encryption algorithms in the Firebird master branch.

AWS not playing fair with open source projects, claims Redis Labs on Computing.

LibreOffice 6.2 Beta 1 is ready for testing. Support for Base files using embedded Firebird becomes non experimental in this release.

Firebird Advent Calendar 2018 – Time for inspiration. Meiji Kimura and Hajime Nakagami have created a Firebird Advent Calendar for 2018, here Firebird Japanese community will post articles in each day of Advent period (note: anyone can participate even with English articles).

LibreOffice 6.2 Beta 1 Bug Hunting Day - dedicated session from 13:00 to 15:00 UTC for Base support of the Firebird embedded engine and Access2Base basic library Firebird 3 support.

Real-time Firebird – Monitor for Firebird – Server 2.5/3.0, V1.3.8.92 is now available.

LCPI ADO.NET Provider V1.9. Service update.

Avalerion 3.0.4 for 64bit Linux is available for download.

ADO.NET provider 6.4.0.0 is available for download. An overview of all the changes can be found in tracker.

Upscene releases Database Workbench V5.4.6

Database .NET V26 has been released.

Real-time Firebird – Monitor for Firebird 2.5/3.0, a new version is available (V1.3.8.90).

Django-firebird 1.11 final release is now available on pypi.

Avalerion for Firebird 3.0.4 is available. The Linux 64bit build will follow shortly.

Load testing of IBProvider V3.52.1 and Firebird V3.0.4. 100% completion.

Firebird 3.0.4 MacOSX builds are now available.

Firebird 3.0.4 is acailable for download. This sub-release offers many bug fixes and also adds a few improvements, please refer to the Release Notes for the full list of changes. MacOSX builds will follow shortly.

Firebird foreign data wrapper V0.4.0 for PostgreSQL is available.

IBPhoenix encryption plugin now has support for gbak and the Firebird Service Manager.

IBProvider V3.53 has been released.

Jaybird 3.0.5 has been released. See the full release notes for more information.

DBeaver – free SQL editor with Firebird support.

IBProvider V3.52.1

ADO.NET provider 6.3.0.0 for Firebird is available. More information. Overview of all the changes can be found on the tracker.

"Limits of the Firebird Database" document has now been updated.

Bipost Synchronization V1.1.0 has been released.

Firebird high-level native client for Node.js/TypeScript has been updated to V0.1.0 and marked as stable release.

ADO.NET provider 6.2.0.0 for Firebird is available for download. This version provides support for DROP PACKAGE and DROP PACKAGE BODY. Along with better support for encrypted databases – via services and database creation. An overview of all the changes can be found in tracker.

LibreOffice hits version 6.1 with design tweaks and improved e-booking on The Inquirer.

DBMS migration in LibreOffice.

dbMigration .NET V9.0 has been released.

Database .NET V25.2 has been released.

Firebird high-level native client for Node.js/TypeScript has been updated to V0.0.1-beta.3.

New version (6.1.0.0) of the ADO.NET provider for Firebird is available for download. The update provides support for MERGE, CREATE PACKAGE and CREATE PACKAGE BODY statements in FbScript.

Database Workbench 5.4.4 is available.

FirebirdDbComparer, a library for comparing Firebird databases to create alter scripts.

PDO_Firebird driver now supports boolean data type in Firebird 3.0.x

Upscene announce that stored routine debugger Hopper, version 2.0.1 has been released.

Real-time Firebird – Monitor for Firebird. Version V1.3.8.89 is available.

Firebird native client for Node.js/TypeScript updated to V0.0.1-beta.2.

We need help with Rails 5.x support for Firebird ActiveRecord adapter for Rails.

Sage Timeslips uses Firebird.

15th Firebird Developers Day, Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 18th August 2018,

FirebirdClient .NET 6.0 (plus EntityFramework and EntityFrameworkCore) is available for download. More information. Overview of all the changes via the tracker.

Load testing of IBProvider V3.50 and Firebird V3.0.4

Lazarus 1.8.4 is now available.

The frustrations of the long distance database application developer.

IBProvider "One Time Personal License".

FireBolt - Firebird RDBMS Database Admin tool. Works similar to FlameRobin (Windows servers 2008, 2012, 2016).

Connection Strings in Firebird 3 by Helen Borrie and Vlad Horsun. (.pdf) (129.44K)

IBProvider V3.50 is available.

Firebird Database Backup has been updated.

Firebird 3.0.3 is uploaded to Firebird 3.0.x Ubuntu ppa. Packages for Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic), 16.04 (Xenial), work in progress for 14.04 (Trusty).

Database .NET 24.8 and dbMigration .NET 8.4 have been released.

Jaybird 3.0.4 has been released. More information in the release notes.

May 2018, "Community Choice" SourceForge Project of the Month – Firebird.

Embedded Engine in Firebird 3 by Helen Borrie (pdf).

The FDB Python driver for Firebird v2.0 is available for download

Firebird Foreign Data Wrapper update.

Django-firebird 1.10 has been released.

Real Time Firebird Monitor V1.3.8.88 is available.

A new document, Authentication in Firebird 3 by Helen Borrie and Alex Peshkov is available.

German language Firebird forum (www.firebirdforum.de)

Final steps of LibreOffice database migration.

Django-firebird 1.9.1 has been released.

IBPhoenix announce the availability of an AES256 Encryption Plugin.

IBPhoenix now have a Firebird 3.x encryption plugin available for MacOSX.

ZeosLib 7.2.4 has been released.

FibPlus Github repository. An attempt to keep alive a suite of components that seems to be abandoned by Devrace.

Firebird Docker (based on Debian Jessie) updated to 2.5.8 and 3.0.3.

Vote for Firebird as Sourceforge Project of the month (May 2018)

Yii2-Firebird updated in git master with Yii2 2.0.14 compatibility.

XPO (an ORM) now supports Firebird 3.x.

IBProvider V3.49 has been released.

Firebird Referenz Dokumentation (German) is now available thanks to Martin Köditz and Mark Harris.

Upscene releases Database Workbench 5.4.2

The General Availability of Bipost Sync is announced.

Firebird Extension Library for Ruby 0.9 has been released with Firebird 3.0 support.

The Firebird 3 Developer's Guide, by Denis Simonov, is now available in English.

PyFirebirdSql V1.1.0 has been released.

Version 2.2.0 of IBX for Lazarus is now available for download.

DBMS migration in LibreOffice: HSQLDB binary import.

Database Parameter - isc_dpb_utf8_filename by IBPhoenix.

Are you an open-sorcerer or free software warrior? Let us do battle... on The Register.

DJFirebirdSQL : Django Firebird database backend using a pure python driver.

Updated Firebird MacOSX 2.5.8 builds are available. These builds fix a problem with pre 10.12 systems that generate a "symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _clock_gettime" error.

Avalerion for Firebird 3.0.3 is available for download.

dbMigration .NET 7.5 has been released.

The Firebird Roadmap has been updated for after the 3.0.3 release.

Firebird 3.0.3 is in Debian unstable.

Firebird 3.0.3 MacOSX builds are available.

Upscene releases Database Workbench 5.4.0.

Firebird 3.0.3 (Windows and Linux) are available for download.

In 2017, The Document Foundation (TDF) launched four tenders aimed at improving LibreOffice. Tender four is of interest to the Firebird community...

NodeJS C++ node-firebird-libfbclient (V0.1.2) has been updated.

Jaybird 4.0.0-SNAPSHOT is available for testing. Please read the release notes.

IBReplicator 5.0.5 is available for download. More details in the release notes.

Database .NET V24 has been released.

Updated Firebird Roadmap.

Firebird 2.5.8 MacOSX builds are available.

FbOpt Database Optimiser... a command-line tool for optimising Firebird databases.

Firebird 2.5.8 in now available for download (Windows and Linux). Release Notes.

Jaybird 3.0.3 (Release Notes) and 2.2.14 (Release Notes) are available for download.

IBPhoenix would like to wish all Firebird users and developers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

ADO.NET provider 5.12.1.0 for Firebird is available for download. An overview of all the changes can be found in the tracker.

Important information regarding Firebird and the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.

PyFirebirdSql 1.0.1 has been released. For more details see the commit log.

Firebird Perl extension DBD-Firebird version 1.31 has been released.

More presentations from the Firebird Tour 2017: Firebird 3 "Statistics and Plans" and "Advanced Trace API".

Jiří Činčura announces that the Entity Framework Core 2.0 provider for Firebird is now in beta.

SQL Maestro Group announce the release of Firebird PHP Generator Lite, a free Windows frontend to generate data-driven web applications for Firebird.

Code Quality Comparison of Firebird, MySQL, and PostgreSQL by Sergey Vasiliev.

Updated and revised Firebird ODBC Driver Manual.

Presentations from the Firebird Tour 2017, Firebird Performance and Tuning for Linux and Windows.

Firebird ADO.NET provider 5.12.0.0 is now available. Overview of all the changes.

Database .NET V23.5 and dbMigration .NET V6.8 have been released.

New IBProvider V3.47 and "LCPI ADO.NET Provider" for .NET Standard 2.0.

Firebird 2.5 Language Reference (V1.00) is available.

Firebird Docs is now on GitHub...

UDFs are now deprecated in Firebird 4. See the list of known incompatibilites. Users who still wish to use UDFs should set “UdfAccess” to “Restrict <path-list>”. The Recommended long-term solution is the replacement of UDFs with UDRs.

The first pre-beta release of the English version of the Firebird 3 Developers Guide is now publicly available....

fbtcs now on GitHub.

Firebird supported branches from GitHub are now configured on travis.

Tracker Add builtin functions FIRST_DAY and LAST_DAY now resolved by Adriano.

Upscene releases Database Workbench V5.3.4.

Ubuntu 17.10 has been released and it is available with Firebird 3.0.2 (Latest stable version)

Firebird ODBC driver repository has been moved to Github from the old CVS Repository at SourceForge.

IBReplicator V5.0.4 has been released. For more information please see the release notes.

Upscene announces the availability of version 2 of "Hopper" a stored routine debugger for InterBase, Firebird and MySQL. This version includes support for Firebird 3 packages and stored functions, MySQL diagnostic-statements, binary data in variables amongst other things.

The first (beta) version (200 pages and incomplete) of the German translation of Firebird 2.5 Language Reference is now available. With thanks to Martin Koeditz.

node-firebird 0.8.4 has been released with a Typescript definition file.

