From all of us at Firebird Project, we'd like to wish you a safe and happy holiday season and a peaceful and prosperous new year!
And below is a short overview of Firebird events in 2021:
Major Releases
- June 01 - Firebird 4, the major release with replication and many other changes.
Minor Releases
Please note that Firebird 2.5 will be discontinued after the release of Firebird 5 (which is planned for the end of 2022), so please upgrade as soon as possible.
Drivers
- Jaybird: releases 4.0.4 (Oct 2), 4.0.3 (March 20), 3.0.11 (March 20), 4.0.2 (Jan 17), 3.0.10 (Jan 17)
- ADO.NET for Firebird: 8.5 (Aug 20), 8.0.1 (April 07)
- Python: Firebird-Python 1.4 (Dec 16), 1.3.4 (Nov 30), (Sep 14)
- The recent versions of other drivers can be found in the Third-Party Software section.
Documentation
- Feb 24 - Firebird 3.0 Language Reference (English)
- April 21 - Firebird Migration Guide
- Nov 23 - Firebird 3 Sprachreferenz - Language Reference in German
- Dec 24 - Firebird 4 Language Reference (v1.3)
Many thanks to Mark Rotteveel, Martin Köditz, and Denis Simonov!
Books
- Firebird Migration Guide To Firebird 4, by Carlos Cantu, English (Oct 11) and Portuguese (Aug 31)
Articles, Videos, and Online Events
- Jan 9 - Firebird Embedded in a sandboxed MacOS App
- Feb 8 - Interview with Ann Harrison at Developer’s Pub
- March 16 - How Firebird Database Encryption Works
- April 09 - Firebird Performance Newsletter: Issue 1
- Nov 6 - Is Firebird 4 slower than Firebird 3? No, it is not
- Nov 17 - Firebird Developers Day in Brazil Online (Portuguese)
- Dec 15 - Live Q&A with Dmitry Yemanov
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