The Firebird Project team is happy to announce that the release candidate for Firebird 2.1.5 is ready for testing. This includes packages for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X platforms, as well as the source code tarball.

Please test as much as possible and report bugs and regressions to the firebird-devel mailing list.

The Firebird Project is pleased to announce the release of Firebird 2.0.7.

The source code and binary packages for Windows 32-bit, Linux x86 and x64 and MacOSX/Darwin x86 are available for download. Please refer to the Release Notes for the list of bugs fixed in this release.

The Firebird JDBC team is happy to announce the release of Jaybird 2.2.0 beta-1.

This release contains the following changes:

• Enhanced support for JDBC 4.0 (Java 6),
• Support for JDBC 4.1 (Java 7) — including try-with-resources support,
• Implementation of getGeneratedKeys(),
• Enhanced support for the services API,
• Support for 64 bit native libraries for Type 2 / Embedded,
• A number of bug fixes.

The beta release is also available on Maven (*):
<groupId>org.firebirdsql.jdbc</groupId>
<artifactId>jaybird-jdkXX</artifactId>
<version>2.2.0-beta-1</version>

The artifactId depends on your target Java version: jaybird-jdk15, jaybird-jdk16 or jaybird-jdk17.

*) As this is the first release to Maven and we need manual authorization from Sonatype, it can take several days before the artifacts are really available on Maven.

Today Jiri Cincura announced 2.7.5 update of Firebird.NET — ADO.NET provider for Firebird SQL. More details.

The 3rd issue of Firebird SQL Newsletter was delivered to all subscribers yesterday. You can read it online here.

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