Firebird 4.0 Planning Board has been updated.

IBObjects 5.9.5 Build 2652 is available – This release provides support for the latest version of Delphi and C++ Builder (10.2 Tokyo Update 1) as well as some other significant improvements.

Firebird Perl extension DBD-Firebird V1.25 has been released.

SQL Multi Select 4 now supports Firebird.

Power meltdown 'fries' SourceForge....

Python Firebird driver FDB v1.8 is available for download.

OMEGA have a product called AMES, "an online browser-based system designed to assist the decision making process for aircraft maintenance" that uses Firebird.

Firebird high-level native client for Node.js/TypeScript has been updated to V0.0.1-alpha.4.

mojoPortal - Using Firebird Data Layer.

Jacques van Zuydam has created this branch on GitHub for Laravel 5.5 support.

Mark Rotteveel "I have created a small application to demonstrate how to use Firebird Embedded (version 3) together with Jaybird 3."

Database .NET V22.8 has been released.

Bipost (beta) a simple database synchronisation tool that can synchronise Microsoft SQL Server and Firebird (Windows) to any given Amazon Aurora MySQL database.

SouchProd.EntityFrameworkCore.Firebird - is an Entity Framework Core provider built on top of the Firebird ADO.NET Data Provider. It enables use the Entity Framework Core 2.0 ORM with Firebird.

ADO.NET provider 5.11.0.0 for Firebird is available with .NET Standard 2.0 support. Also in this release is support for passing a key over the wire for encrypted databases. More details can be found on the tracker.

ADO.NET provider 5.10.0.0 for Firebird is available. An overview of all the changes can be found on the tracker.

Firebird V4.0 Alpha 1 is available for download and testing.

Jaybird V3.0.2 has been released. Release notes.

firebird-2.5.7.27050.0-1.el6 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 6.

Smart streetlight bods Telensa nearly double full-year revenues on The Register.

Documentation crowdfunding - goal accomplished!

Firebird3.0 3.0.2.32703.ds4-9 package migrated to Debian testing.

Not Firebird but interesting... Practical Guide to SQL Transaction Isolation.

Report of the Brazilian 14th Firebird Developers Day.

Database .NET v22.5 has been released.

Jiri Cincura, "Getting closer to the “v1” with external procedures in Firebird in .NET" and "FbNetExternalEngine performance numbers."

How startup Kite tried to ruin two open source communities by Matt Asay on TechRepublic.

Firebird Tour 2017: Optimisation seminars, a series of seminars with Firebird developers, devoted to performance optimisation of Firebird databases. The speakers will be Vlad Khorsun and Dmitry Yemanov (Firebird Project), Dmitry Kuzmenko (IBSurgeon), Alexey Kovyazin (IBSurgeon) and Pavel Cisar (IBPhoenix). For more information.

Firebird 3.0.3 64bit lipo install for MacOSX is now available in beta.

Firebird 3.0.3 32bit install for MacOSX is now available in beta.

Simplifying GRANT USAGE in Firebird 3.0 by Paul Reeves.

A beta version of a 64bit Firebird 3.0.3 for MacOSX is now available as a download for those of you who might be interested in trying it.

FB Smtp UDF is available, a UDF library for directly sending SMTP messages via triggers and stored procedures.

The "Documentation Funding 2017" has eached more than $3,000 of the £5,000 goal. The Firebird project needs some more help to reach the target.

We have a beta version of an installable 64bit Firebird 3.0.3 for MacOSX. It runs by default as SuperServer currently (as it should) with no simple way to switch to Classic/SuperClassic (yet). If any one wants a copy to download, install and test - please send Paul Beach an email.

Database Workbench V5.3.2 has been released.

Firebird support for Decfloat is enabled in Firebird 4.0 (you can test it using the latest snapshots). Decfloat is a new SQL:2016 standard type introduced by IBM in DB2.

The status of the Firebird 3.0 source package in Debian’s testing distribution has changed. Previous version was 3.0.1.32609.ds4-14, Current version now is 3.0.2.32703.ds4-4.

IBObjects 5.9.3 Build 2631 is available. For more information please see the Release Notes.

Debian 9 Stretch is released with Firebird 3.0 in the repository.

Release of "LCPI ADO.NET data provider for OLE DB" V1.1 includes the new DDEX provider (V2) for Visual Studio 2017.

FB Stored Procedure Generator V2.3 is now available.

Database .NET V22.2 and dbMigration .NET V5.8 are available.

A Brief History of the UUID.

What's new in SQL 2016.

Jaybird 3.0.1 is available for download. For more details please see the Release Notes.

Firebird Lock UDF from Si Carter.

Free software is suffering because coders don’t know how to write documentation. You can contribute to Firebird's efforts here.

Database .NET V22 is available.

From Mark Rotteveel, "With the help of https://t.co/en62y5iEba and earlier work by @hajime_nakagami I think I managed to enable Firebird wire encryption in Jaybird".

Firebird Docker has been updated to 3.0.2 and 2.5.7 (Created by Jacob Alberty). This docker image is based on Debian Jessie.

ADO.NET provider for Firebird V5.9.1.0 is available for download. One small new feature has been added - support for [CREATE|ALTER|DROP] FUNCTION in FirebirdSql.Data.Isql for Firebird 3. Release Notes.

IBProvider V3.41 and other services are available.

FB Task Scheduler V1.4 has been released.

The Firebird 3.0.2 Package has been uploaded into Firebird 3.0 ppa for current Ubuntu releases.

Building and Running Firebird 3 On MacOS Sierra.

Jaybird V3.0.0 is available for download.

ADO.NET provider 5.9.0.0 for Firebird is available. Because there are quite a few changes in FbRemoteEvent Jiri wrote a separate article explaining all the changes. Also an overview of changes can be found in tracker.

Translate and publish the Firebird Developer Guide - crowdfunding campaign.

IBSurgeon FirstAID V5.0 is now available with support for Firebird 3.0, InterBase XE7, and databases that are 100Gb plus.

Nucleon Software announce the availability of Database Master 9 and BI Studio 9. More information.

If you are at the Railsconf 2017 you can contact Brent Rowland (the maintainer of the Firebird ActiveRecord driver).

Django-Firebird V1.8.2 has been released.

Firebird Stored Procedure Generator V2.2 is available.

Database Workbench V5.3 is available.

Database .NET 21.5 and dbMigration .NET 5.3 have been released.

IBProvider V3.40 is available.

Jaybird 2.2.13 is available for download. More information can be found in the release notes.

Django-Firebird V1.8.1 has been released. More information.

Firebird ADO.NET provider 5.8.1.0 is available for download. Overview of changes.

Node.js Firebird Drivers by Adriano dos Santos Fernandes.

Limits of the Event Parameter Buffer? By Paul Reeves.

Real-time Firebird – Monitor, V1.3.7.86 is available.

Android Firebird JDBC Driver (Jaybird) V2.2.12 has been updated for Android Studio.

Avalerion V3.0.2 (native replication for Firebird 3.x) is available for download.

Firebird V3.0.2 is available for download.

IBProvider V3.39 is available.

dbMigration .NET 5.0 is available.

Nucleon Software release Database Master 9 and BI Studio 9.

IBProvider V3.38 (Native OLE DB for InterBase and Firebird) has been released. More information.

FBCompare V1.5 has been released.

MWA Software’s Firebird Pascal Client API package (fbintf) V1.0.2 is now available for download.

Jaybird 3.0.0-beta-3 is available for download and testing. More in formation can be found in the full release notes.

ADO.NET provider 5.8.0.0 for Firebird is now available. For more information check the Release Notes.

Firebird Laravel 5.4 support.

NodeJS C++ client node-firebird-libfbclient V0.1.1 has been updated.

Timeouts for SQL statements and idle connections, now merged into master (Firebird 4.0). More documentation can be found on Statement Timeouts and Session Timeouts.

Firebird V2.5.7 is available for download.

Python Firebird driver FDB v1.7 is available for download.

IBProvider V3.37 is available for download. For more details.

Firebird Chocolatey packages are available. More information.

LibreOffice 5.3.0 is using Firebird 3.0, more details can be found here and here.

The Firebird Book Second Edition - Volume 4: Supplement for Firebird 3.0 by Helen Borrie.

NodeJS C++ client node-firebird-libfbclient V.0.1.0 has been released.

Installing Firebird 2.5.x on CentOS 7.

Database .NET 20.7 and dbMigration .NET 4.6 are now available.

Firebird Docker based on Debian Jessie updated to 3.0.1 and 2.5.6 (created by Jacob Alberty).

Tamas Bunth - LibreOffice contributor interview.

IBReplicator V5.0.3 has been released. More information in the Release Notes.

NodeJS C++ client node-firebird-libfbclient V.0.0.15 has been updated with fixes for Firebird event handling.

IBReplicator V5.0.2 has been released. For more information please see the Release Notes.

Vlad Horsun - (CORE-5441) Cache physical numbers of often used data pages to reduce number of fetches of pointer pages.

Dorin Marcoci has added Firebird native type mapping for integers (smallint, integer, bigint) in PDO, PHP.

Firebird Maestro 17.1 has been released. More details.

FBCompare V1.4 is available.

Performance enhancement for Read Only transactions.

Add support for Windows 8/2012 fast/low-latency "TCP Loopback Fast Path" functionality. From Vlad, "Patch is committed into B3_0_Release branch. Please, test it."

IBPhoenix would like to wish all Firebird developers and users a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

IBProvider V3.35 is available.

Jaybird 2.2.12 has been released. More details can be found in the release notes.

Jaybird 3.0.0-beta-2 is available for testing. We would really appreciate if you could start testing your applications with this version and provide feedback on stability and behaviour, but also on the release notes. Feedback can be sent to the Firebird-java mailinglist or on the issue tracker

Jaybird 3.0 is a big change from Jaybird 2.2 and earlier. We have rewritten the entire low-level implementation to be able to support protocol improvements in newer Firebird versions, we have made changes with a stricter interpretation of the JDBC requirements, and we have removed some parts that were either obsolete or not functioning correctly.

We recommend that you do not consider Jaybird 3.0 a drop-in replacement for Jaybird 2.2, and study the release notes carefully.

Writing stored procedures using C# and Firebird (Japanese).

