The Firebird Project team is happy to announce that download kits for the second (and hopefully, last) V.2.1 release candidate are now available for Windows and Linux 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. MacOSX Intel 32-bit are there, x64 still in QA, coming soon.

You are invited to test it with as much rigour and vigor as you like and report your experiences (good or bad) back to the Firebird-devel or the Firebird-test list.

As always, please be patient if the files you want haven't made it out to the mirrors at your first attempt.

A second Alpha build of the forthcoming FirebirdClient (ADO.NET Data Provider) for .NET 3.5/2.0 is released for field-testing. Mainly, this Alpha fixes some bugs. Development of the new Entity Framework support is still work-in-progress.