Last updated: March 2022
Firebird 5.0
This release is intended to be time-based rather than feature-based. Below are the features that are considered desirable and (hopefully) doable during the next few years. Those finished within the established timeframe will be included into the Firebird 5.0 release.
Timeframes
| Alpha Release (feature preview) |
June 2022 |
IN PROGRESS |
| Beta Release (stable enough) |
September 2022 |
IN PROGRESS |
| Final Release |
December 2022 |
IN PROGRESS |
Features in the pipeline (to be updated)
| GBAK's parallel operations |
CORE-2992 |
Vlad Khorsun |
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| New data access paths, subquery transformations |
CORE-4823 |
Dmitry Yemanov |
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| Optimizer statistics: more data (including histograms), auto-update |
CORE-1082,
CORE-1686 |
Dmitry Yemanov / Vlad Khorsun |
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| TRUNCATE TABLE command |
CORE-2479 |
Dmitry Yemanov |
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| Tablespaces |
CORE-688 |
Roman Simakov |
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