A beginners guide to "How to work with Firebird and PHP" by Denis Simonov (Russian).

Firebird 2.5.6 Final for supported Ubuntu releases has been uploaded into Firebird 2.5 ppa. Latest stable release Firebird 2.5 for supported Ubuntu releases:16.04 (Xenial), 14.04 (Trusty), 12.04 (Precise). Firebird 2.5.6 is already included in Yakkety Yak (Ubuntu 16.10).

ADO.NET provider 5.7.0.0 for Firebird is available. Overview of the changes can be found in the tracker.

Firebird 3.0.1 has been uploaded to Firebird 3.0 Ubuntu ppa. There are packages for Ubuntu 16.10 and Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial).

Firebird - Monitor for Firebird - Server 2.5 / 3.0 V1.3.6.82 is now available.

Database .NET 20.2 and dbMigration .NET 4.3 have been released.

MWA Software announce the pre-release of IBX2 for Lazarus.

Firebird 3 SQL Standard Conformance - note that the information is not a full statement of conformance, but just information for those interested in the subject.

Firebird Advent Calendar 2016 – from the Japanese Firebird Community.

Firebird Web Admin V3.4.0 has been released.

New Flamerobin snapshot 0.9.3.c75f861 for Windows is available (x86). It needs the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 (x86). See Git log for code changes.

Yii2-Firebird V0.9.1 has been released.

Most popular relational databases – 2016 edition.

From Mark Rotteveel: "Jaybird 3.0.0-beta-1 has been published for testing. We would really appreciate if you could start testing your applications with this version and provide feedback on stability and behavior, but also on the release notes.

Feedback can be sent to the Firebird-java mailinglist or on the issue tracker.

Jaybird 3.0 is a big change from Jaybird 2.2 and earlier. We have rewritten the entire low-level implementation to be able to support protocol improvements in newer Firebird versions, we have made changes with a stricter interpretation of the JDBC requirements, and we have removed some parts that were either obsolete or not functioning correctly.

We recommend that you do not consider Jaybird 3.0 a drop-in replacement for Jaybird 2.2, and study the release notes carefully.

Release files: Sourceforge or also Github

Jaybird 3.0 Beta 1 is available from Maven central: see instructions in the release notes.

Node.js Firebird API on Adriano's blog.

Yii2-Firebird V0.9.0 has been released.

IBReplicator V5.0.1 is available for download. For more details please see the release notes.

Firebird 3.+ for Android ARM, is done (see CORE-5332, CORE-3885) Thanks to Marius Popa.

Firebird - Monitor (2.5/3.0) V1.3.5.79 is available.

Optimising Queries and Transactions by Jason Wharton (Prague 2016). Lastest IB Objects evaluation version for download (90MB)

A new version 5.6.0.0 of ADO.NET provider for Firebird is ready for download. More details from Jiri Cincura.

Native OLE DB Provider for Firebird V3.x.

How to Size a Firebird Database by IBPhoenix.

Database .NET 19.8 and dbMigration .NET 4.0 have been released.

The Firebird 2.5 package has been replaced by Firebird 3.0 in Debian Unstable. An explanation from Damyan Ivanov.

Firebird Conference (Prague 2016), "Firebird Today - Goals and Perspectives" and "Firebird and Disk IO" by Dimitry Yemanov.

Firebird 3.0.1 package is now available in Debian testing.

Should You Fight the Freeloaders? On Sourceforge.

Firebird C++ NodeJS module node-firebird-libfbclient updated with Node 4.x/6.x support.

Most of the papers from the Firebird Conference 2016 (Prague) are now available.

SQL Security clause part of SQL Standard (2003, 2011) Feature has been implemented in Firebird master.

Firebird Perl extension DBD-Firebird V1.24 has been released.

Poor man’s full-text search using PSQL only on Firebird by Jiri Cincura.

Firebird Monitor for Firebird 2.5/3.0 V1.3.4.73 is available.

Firebird driver with Laravel 5.3 support.

ADO.NET provider for Firebird is available for download. One new notable feature - the driver now includes compression support for Firebird 3. To use compression add Compression=True to your connection string. By default it’s turned off.

Today is the last chance to register for the Firebird Conference. There is still a chance to come to the conference and communicate with the Firebird developers and leading Firebird experts.

But is it safe? Uncork a bottle of vintage open-source FUD - FOSS's hidden marathon to big-ticket respectability by Michael Cote on The Register.

Firebird 3.0.1 is available for download. This release offers many bug fixes and also adds a few improvements. Please see the release notes for more details.

Brexit at the next junction: Verity's guide to key post-vote skills, by Verity Stob on The Register.

Better connection profile for Firebird in Database .NET 19.5 and dbMigration .NET 3.7.

SQL Maestro Group announces the release of Firebird PHP Generator V16.9.

Adriano dos Santos Fernandes:

"I created a branch for the C++11 usage proposal. The branch is not for active development, it’s just so others can play, test and discuss.

The features are described here

I didn’t found explicit mentioning support of the function features per compiler, but seems very basic feature for lambdas so I put it there.

I tested clang++ 3.8.0, g++ 5.4.0 and MSVC 14".

Firebird Conference 2016 - Papers

Featured speaker: Jason Wharton, IBObjects

Firebird ADO.NET provider 5.1.1.0 is available for download. More details can be found in the Release Notes.

Firebird Conference 2016 - Conference Schedule

Database .NET 19.4 and dbMigration .NET 3.6 have been released.

Database Workbench 5.2 is available.

Firebird Conference 2016 - Papers.

sessions from Alex Peshkoff, Firebird Core developer on how to integrate Firebird into the corporate security infrastructure, how to make data in a Firebird databases more secure,

Database Challenges and Innovations, interview with Jim Starkey on ODBMS Industry Watch.

Firebird Conference 2016 - Papers.

The talks announced below will be devoted to the most popular questions regarding Firebird performance.

Dmitry Yemanov, lead Firebird developer

A new version of the ADO.NET provider (5.1.0.0) for Firebird is ready for download. Changes or improvements include support for new fields in MON$ATTACHMENTS and support for “-skip_data” in backup/restore. And finally some nice simple performance tweaks around Charset class. An overview of changes can be found in the tracker.

Firebird Conference 2016 - Papers.

Two talks from Jiri Cincura, developer of Firebird .NET driver.

Firebird Conference 2016 - Papers.

Philippe Makowski, the maintainer of Linux packages for Firebird and the vice-president of Firebird Foundation, will present 2 topics at the Firebird Conference 2016:

MariaDB open-source credentials take a hit on ITWire.

Mark Rotteveel just published Jaybird 3.0.0-alpha-1 for testing. He would appreciate if you could start testing your applications with this version and provide feedback on stability and behaviour, but also on the release notes.

Jaybird 3.0 is a big change from Jaybird 2.2 and earlier. We have rewritten the entire low-level implementation to be able to support protocol improvements in newer Firebird versions, we have made changes with a stricter interpretation of the JDBC requirements, and we have removed some parts that were either obsolete or not functioning correctly.

We recommend that you do not consider Jaybird 3.0 a drop-in replacement for Jaybird 2.2, and study the release notes carefully. The release files are on github.

Jaybird 3.0 Alpha 1 is available from Maven central

Groupid: org.firebirdsql.jdbc, Artifactid: jaybird-jdkXX (where XX is 17 or 18). Version: 3.0.0-alpha-1

For example:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.firebirdsql.jdbc</groupId>
  <artifactId>jaybird-jdk18</artifactId>
  <version>3.0.0-alpha-1</version>
</dependency>

If your application is deployed to a Java EE application server, you will need to exclude the javax.resource:connector-api dependency, and add it as a provided dependency:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.firebirdsql.jdbc</groupId>
  <artifactId>jaybird-jdk18</artifactId>
  <version>3.0.0-alpha-1</version>
  <exclusions>
      <exclusion>
          <groupId>javax.resource</groupId>
          <artifactId>connector-api</artifactId>
      </exclusion>
  </exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>javax.resource</groupId>
  <artifactId>connector-api</artifactId>
  <version>1.5</version>
  <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

If you want to use Type 2 support (native, local or embedded), you need to explicitly include JNA 4.2.2 as a dependency:

<dependency>
  <groupId>net.java.dev.jna</groupId>
  <artifactId>jna</artifactId>
  <version>4.2.2</version>
</dependency>

Firebird Conference 2016 - Papers.

We are beginning to publish the talks that will be presented at the Firebird Conference 2016. Book your place there now!

IBProvider V3.31 has been released.

IBPhoenix have a Pre-ODS 12 provider for Firebird 3.0 that will allow Firebird 3.0 to access Firebird 2.x (ODS 11) databases. Please contact us if you are interested in learning more about it.

Jaybird 2.2.11 is available.

On Fireird Support, Martin Schriber "I am the author of the very sophisticated and very unknown cross platform development environment MSEide+MSEgui for Free Pascal which has excellent Firebird support".

Database .NET v19 and dbMigration .NET 3.5 are available.

Yii2-firebird 0.8.2 has been released.

The Firebird Project's Firebird Relational Database on Linux Journal.

Mark Rotteveel has just published a new snapshot of Jaybird 3. We are nearing completion of Jaybird 3, and he expects to release a first alpha version this weekend.

You can get the current snapshot from the Sonatype OSS snapshot repository (https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/)

Groupid: org.firebirdsql.jdbc, Artifactid: jaybird-jdkXX (where XX is 17 or 18). Version: 3.0.0-SNAPSHOT

For example

<dependency>
   <groupId>org.firebirdsql.jdbc</groupId>
   <artifactId>jaybird-jdk18</artifactId>
   <version>3.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>

You need to add the Sonatype OSS snapshot repository to your maven repository config or pom.

Alternatively, you can download it from SourceForge.

See also documentation and release notes.

How to backup and restore a database via gzip and zcat using stdout and stdin:

gbak -b test.db stdout | gzip > test.gbak.gz
zcat test.gbak.gz | gbak -rep stdin test.db

The two commands above backup and gzip a database, whilst the second replaces a database with a gzipped copy.

IBPhoenix would like to announce the availability of Avalerion, a high performance native replication solution for Firebird 3.0

13th Firebird Developers Day report.

External procedures in Firebird in .NET done(-ish) on Jiri Cincura's blog.

IBReplicator V5.0 is available for download. More information can be found in the Release Notes.

Django-firebird with support for Django 1.8.x has been released.

We now have a new Mac Pro for the MacOSX builds, courtesy of Pierre Arnaud, of Cresus, Switzerland.

Database .NET 18.8 has been released.

Firebird 2.5.6 is available.

Jiri Cincura and Firebird Stored procedures in .NET.

Firebird 4.0 - Planning Board

Mark Rotteveel announces "I have just published a new snapshot version of Jaybird 3.0 for testing. Release notes Feedback and comments are welcome. Post bug reports on the tracker. You can get the snapshot through maven/gradle/etc if you have the Sonatype OSS snapshot repository configured. Alternatively you can download it from Sourceforge.

Firebird 3.0 has been uploaded to Firebird 3.0 Ubuntu ppa. (Packages for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty) and Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial).

GeoIP Update is available for Firebird. More information.

UIB for Firebird 3.0 is officially available.

An updated version of Real-time Firebird Monitor is available.

Firebird/Java External Engine Plugin-1.0.0-alpha-1.

Adriano dos Santos Fernandes "I'm pleased to release the first test version of FB/Java, compatible with Firebird 3.0.0.

https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/fbjava/releases

FB/Java is an External Engine plugin for Firebird that makes Firebird capable of running functions, procedures and triggers in Java.

It complements Jaybird making it interface with the Firebird engine and handles the infrastructure necessary to support user routines.

It also has a client utility with functions to install and uninstall the plugin in a database that users may use to deploy and undeploy Java classes and resources stored in JAR files to a database.

Bugs should be filed in the github project.

This test version uses a modified snapshot of Jaybird 3.0.

dbExpress Driver for Firebird V52 is available.

Call For Papers, Firebird Conference 2016.

Aage Frank Johansen, 1945-2016, R.I.P.

Si Carter has released Firebird Stored Procedure Generator V2.1 , this version introduces a new option to build a class library, complete business object layer and data access layer for accessing all generated stored procedures in C# (other languages are planned for future versions).

Database .NET 18.5 and dbMigration .NET 3.1 for Firebird V3.0 are available.

The ADO.NET provider 5.0.5.0 for Firebird is available for download. For more information please see the Release Notes.

New Firebird monitoring tool.. trial vesion available.

The Firebird Conference will take place on the 7th and 8th of October 2016, Prague, Czech Republic. More details.

Firebird ADO.NET provider 5.0.0.0 has been released. This release contains two new major features, both focused on Firebird 3. The BOOLEAN datatype is now supported (except Entity Framework mapping, currently). and SRP authentication. An overview of the changes can be found on the Tracker.

IBReplicator V4.2.6 has been released. For more details please see the Release Notes.

Writing External Functions - A General Guide (.pdf) (570k) by Claudio Valderrama C. (IBPhoenix).

Firebird Database Backup V1.3 is now available.

Upscene Productions announce the availability of FB TraceManager V3.6.0.

Firebird 3.0 Final package has been uploaded to the Debian Linux Experimental repository.

Yii2-Firebird driver version V0.7.1 has been released.

Firebird Database Version 3.0 Released on iProgrammer.

dbMigration .NET v3 has been released.

The Oslo bike sharing system uses Firebird.

Firebird V3.0 is now available for download. Please read the Press Release.

Firebird Ruby gem fb 0.7.5 has been released.

Firebird V3.0 will be available shortly, the source code has been tagged in the repository and builds are being prepared.

IBProvider V3.29 is available.

CakePHP 3 Driver for Firebird.

Django-Firebird 1.7.x has been released.

Mark Rotteveel published a new Jaybird 3.0.0-SNAPSHOT. Download available on maven (on the Sonatype snapshots repository) or SourceForge. Updated Release Notes are also available. Feedback on the stability, performance and undocumented changes in behaviour would be appreciated.

Yii2-Firebird driver V0.7 has been released.

Database .NET 18.1 has been released.

Firebird and Laravel 5.2.

Python Firebird driver FDB v1.6 is available for download.

Django-Firebird development roadmap.

Updated versions of IBProvider are available - IBProvider V3.27.2- V3.28.2.

SQL Maestro announce the availability of Firebird PHP Generator 16.3.

Database Workbench V5.1.12 has been released.

GSOC 2016 - LibreOffice - Finish Firebird driver integration.

The Firebird project repository has been migrated to GitHub. Please wait a few days for things to settle down, we need to update some infrastructure issues. The SVN repository is still accessible, but new contributions are expected to be provided as pull requests at GitHub.

When creating a GitHub account, we suggest you add your SourceForge's email (username@users.sourceforge.net) as a secondary one to associate your past contributions with your account.

Firebird 4.0 Roadmap and Checklist.

Jaybird 2.2.10 has been released and is available for download.

An updated version of the Firebird ODBC driver is available (2.0.4) for download. Change log on Sourceforge.

DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and El Capitan on Paul Beach's Blog.

Adriano, on building Firebird 3.0 RC2 with GCC 6.0. "First, I have just committed a change for GPRE to generate code compatible with C++-14. I now build in C++-14 mode with these options:

-fno-sized-deallocation: because C++-14 pass the size to the delete operator. Instead of using this option, it would be better to check __cpluplus >= 201402L and do the appropriate change in the sources.

-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks: becase the ->as ->is methods that we call in null pointers. There may be other similar things.

Tech Firms Grapple With How to Make Open Source Pay on the Wall Street Journal.

Firebird 3.0 Release Candidate 2 is available for download and testing. The first versions of RC2 packages for Centos7 and RHEL7 are also available.

ActiveRecord Firebird Adapter V1.0.3 has been released.

Python Firebird driver FDB v1.5.1 is available for download.

Firebird/Java Engine Plug-in development on Github.

dbMigration .NET V2.5 has been released.

SQL Maestro announce the availability of Firebird Database Converter.

The Money In Open-Source Software on Tech Crunch.

The current status and future prospects of Firebird 2.5 - Actively being maintained. We had two point releases in 2015 and expect two point releases in 2016, with V2.5.6 currently scheduled for March/April. The Firebird release schedule defines a five years long release cycle, and we never deprecate releases younger than two versions back. So V2.5 will be maintained until V4 is out (2017-2018).

Database .NET 17.5 has been released.

Firebird Language Reference 2.5 (English) Beta 1 (pdf) and (html). The review of the translated text has got this far, thanks to the efforts of Paul Vinkenoog and Mark Rotteveel. Unfortunately, we didn't get any more Englsh speakers to help with the review, so there is still a way to go. (Helen Borrie).

The Haversine formula in Firebird SQL => Calculate distance between two WGS84 Points on the Synaptica Blog.

IBProvider V3.27.1.19598 is available.

ADO.NET provider V4.10.0.0 for Firebird is available. An overview of the changes made can be found on the tracker.

How to migrate users from Firebird 2.x to Firebird 3.

Python Firebird driver FDB v1.5 has been released. This is an important release that introduces support for Firebird 3.0.

FirebirdWebAdmin V3.3.0 has been released.

Expect Firebird V3.0 RC2 later this month...

Hajime Nakagami has started work on a pure Erlang Firebird client library...

Mark Rotteveel has released a new Jaybird 3.0.0-SNAPSHOT that is available on Maven (via) the Sonatype OSS snapshot repository and also Sourceforge. He would really appreciate it if people would start testing Jaybird 3 with their applications and report problems or incompatibilities. More information is in the Release Notes.

Happy New Year to all Firebird users everywhere.

ADO.NET provider 4.9.0.0 for Firebird is available for download. For additional information read Jiri's blog.

IBProvider 3.27 is available.

Firebird PHP Generator V15.12 has been released.

Jason Wharton on IB Objects V6 and beyond.

Upscene releases Database Workbench V5.1.10

IBPhoenix publish Reading a Lock Print by Ann Harrison.

Updatable Firebird Views by IBPhoenix.

Pyfirebirdsql V0.9.12 has been released.

The definitive guide to Understanding Firebird Transactions by IBPhoenix.

Understanding the Firebird Optimizer and it's Plans by IBPhoenix.

New features of IBProvider (3.27) for Firebird.

How to publish data from the Firebird RDBMS to PDF, using the xtopdf toolkit and the fbd Python driver for Firebird

IBPhoenix have a 64bit Transaction Id build of Firebird 2.5. Contact us if you are interested.

Meiji Kimura's Firebird Advent Calendar for 2015 (Japanese).

Firebird 3.0 Windows Installer Survey (.pdf).

Database on a RAM-disk, shadows and NBackup by Pavel Cisar.

dbExpress Driver for Firebird V51 is available.

FirebirdWebAdmin V3.2 has been released.

Philippe Makowski: Firebird V2.5.5 packages for RHEL/Centos 6 and 7 are ready in their respective EPEL testing repositories. Packages are also available in Fedora 22 and Mageia 6.

Chau Chee-Yang's dbExpress Driver for Firebird V50 is available for download.

Firebird V2.5.5 has been released and is available to download.

Firebird Maestro V15.11 has been released.

Sphinx patch for Firebird has been updated to V2.2.x

IBObjects V5.7.7 [Build 2340] has been released.

Python Firebird driver fdb (1.4.11) has been released.

Devart rlease their updated Firebird (proprietary) ODBC driver (V1.2)

Firebird 2.5 Language Reference - The Firebird Docs team is calling for people who are fluent in both English and Firebird's SQL to assist with reviewing the English text of the Firebird 2.5 Language Reference manual. Of 10 chapters and 8 Appendices, 4.5 chapters are still untouched by reviewers. It would be good to have the reviewing done to coordinate with the forthcoming 2.5.5 release but correctness takes priority. Still to do are: half of the DDL chapter, DML, PSQL, Functions and Variables, Transactions. If you feel able to help with the review, please subscribe to the [firebird-docs] list and make yourself and your preferred topics known.

Survey about Firebird 3 Installer - The Firebird Project needs your opinions regarding the Windows installer of the forthcoming Firebird 3.0 final release. Please provide your opinions via this survey. Note that your answers will help to define and implement future enhancements. The Survey will be available until 20th Nov 2015.

Firebird 3.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available for download and testing.

FirebirdWebAdmin V3.0.1 has been released.

Database .NET 16.9 has been released.

Work for django-firebird continues with support for Django 1.7.x.

Database Workbench 5.1.8 has been released.

Firebird 3.0 RC1 has been tagged, Windows and Linux builds are on their way.

Jaybird V2.2.9 has been released.

Upscene Productions announces the availability of FB TraceManager V3.5.4.

Dimitry Yemanov has committed CORE-4965, Extend the transaction ID space beyond 2^32 transactions into Firebird 3.0 RC1 (whoop! whoop!). More details. This feature was sponsored by RamSoft Inc.

New builds of Firebird V2.5.4 for MacOS that have a completely re-written installer to comply with El Capitan are available.

Best embedded RDBMS databases for .NET developers on JaxEnter mentions Firebird.

Upscene releases Database Workbench 5.1.6

Real life* stress testing a complex server application (or why we really need FireBird 3.0) on Sleek Productions website.

Altova updates their developer tools for XML, SQL, and UML to include support for Firebird.

Node Firebird driver node-firebird 0.7.0 has been released.

How to install/upgrade Firebird manually on El Capitan on Paul Beach's blog.

dbMigration .NET V1.6 has been released.

ADO.NET provider 4.8.1.0 for Firebird is available for download. Overview of changes can be found in the tracker.

Firebird Perl extension DBD-Firebird V1.21 is available.

Firebird connector for Yii2 Framework V0.6 has been released.

Devart announce the availability of IBDAC V5.6 and dbExpress V4.7.

IBX for Lazarus release V1.3.1 is available for download.

Firebird ADO.NET provider V4.8.0.0 for Firebird is available for download. An overview of the changes can be found in bug tracker. Please pay extra attention to DNET-625 and DNET-626 as these might affect your code in an unexpected way.

IBReplcator V4.2.5 has been released and is available for download.

Initial Firebird support for the Redmine project.

Firebird 3.0 Network Protocol Benchmark.

Support for wire encryption (protocol 13) has now been merged into Jaybird using using java builtin RC4 and stream io framework.

FDB Python driver for Firebird V1.4.10 is available for download.

Firebird Stored Procedure Generator V2.0 is available.

Evaluation of Database Management Systems, A Bachelor's Thesis in Computer Engineering by Xing Liang and Yongyu Lu, School of Information Science, Computer and Electrical Engineering, Halmstad University, June 2010 (pdf).

Firebird SRP authentication has been merged into Jaybird.

Full CI is now enabled for Firebird DotNet Provider using AppVeyor (Jiri Cincura's blog).

dbMigration .NET a universal database migration tool.

How does a relational database work by Christophe on Coding Geek.

Firebird V3.0 Beta 2 has been uploaded into Debian experimental.

Rails Active Record Firebird adapter V1.0.2 has been released.

node-firebird V0.6.7 has been released, with improved Pool Management.

12th Firebird Developers Day - Report.

SQL Relay V0.62 is available.

Now, pyfirebirdsql V0.9.11 is available.

pyfirebirdsql driver V0.9.9 has been released.

jMonitorFirebird developed in Java and NetBeans IDE.

Firebird 3.0. Partially support protocol 13 (Legacy_Auth and no WireCrypt) in Jaybird.

How to configure Firebird Classic to work with systemd by Pavel Cisar.

Functions with PSQL in Firebird 3 by Helen Borrie.

gbak -st(atistics)

Jaybird 2.2.9-SNAPSHOT, a pre-release version for testing purposes, contains an experimental new feature: use isc_tpb_autocommit in auto commit mode (JDBC-399).

ADO .NET provider 4.7.0 for Firebird is ready and available for download.

Firebird connector for the Yii2 framework V0.4.0 has been released.

Mark Rotteveel has implemented Firebird autocommit (isc_tpb_autocommit) in the Jaybird jdbc driver.

Database .NET V16.1 has been released.

Upscene releases Database Workbench V5.1.2.

An extension that adds Firebird database support for the Yii Framework V2.0 (PHP).

pyfirebirdsql V0.9.8 has been released with a few updates and fixes.

Firebird 3.0 Beta 2 is available for download and testing.

Updated article Yosemite, SuperServer, and StartupItems on Paul Beach's blog.

Firebird V3.0 Beta 2 has been tagged, builds are on their way.

A new open source web-based Firebird Admin Tool based on Python and fdb - firewad

Contributed R&D from Elekt Labs - Improved Firebird engine RLE for record compression

FDB Python driver for Firebird V1.4.9 is available for download.

Version 4.6.4 of the ADO.NET provider for Firebird is available for download. More details in the Release Notes on the tracker.

V4.6.3 of the ADO.NET provider for Firebird is available for download. Work has been done on FbBatchExecution class to handle even more commands. Overview of changes can be found on the tracker.

Upscene releases Database Workbench V5.1.0

FDB Python driver for Firebird V1.4.8 is available for download.

Firebird Illuminate package for Laravel 5.

node-firebird V0.6.6 has been released.

node-firebird V0.6.5 has been released.

Oracle's rising open source problem by Matt Asay on TechRepublic.

A minor update to django-firebird (V1.6.3).

Firebird github master branch is now on Travis CI.

Firebird V3 Beta 2 is coming. For more details read the Changelog, and Fixed Issues.

FDB Python driver for Firebird v1.4.7 is available for download.

The Chequered Career of nBackup by Helen Borrie.

Jaybird V2.2.8 has been released. More details in the release notes.

FDB Python driver for Firebird v1.4.6 is available for download.

SQL Relay V0.59 has been released.

Wireshark updated with an improved Firebird wire protocol dissector.

Database .NET V15.5 has been released.

Lazarus Tutorial : Creating, editing, and searching a Firebird database, printing a report, stored procedures and ClientDataSets.

Perl extension DBD::Firebird V1.20 has been released.

A Firebird database package for the Laravel Framework.

Jaybird has now migrated to github.

ADO.NET provider V4.6.2 for Firebird is available for download. An overview of changes can be found in the tracker.

Firebird 2015 Tour in Seligenstadt (Germany): Only 11 days left for the first seminar that will take place on April 24th 2015. More details and registration.

Article about Firebird 3 New Pseudocolumn RDB$RECORD_VERSION

ActiveRecord Firebird Adapter V1.0.1 has been released.

IBProvider announce the release of of ADO.NET provider for OLE DB.`

Using the "LCPI ADO.NET Data Provider for OLE DB" with Firebird.

FDB Python driver for Firebird v1.4.5 is available for download.

Firebird V2.5.4 has been released and is available for download.

Database .NET 14.9 has been released.

Aggregate linear regression functions added to Firebird 3.0, contributed by Hajime Nakagami.

IBPReplicator V4.2.4 has been released and is available for download. More information is in the release notes.

Firebird V2.5.4 - Whats New.

Roadmap for a distributed Firebird? By Jim Starkey.

Firebird Perl extension DBD-Firebird V1.19 has been released.

Dmitry Yemanov has added documentation for a new feature : Scrollable cursors in PSQL, DSQL with additional API support.

PyFirebirdsql Version V0.9.7 has been released with support for Firebird 3.0 Wire Protocol.

Hajime Nakagami has contributed a number of new statistical functions : covar_samp(), covar_pop(), corr() to Firebird.

The Meteor Pi citizen science project is developing a network that will track and record meteorites and other astral objects using Raspberry Pi and Firebird.

Interesting article: NoSQL market frames larger debate: Can open source be profitable? by Mike Wheatley on Silicon Angle.

Egor Pugin: With CMake V3.2.1 it is now possible to successfully build Firebird for iOS. The updated instructions for builinf on iOS are now available. available.

Firebird 2015 Tour: SQL performance optimisation: SQL plans, queries and database statistics, query tuning techniques and understanding how Firebird works within this context. Locations and dates: April 24th 2015 Seligenstadt, Germany, May 19th 2015 Prague, Czech Republic, June 5th 2015, Moscow, Russia. For more information.

Firebird for Android: Alex Peshkov has produced a test version of Firebird 3 for Android. Archives with tools for accessing databases in embedded mode are now available to download and test. Note that embedded Firebird can be used also as a client to access remote Firebird servers. Please help with the testing and giving us feedback.

Nodejs Firebird driver version V0.6.0 is released with a critical problem with Transactions now fixed.

Add add stddev_pop(), stddev_samp(), var_pop(), var_samp() functions to Firebird by Hajime Nakagami.

New hosting option: Firebird on Hoo.st.

Roman Simakov: "I have ported BenchmarkSQL for Firebird. It's a TPC-C test that works via JDBC and supports PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2 and now Firebird. It would be useful to know where we are compared to other RDBMSs. Please share you investigations.

Nodejs Firebird V0.5.1 is released with support for the Firebird Service Manager functions.

Adriano dos Santos Fernandes (on the Firebird Development list): "I just built an example of Firebird 3 API usage with FreePascal. As said earlier, working with input/output buffers directly in non-C/C++ is difficult. This requires auxiliary classes. The others things seem ok and easy to use. We need some new functions in the new API, for example, to convert." status vectors to strings, but this is not specific to Pascal.

Nodejs Firebird driver V0.4.0 is released with initial support for the Services Manager

FDB Python driver for Firebird v1.4.4 is available for download.

NodeJS C++ client node-firebird-libfbclient V0.0.13 updated with 64 bit fixes.

Adminer (database management in a single PHP file) now with alpha support for Firebird.

node-firebird-libfbclient V0.0.12 has been released with NodeJS V0.12 fixes.

Database Workbench 5.0.10 has been released.

Jim Starkey's NoSQL low-down - Why it won't solve Big Data. Master of unstructured data on data sets and the umbrella term NoSQL on cio.co.uk.

Yosemite, SuperServer, and StartupItems on Paul Beach's blog.

Firebird Lua+ffi binding – A complete ffi binding of the Firebird client library.

Updated Firebird Team Members page.

Contributed research - False index corruption (CORE-3916) by Pavel Cisar.

Official Firebird umbrella is now on github.

Brent Rowland announces: Fbx – general purpose extensions to golang’s database/sql for Firebird.

The virtual session that Dmitry Yemanov gave last year for the 11th Firebird Developers Day in Brazil (August 2014) is now available on YouTube.

IBPhoenix announce the availability of FBMon (a command-line tool written in Python that allows you to work with Firebird Monitoring Tables) on its next Developer DVD due out in February.

Jaybird 2.2.7 has been released and is available for download.

Egor Pugin: You can try crosscompiling for android using CMake. Instructions can be found here.

Firebird ADO.NET provider V4.6.1.0 is available and ready for download.

Egor Pugin announces that it is now possible to build Firebird with CMake. The CMake build system has been commited to the Firebird trunk. CMake Quick Start guide.

Upscene anounces the release of Database Workbench V5.0.8.

According to its lifetime release policy, the Firebird Project gives notice that the Firebird V2.1 series has reached its end-of-life and will not be maintained anymore. The last official release in this series, is Firebird 2.1.7, which was announced in December 2014, it will continue to be available for download, but will no longer be supported by the Firebird Project. Support if required is available from IBPhoenix.

SQL-MVC - The author has created a new concept in web application frameworks, using Firebird and node.js, and would appreciate any comments, especially on the concepts behind it. The compiler takes your application code, SQL statements, directives and properties and produces all the database code as a single stored procedure, to be run to produce JSON output. A Mustache Template (Hogan) containing all the client side code to be filled with the JSON. When the two are combined in the browser everything happens. The server node.js does very little other than pass JSON between the server and client. All the business logic remains in the database server. You have full control of the client side look, feel and behaviour, the default framework and theme is just to give you a quick start. Comments.

Database .NET 14.2 has been released.

Rails activerecord-fb-adapter V0.9.1 has been released.

Jaybird 2.2.6 has been released and is available for download. More information on this release can be found in the release notes.

Firebird Language Reference translation - The $7,000 target has been achieved. Many thanks to all those who contributed.

ADO.NET provider 4.6.0.0 for Firebird is available for download. Overview of changes from the Tracker.

IBPhoenix would like to wish all Firebird users and developers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

National Vulnerability Database - CVE-2014-9323.

22. 18. 18. Stob's magnificent saga A Game Of Dog-and-Bones GUARANTEED no elves and hardly any violence. Or incest. On The Register.

Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2014 at LinuxQuestions (note you must be registered as a user with at least one Linux related post).

Upscene announce the availability of Advanced Data Generator V3.3.0

Database Workbench V5.0.6 has been released .

Incompetent FireBird Developer Woes on Josh Hartmann's blog. - Perhaps the software developer should have invested in some professional support?

Firebird V2.5.3 Security Update 1 and Firebird V2.1.7 are available for download. These builds address a known DoS security issue. We advise Firebird users to upgrade as soon as is practical.

Firebird V3.0 Beta 1 is available for download and testing.

V.2.0.3 of the ODBC driver for Firebird is available to download.

The report from Firebird Conference 2014 (presentations and several photos) is now available.

Papers Presented at the Firebird Conference 2014 - IBObjects by Jason Wharton.

Papers Presented at the Firebird Conference 2014 - How Firebird Transactions work by Dimitry Kuzmenko.

Papers Presented at the Firebird Conference 2014 - Using Azure cloud and Firebird to develop applications easily by Jiri Cincura.

Papers Presented at the Firebird Conference 2014 - Tips for using System Tables by Ivan Prenosil.

Datamation: 100 Open Source Replacements for Expensive Applications mentions Firebird.

Papers Presented at the Firebird Conference 2014 - Super Server in Firebird 3 by Vlad Horsun.

FDB Python driver for Firebird v1.4.3 is available for download.

FDB Python driver for Firebird v1.4.2 is available for download. This mostly bugfix version introduces a backward incompatible change to events API, so read the Release Notes before deployment.

IPv6 support in Firebird 3.0.

ADO.NET provider V4.5.2.0 for Firebird is available. This is a small release with the "no garbage collect" option for the connection string (contributed) and improvements in NuGet packages by helping you to add DbProviderFactories item.

Papers Presented at the Firebird Conference 2014 - Using TPCC to study Firebird performance by Paul Reeves.

Papers Presented at the Firebird Conference 2014 - Creating Logs for Data Auditing by Carlos Cantu.

PyFirebirdsql V0.9.5 is available.

IBObjects V5.5.5 Build 2152 has been released.

Papers Presented at the Firebird Conference 2014 - Firebird Performance Counters in Detail by Dimitry Yemanov.

Papers Presented at the Firebird Conference 2014 - Understanding Numbers in Firebird by Carlos Cantu.

Firebird PHP Generator V14.10 has been released.

Database .NET V13.5 has been released.

Papers Presented at the Firebird Conference 2014 - Threading in Firebird and the Future by Ann Harrison and Jim Starkey.

Papers Presented at the Firebird Conference 2014 - New SQL Features in Firebird 3.0 by Vlad Horsun.

IBReplicator V4.2.3 has been released and is available for download.

Papers Presented at the Firebird Conference 2014 - Orphans, Corruption, Careful Write and Logging by Ann Harrison and Jim Starkey.

Papers Presented at the Firebird Conference 2014 - "Querying Firebird with JPA and jOOQ" by Mark Rotteveel (on Prezi).

Papers Presented at the Firebird Conference 2014 - "Jaybird: Status Update" by Mark Rotteveel (on Prezi).

Node C++ driver node-firebird-libfbclient has been updated to V0.0.11

Papers Presented at the Firebird Conference 2014 - "Firebird Release Strategy in 2015-2016", by Dmitry Yemanov, core Firebird Architect.

Join the Firebird V3.0 launch campaign.

The Firebird Conference 2014 schedule is now available.

Thomas Steinmaurer (video) discusses different aspects on how to use the Firebird Trace API and FB TraceManager in high load (production) scenarios.

More mini-interviews with speakers at Firebird Conference 2014

Jiri Cincura, developer of Firebird.NET

— Jiri, why do you think people will be interested most of all in your presentation?

If you're an .NET developer working with Firebird you need to catch up with all the changes that happened during a year. There's a lot of improvements and you might actually benefit from some of these pretty well. Also might be a good recap of some new features in Firebird.

— What do you like most of all in Firebird? and What is your most favourite feature/improvement in Firebird 3?

— How clean and transparent is in outside. I'm really looking for proper SMP support. Also as a provider writer the external stored procedures/triggers/... are really interesting. Although there's probably a lot of work to do (and it's not moving further much). See you soon in Prague!

Pavel Cisar, IBPhoenix

Pavel , What do you think people will be interested in most of all in your presentations?

IBPhoenix provides information, support and development services to Firebird users for fourteen years, so we've got a lot of experience with a wide range of problems that these users encounter. We're creative and always look for new ways how to solve their problems more effectively, and where appropriate we make tools that help us get the job done. In my presentation I'll share my experiences using monitoring tables and trace and audit services to solve various problems. I'll focus on what they are good for and the methods and tools that worked best for me.

— What do you like most of all in Firebird? and What is your most favorite feature/improvement in Firebird 3?

Firebird is simple (to use and manage) yet is also a very powerful and flexible engine with great support (drivers, libraries, applications etc.) and vibrant community. It's not good for everything, but works well for most cases. I'll always go with Firebird as my first choice, and look for other solutions only in rare cases where Firebird is not good enough.

About Firebird 3, it's hard to pick one favorite feature/improvement as every one of them is important and contributes IMHO equally to make V3 an awesome release.

Upscene releases Database Workbench V5.0.4

node-firebird a pure JavaScript and asynchronous Firebird client for Node.js V0.2.0 is available.

Compiling IBASE sql driver for Qt 5.3 on openSUSE 13.1

Upscene announces the availability of FB TraceManager V3.5.3.

Mini-interview with Carlos Cantu about the Firebird Conference 2014. Today's guest is Carlos Cantu, speaker at Firebird Conference 2014.

— Carlos, why do you think people will be interested most of all in your talk?

My talk about Data Auditing logs is based on a solution that I have been using for the last 6 years, in my own ERP. It was created because from time to time I got contacted by customers saying that some information simply disappeared from the database, or got modified without nobody editing it, suggesting that the software had some bug <g>. With auditing logs, it became really easy to show/prove to the customer what really happened, allowing you to keep a history of everything that was done inside the database.

The other talk is about Numerics in Firebird. Due to the several different datatypes available for storing numbers in Firebird, each one with different characteristics/behaviors, it is possible for developers to get confused about their differences and what would be the best type to use for a specific requirement. This talk will try to answer those questions, as well show some tips, tricks and side-effects that sometimes are not known by the developer, showing also the actual rules used in the maths involving numeric/decimal types.

— What do you like most of all in Firebird and what is your most favourite feature/improvement in Firebird 3?

I have used Firebird since its first release, and what I really enjoy about it is the fact that it is small, easy to install and configure, very stable, has low maintenance and, of course, it is totally free!

Firebird 3 is long awaited for its improvements related to extracting all the potential of SMP machines, even when shared cache is being used. Of course, this feature is a must in the current world where SMP machines have become the standard configuration for servers. But FB 3 also brings some very nice features, and I really enjoy the fact that now we can encrypt the database file and the wired communication, and the wire protocol has improved allowing better performance in high latency networks.

Adriano dos Santos Fernandes - I put onto my github account the first version of cloop (Cross Language Object Oriented Programming). This first version is limited to void and int datatypes, supports C, C++ and Free Pascal, and the makefile works only in POSIX.

Mini-interview about the Firebird Conference 2014 with Mark Rotteveel. Today's guest is Mark Rotteveel, developer of JayBird, the Firebird JDBC driver, and speaker at the Firebird Conference 2014.

— Mark, What do you think people will find most interesting in your presentation/talk?

I have two talks scheduled. My first talk is about the current state of development of Jaybird, and the changes implemented (and to be implemented) for Jaybird 3.0. I think this is interesting for people who use Jaybird and want to know more about the upcoming changes.

My second talk is about using Hibernate and jOOQ to query a Firebird database from Java without having to deal with the low-level JDBC operations. Hibernate is a ORM mapper, while jOOQ is - besides a (light-weight) ORM mapper - a Domain Specific Language (DSL) library for building queries with compile time checks. Both are also useful to bridge dialect differences between various databases.

Although introductory, I think this is interesting for application developers, even when their target platform isn't Java.

— What do you like most of all in Firebird? And what is your favourite feature/improvement in Firebird 3?

I think the key thing about Firebird is its simplicity and small footprint, install it and you are - basically - good to go. I think my favorite new feature in Firebird 3 are the window functions. They provide much needed extensions for analytical queries.

Upscene announces the availability of FB TraceManager V3.5.2.

Mini-interview with Paul Reeves

— Paul, what do you think people will be interested jn most of all in your presentations?

Well, I've always been fascinated by trying to measure firebird performance.

This year I've spent quite a bit of time working on a test harness that produces consistent output, and above all, a database to store and analyse the data produced by the tests. The results are quite surprising and to me at least, very interesting. I'm certainly enjoying putting the presentation together and hopefully it will be enjoyable for people to sit through.

— What do you like most of all in Firebird?

The pace of development. I know we seem to be behind schedule on v3 but I'm barely up to speed with the new features that have been added in v2.n. A lot of the things that used to be difficult back in the day (I've been using Firebird since IB4) are so easy now. The way text blobs can be converted to and from strings, the way sql statements can be constructed on the fly in stored procedures, the fact that domains can now be used consistently in SPs - these are just a few of the things that make database development easier. And of course there are monitoring tables, db and txn triggers. And loads more stuff besides.

— What is your most favourite feature/improvement in Firebird 3?

It is too early to say. There is so much new stuff in v3 that it will take me a while to get on top of it all. Probably best to ask me in about two years time :)

Mini-interview with Ann W. Harrison

We are starting series or mini-interviews with speakers of Firebird International Conference 2014. The first guest is Ann W. Harrison:

— Ann, what do you think people will be interested most of all in your presentation/talk?

Ann: — Both talks address concerns that are of interest the most novice of Firebird users ("Why does gfix think my database is broken?" and "What's the big deal about multi-threading"). The talks start with the basics and then move into more complex understanding of the underlying issues (careful write, threading alternatives) that may suggest future directions for Firebird.

Jim Starkey and I will share both talks. I'll address the way things are now, using my experience on the Firebird Support list to respond to common questions. Jim will talk about his post-Firebird experiences - he's written four more relational databases, each with different ways of dealing with on-disk consistency (the gfix issue) and threading.

— What do you like most of all in Firebird? and - what is your most favourite feature/improvement in Firebird 3?

Ann: The best feature of Firebird, from my perspective, is that it doesn't fight back. It's easy to install, requires very little tuning, and runs on lots of different platforms in multiple configurations: embedded, classic, and now multi-theaded server. Performance and reliability are givens - without them, you can't have a product. I also like the fact that Firebird can be distributed with commercial products without a license fee, so it's attractive to application builders outside the US.

As for V3, beyond question, my favorite feature is the multi-threaded shared server. Giving users the full use of their multi-processor servers without the overhead of a process per connection really moves Firebird into a new era.

• Thank you, and see you soon in Prague!

We'd like to invite you to the Firebird event of the year - The Firebird International Conference 2014.

It will last for 2 days, and takes place on October 24-25th, in Prague. The Conference will be devoted to 2 main topics: Firebird 3 features and Firebird performance.

With Firebird 3 Beta 1 (due to be announced next week) you will be in a position to start testing, doing development or considering migration to Firebird 3.0, and, since Firebird 3.0's SuperServer configuration shows three times better performance than Firebird 2.5 SuperClassic, it is probably not a bad idea! (Note: There will be special sessions devoted to performance testing and comparison of Firebird 3.0 v's Firebird 2.5.)

Dmitry Yemanov and Vlad Khorsun (core developers of Firebird) will present detailed explanations of the new features in Firebird 3.0, with a focus on its architectural changes and advantages which this new technology will give to Firebird users.

There will be two very special speakers at Firebird Conference: Ann Harrison and Jim Starkey (the original creator of InterBase), presenting interesting topics about multi-threading and orphan database pages.

There will be sessions devoted to the new abilities of performance monitoring with Firebird 3.0 enhancements, and a session about Firebird database recovery and how to avoid possible database corruption.

The developers responsible for the Firebird JDBC/.NET drivers will also be at the conference, so this is a good chance to ask questions about optimal performance and future development.

And, as usual, Firebird Conference is also is good place to meet with existing friends and make new friends, to find like-minded people and get invaluable experience and conversation.

For more details please take a look at the list of presentations.

The conference page with more details about the location and how to register.

Don't miss your chance to participate in the main Firebird event of the year!

Database .NET 13.0 has been released.

Upscene has `released <http://www.upscene.com/news/item/20140918>_ Database Workbench V5.0.2.

Open source all the tasks by by Fernando Pimenta mentions Firebird.

ADO.NET provider 4.5.1.0 for Firebird is available for download. More information on changes are in the Release Notes.

Firebird V2.5.3 for Centos/RHEL 7 is now available from the EPEL 7 stable repository.

Microsoft Windows - Forced Writes ON or OFF? by Paul Beach.

Firebird FreeBSD port is updated to V2.5.3.

The report of the 11th edition of the Firebird Developers Day Conference in Brazil is now available.

Database Workbench V5 is now available. Details of whats new and improved in this major release can be found via this link.

pyfirebirdsql V0.9.4 has been released.

Node-Firebird V0.1.3 has been released.

Lukas Eder, creator of the jOOQ Java framework will be at Firebird International Conference 2014 in Prague on October 25th.

Ruby Firebird Extension Library 0.7.4 released.

Stroustrup: Why the 35-year-old C++ still dominates 'real' dev on InfoWorld.

The Russian Misson Control Center uses Firebird.

V0.8.9 Active Record Firebird Adapter for Rails is now available.

TurboBird V1.2.0 has been released and is available for download.

IBReplicator V4.2.2 is available for download. For changes please read the release notes.

Firebird Conference 2014: Main Topics and Speakers - Detailed descriptions of a number of the main talks are now available.

Firebird V2.5.3 Final for LTS Ubuntu releases has been uploaded into Firebird stable PPA.

Firebird V2.5.3 has been uploaded to EPEL Testing and Fedora Rawhide.

Firebird V2.5.3 has been released to Debian unstable.

ADO.NET provider 4V.5.0.0 for Firebird is ready and available for download. Jiri's notes on this release.

Building Flamerobin for static release. Also available as a binary snapshot for Linux x86-64.

Firebird V2.5.3 is available for download.

IBX For Lazarus (Firebird Express) V.1.1 is available.

An early snapshot of Jaybird V3.0 is available for testing purposes. "The protocol implementation has been fundamentally rewritten and changes have been made for stricter JDBC conformance. As a result the driver might exhibit different behavior than previous versions. Please read the release notes carefully to see if those differences are intentional. Bug reports about undocumented changes in behavior are appreciated." The driver can be downloaded from Sourceforge or Maven (from the sonatype snapshot repository).

SQL fights back against NoSQL's big data cred with SQL/MDA spec on The Register.

Firebird V2.1.6 is now available for download. For the full list of changes please refer to the Release Notes.

Python driver for Firebird - FDB 1.4.1 released.

Not so fast, NoSQL -- SQL still reigns by Serdar Yegulalp on InfoWorld.

Migration to open source tool inspires new Linux distribution by Fernando Pimenta on opensource.com

Database Workbench V4.4.7 is available.

Upscene announce the release of Hopper (Stored Routine debugger) V1.5.1.

Vim syntax highlighter for Firebird (V1).

Firebird Conference 2014, Prague, Czech. Rep. Early Bird registration is now available: conference package (2 days) is 89.85 Euros only.

Firebird V3.0, Dimitry Yemanov, "We’re approaching Beta 1 (hopefully to be released in July), with one more Beta to follow and then RC appearing this Autumn, probably around the conference time."

The 11th edition of the Firebird Developers Day (Brazil) Conference will take place on the 30th August 2014, at Piracicaba, São Paulo.

Database .NET V11.7 has been released.

Firebird Tour, "All About Transactions", Moscow, June 4, 2014, photographs.

ADO.NET provider V4.2.0.0 for Firebird is available for download. This release mainly implements support for creating backups and streaming these back to client via the Services API.

Clad Genius internally uses a Firebird database (cafw.fdb).

The Firebird project accepts pull requests from a Github mirror to Subversion.

75% World Cup discount on Database Workbench etc at Upscene.

NodeJS query example using asynchronous promises.

Ruby Firebird Extension Library V0.7.2 has been released.

Node Firebird driver, node-firebird-libfbclient can be built and used on MacOSX.

Firebird Conference 2014 - Call for papers. If you think you have something interesting to present at the Firebird conference to other Firebird users please send us your proposals.

The Firebird Conference 2014 will take place on October 24-25, 2014, in Prague, Czech Republic, at the Clarion Congress Hotel.

Active Record Firebird Adapter for Rails has been updated to V0.8.8

Ruby Firebird Extension Library (fb), now at V0.7.1 with a few fixes.

Field Notes: Clueless CIOs aside, open source is 'frightening and fantastic' on ComputerWorld.

Database .NET 11.2 has been released.

Sparx Systems - Enterprise Architect 11 uses Firebird.

Database Workbench V4.4.6 Pro is now available.

Jaybird V2.2.5 has been released and is available for download.

Firebird Tour: Seminar in Moscow, "All About Transactions", on June 4th 2014. More details (Russian).

Firebird backend for Django V1.6.x (stable) has been released.

TurboBird V1.0.2 is available.

IBReplicator V4.2.1 has been released and is available for download. Updated Release Notes.

Current status of the Firebird Roadmap.

Pyfirebirdsql V0.9.3 has been released.

ADO.NET provider for Firebird V4.1.5.0 is available for download. A list of changes from the previous version is also available.

Firebird driver for Go (golang) with support for the Firebird 3.0 Authorisation protocol (SRP).

This web site and online shop are not affected by the Heartbleed (CVE-2014-0160) bug. We do not use the vulnerable version of the OpenSSL library.

How to patch, build and debug PHP extension : PDO Firebird on Tech Blog.

Upscene release FB TraceManager V3.5.1.

How to start a transaction as a "FIRST SNAPSHOT"? on itstop.pl

Upscene announce the release of Hopper (Stored Procedure debugger) V1.5

FirebirdSQL and IntelliJ IDEA on Chris Krycho's blog.

Jaybird 2.2.5-Snapshot is available for testing.

Pursuing adoption of free and open source software in governments by Andy Oram on O'Reilly Radar.

Firebird Client V3.0 Alpha 2 for Android download is available.

The Firebird Roadmap has been updated.

A new FlameRobin snapshot has been uploaded to Debian unstable compiled with wxWidgets 3.0.

DBD-Firebird (Perl driver) V1.18 has been released.

Database Workbench V4.4.5 has been released.

Usando EXCEL para leer bases de datos de Firebird on Firebird SQL's blog.

ER/Studio Data Architect V9.6.1 now has official support for Firebird.

A tutorial introduction to Sqitch change management on Firebird.

Spanish blog about Firebird gets 116,000 visits in a year.

MySQL versus Firebird on Ocelot Computer Services blog.

Firebird is on the cover of this month's issue of C++Builder Developer's Journal. The 2-part article inside, by Iskander Shafikov, discusses how to use Firebird in the C++Builder IDE. Serious Firebirders are invited to request a free PDF or HTML copy of this issue. You can view the preview cover at the BCBJ website for a limited time. To request your free copy, you need to email the Editor-in-Chief.

Sample application using NodeJS/Express and Firebird.

Database .NET 10.7 has been released.

UTF-8 is handled correctly by Firebird and Flamerobin... (but not by MySQL).

Firebird and Unicode databases on Roman's blog.

Interesting article: Bruce Momjian: PostrgreSQL Prefers the Scenic Route on E Commerce Times.

FB TraceManager V3.5.0 has been released.

IBFirstAID for Firebird/InterBase V3.7 has been released.

pyfirebirdsql V0.9.0 has been released with experimental Firebird 3.0 SRP authorisation support. An example.

Freedom ERP uses Firebird.

Libreoffice has a new release (V4.2.1) with a small fix for the Firebird driver.

IBPReplicator V4.2 has been released with support for replication from InterBase, Firebird or Oracle to other databases via ODBC.

Active Record Firebird Adapter updated to V0.8.7.

ActiveRecord Firebird Adapter has been updated to V0.8.6.

pyfirebirdsql V0.8.3 has been released.

Firebird backend for Django 1.6.x has been promoted to Release Candidate status.

Firebird V3.0 Alpha 2 is now available for download and testing.

New experimental features preview in LibreOffice 4.2: Firebird SQL connector for LibreOffice Base (Andrzej Hunt). When creating a new Database, select Firebird Embedded in the drop down menu (you have to first enable the Experimental features in Tools->Options-> LibreOffice->Advanced). This allows creation of databases that perform many times faster than the previous built-in HSQLDB 1.8, avoiding the C++-to-Java overhead inherent in using HSQLDB. We plan to phase HSQLDB out over the next few releases, and provide a smooth migration path to Firebird. Connecting to modern HSQLDB 2.x external databases remains available through HSQLDB's native interface, namely JDBC.

Firebird DDEX Provider for Visual Studio V3.0.1 has been released (now supports Visual Studio 2013).

node-firebird-libfbclient V0.0.10 has been updated for #nodejs V0.10.x

Database Workbench V4.4.4 Pro has been released.

Firebird Foreign Data Wrapper for PostgreSQL Release 0.2.1 is available as an unstable release.

Firebird Foreign Data Wrapper for PostgreSQL Release 0.1.6 is available as an unstable release.

What is SQL? on Business News Daily mentions Firebird.

Firebird Foreign Data Wrapper for PostgreSQL Release 0.1.5 is available as an unstable release.

Database .NET version 10.3 has been released.

FBScanner V3.6.1 has been released.

Generate PDF output from Firebird SQL data on a Python blog.

Firebird Maestro V14.1 has been released.

Upscene announce the availability of Advanced Data Generator V3.2.0.

IBX 1.0.5 for Lazarus has been released.

TurboBird 1.0 (Firebird administration tool) has been released.

PostgreSQL - A Foreign Data Wrapper (FDW) for Firebird.

Firebird JDBC Driver (Jaybird) V2.2.4 for Android has been released.

ADO.NET provider for Firebird V4.1.0.0 is available for download. Changes are available via the tracker.

Firebird V3.0 Alpha 2 has been tagged.

IBPhoenix would like to wish all Firebird users a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

TurboBird V0.9.12 has been released.

A new build of embedded Firebird for IOS is availble, this corrects some issues locating and loading ICU dylibs.

A German translation of the Firebird Database Cache Buffer document is available.

Debian: 7.3 stable is released with Firebird security fixes.

Ștefan Suciu - "My patch to implement support for Firebird in Sqitch (a database change management application) has reached a milestone - is about to be merged, but there is a drawback..."

SQL Maestro announce the availablity of Firebird Data Wizard V13.12.

NorpaNet a European project based on FirebirdSQL 3.0 and Oxygene of RemObjects (Pascal) aims to create an all in one CRM/ERP/CMS application.

IBProvider V3.18 has been released.

pyfirebirdsql V0.8.1 has been released.

Jaybird V2.2.4 has been released. For more information please read the release notes.

Firebird ActiveRecord gem has been updated to V0.8.2

Perl driver DBD-Firebird V1.16 has been released. Changelog.

Two short videos from the Firebird seminars held in Prague and Siegburg .

Upscene release Hopper V1.4.1 (Hopper is a Windows-based Stored Routine and Trigger Debugger, available for InterBase, Firebird and MySQL).

Upscene announce the availability of Advanced Data Generator V3.1.2.

Database Workbench 4.4.3 has been released.

.Net Provider for OleDb release candidate.

A new version of the ADO.NET provider for Firebird (4.0.0.0) is now availble. Whats new.

Database .NET V9.8 has been released.

Firebird ActiveRecord adapter 0.7.9 for Rails 3.2+ has been released.

The schedule for the Firebird seminars “All About Transactions” is now available.

Firebird 2.5.2 Update 1 for all Ubuntu releases has been uploaded into Firebird stable PPA.

An update about embedded Firebird on iOS, a new build is available that fixes a problem in how the bin directory located the firebird.msg file etc. A new function realpath added to config_root.cpp for darwin now returns the canonicalized absolute pathname.

A Firebird 2.0 Data Access Layer With VB.NET on FreeVBCode.

Laufeyjarson writes… on Upgrading Databases.

Firebird ActiveRecord Adapter V0.7.8 for Rails 3.2+ has been marked as stable.

FB TraceManager V3.0.2 has been released.

Database Workbench V4.4.2 is now available.

eHealth system up and running (a small fictional town's health clinic application) on Nigel Week's blog.

go-fb: A Firebird package for Go has been recently updated.

LibreOffice Embedded Firebird/HSQLDB performance comparison on AHunt.org

Converging and Cyclic Cascades with Firebird on Splinter of the Singularity's blog.

IBProvider V3.16.5 has been released.

Database Workbench V4.4.1, free Lite Edition is now available.

A new version of IB LogManager (V2.12.5) is available.

Upscene announce the release of Advanced Data Generator 3.1.1.

Upscene Productions announce Hopper V1.4.0 (a Windows-based Stored Routine and Trigger Debugger, available for InterBase, Firebird and MySQL).

I have updated the Firebird embedded on iOS page on my blog to reflect the current state of things, now my Mac has been returned.

Nix Firebird package for NixOS has been created.

New Flamerobin snapshots (V0.9.x) have been uploaded to SourceForge.

ADO.NET provider V3.2.0.0 for Firebird is available for download.

A new version of LazSqlX has been released with Firebird support.

Jaybird 2.2.4-SNAPSHOT version has been released for testing. Download is available at Sourceforge.

How to build a Firebird client for Android (arm) on Mariuz's blog.

Database .NET V9.4 has been released.

An update about Firebird on iOS on Paul Beach's blog.

Answers for 3 transaction questions on IBSurgeons blog.

It is time for Firebird on Android and IOS? On Firebird News.

Three questions about transactions every Firebird developer should answer correctly on the IBSurgeon blog.

There are a few days left for early-bird registration for the Firebird "Transactions" seminar in Siegburg, Germany, November 22nd 2013.

IBReplicator V4.1.4 has been released. Changes can be found in the Release Notes.

Ștefan Suciu, working to implement support for Firebird in Sqitch a database change management application.

GSOC LibreOfficce Firebird Integration Weekly Update 14.

Django and Firebird support on the Firebird News blog by Adrian Marius Popa.

Crazy Translations of Simple SQL Expressions to Various SQL Dialects by lukaseder.

SOCI (a C++ Database Access Library) V3.2.2 has been released.

GSOC LibreOffice Firebird Integration Weekly Update 13.

NBackup support in FirebirdClient (.NET provider) on Jiri Cincura's blog

GSOC LibreOffice Firebird Integration Weekly Update 12.

Firebird 2013 Tour - Siegburg, Germany) November 22, 2013.

Getting OpenCobol on Linux working with Firebird’s Cobol gpre. By Paul Beach.

Perl driver DBD-Firebird V1.12 has been released.

FBDataGuard V2.8 has been released.

The report of the 10th edition of the Brazilian Firebird Developers Day Conference is now available on-line.

Database Workbench V4.4.1 has been released.

12 simple rules: How Ted Codd transformed the humble database by Gavin Clarke on The Register.

ADO.NET provider for Firebird 3.1.1.0 is available. Bug fix for Entity Framework support. More details in the tracker.

A new snapshot version of Jaybird 2.2.4 is available. Most notable changes are support for the Firebird 3.0 alpha 1 BOOLEAN type and support for Java 8. Other changes. Note: This snapshot is intended only for testing purposes.

Database .NET 9.0 has been released.

LibreOffice Firebird Integration Weekly Update No. 08 by Andrzej Hunt

Upscene announce the release of Advanced Data Generator V3.1.

Firebird 3.0 Alpha 1 release is now available for download and testing.

Some Analytics on Paul Beach's blog.

IBConsole and Firebird V2.5.2 Classic on Paul Beach's blog.

ADO.NET provider for Firebird V3.1.0 is available for download.

Firebird’s ADO.NET provider (sources) has a new home on Jiri Cincura's blog.

GSOC LibreOffice Firebird Integration Weekly Update 07 Report.

There is a Jaybird 2.2.4 snapshot available for download with basic Java 8/JDBC 4.2 support.

A Node-Firebird group has been created for discussions about the asynchronous Firebird client for Node.js.

Firebird Database Backup v1.2 is available.

SQL Spreadsheets V2.1.0.15 is available.

Firebird has now been integrated into LibreOffice master!

Database Workbench V4.4.0 free Lite Editions have been released.

Updated Firebird Embedded on MacOSX on Paul Beach's blog.

Firebird, Angularjs, Node and Socket.IO - Part 1 on John Tomaselli's blog.

Firebird ODBC Driver V2.0.2 has been released.

InterBase/Firebird Transaction Simulator on Felix J Colibri's blog.