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NOTE: Windows Vista CAUTION
If you are installing either of these old versions onto Windows Vista, the installer option to install the Control Panel applet must be DISABLED to avoid having it break the Control Panel on your Vista system.


Final release: v.1.5.6 (End of Series)
 

Release Date File Name Size Description
Windows Win32 Superserver and Classic
October 08, 2009 Firebird-1.5.6.5026-0-Win32.exe 3 MB Official Windows Setup and Installer for Classic and Superserver
October 08, 2009 Firebird-1.5.6.5026-0_win32.zip 4 MB Superserver and Classic for Windows, zipped archive with folders structure
October 08, 2009 Firebird-1.5.6.5026-0_embed_win32.zip 2 MB Embedded Server for Windows
Debug Kits
October 08, 2009 Firebird-1.5.6.5026-0-Win32_pdb.exe 4 MB Windows Setup and Installer for Classic and Superserver Debug Build
October 08, 2009 Firebird-1.5.6.5026-0_win32_pdb.zip 6 MB Windows Superserver and Classic Debug Build
October 08, 2009 Firebird-1.5.6.5026-0_embed_win32_pdb.zip 3 MB Embedded Server Debug Build for Windows
Linux Linux
Classic for Linux
October 08, 2009 FirebirdCS-1.5.6.5026-0.i686.rpm 4 MB Classic for Linux (.rpm)
October 08, 2009 FirebirdCS-1.5.6.5026-0.i686.tar.gz 4 MB Classic for Linux, compressed tarball
October 08, 2009 FirebirdCS-debuginfo-1.5.6.5026-0.i686.tar.gz 16 MB Debug Build, Classic for Linux, compressed tarball
Superserver for Linux (old threading model)
October 08, 2009 FirebirdSS-1.5.6.5026-0.i686.rpm 4 MB Superserver for Linux (.rpm)
October 08, 2009 FirebirdSS-1.5.6.5026-0.i686.tar.gz 4 MB Superserver for Linux, compressed tarball
October 08, 2009 FirebirdSS-debuginfo-1.5.6.5026-0.i686.tar.gz 16 MB Debug Build, Superserver for Linux, compressed tarball
Superserver for Linux (NPTL threading model)
DO NOT USE IF YOUR KERNEL DOES NOT SUPPORT NPTL THREADING!!! To test, run the command "getconf GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION". If it doesn't return something like "NPTL 2.n.n" but something like "linuxthreads-0.nn" then you must use the kit for the old threading model.
October 08, 2009 FirebirdSS-1.5.6.5026-0.nptl.i686.rpm 4 MB Superserver for Linux built in an NPTL kernel (.rpm)
October 08, 2009 FirebirdSS-1.5.6.5026-0.nptl.i686.tar.gz 4 MB Superserver for Linux built in an NPTL kernel, compressed tarball
October 08, 2009 FirebirdSS-debuginfo-1.5.6.5026-0.nptl.i686.tar.gz 16 MB Debug Build, Superserver for Linux, built in an NPTL kernel, compressed tarball
Superserver & Classic for MacOSX
October 08, 2009 FirebirdSS-1.5.5-5026-powerpc.pkg.zip 5.3 MB Superserver for MacOSX 10.2 + (PPC)
October 08, 2009 FirebirdCS-1.5.5-5026-powerpc.pkg.zip 4.9 MB Classic for MacOSX 10.2 + (PPC)
October 08, 2009 FirebirdSS-1.5.6-5026-i386.pkg.zip 5.5 MB Superserver for MacOSX 10.4 + (x86)
October 08, 2009 FirebirdCS-1.5.6-5026-i386.pkg.zip 5 MB Classic for MacOSX 10.4 + (x86)
Latest Source
October 08, 2009 firebird-1.5.6.5026.tar.bz2 5.2 MB Сompressed tarball
hp-ux Older ports for Classic & Superserver for HP-UX 11
December 04, 2006 FirebirdCS-1.5.3.4870-2-HPUX11.tar.gz 9.4 MB V1.5.3 Classic for HP-UX 11 32-bit, compressed tarball
November 27, 2006 FirebirdSS-1.5.3.4870-0-HPUX11.tar.gz 6.1 MB V1.5.3 Superserver for HP-UX 11 32-bit, compressed tarball
solaris Older ports for Classic & Superserver for Sun Solaris Intel & Sparc
August 10, 2006 Firebird-CS-1.5.3.4870-0-Solaris-i386.pkg.tar.Z 4.3 MB V1.5.3 Classic for Sun Solaris Intel, compressed tarball
August 10, 2006 Firebird-SS-1.5.3.4870-0-Solaris-i386.pkg.tar.Z 5.3 MB V1.5.3 Superserver for Sun Solaris Intel, compressed tarball
November 28, 2005 FirebirdCS-1.5.2.4731-0.Solaris-Sparc.pkg.gz 12 MB V1.5.2 Classic for Sun Solaris Sparc, compressed tarball
FreeBSD Older Classic Ports for FreeBSD
NOTE: The FreeBSD Ports Tree has also had the Firebird port updated to 1.5.2, so the FreeBSD 4.11 CDs should contain a Firebird 1.5.2 package. This also means you can roll your own package from the Ports Tree, as was done to build the packages below.
January 11, 2005 firebird-1.5.2-fbsd48.tgz 3.5 MB V1.5.2 Classic for FreeBSD/i386 4.8 /4.9 /4.10 /4.11 /4-stable, compressed tarball
January 11, 2005 firebird-1.5.2-fbsd53.tbz 2.3 MB V1.5.2 Classic for FreeBSD/i386 5.3, compressed tarball
January 04, 2005 firebird-1.5.2-fbsd521.tbz 2.2 MB V1.5.2 Classic for FreeBSD/i386 5.2.1, compressed tarball
AIX Older Classic Port for AIX-PPC
November 22, 2006 FirebirdCS-1.5.3.ppc.tar.gz 4.6 MB V1.5.3 Classic for AIX-PPC, compressed tarball
Miscellaneous
April 09, 2003 FbConfigManager.zip 229 KB Firebird Configuration Manager tool for manipulating the Firebird V1.5 Configuration file. Work in progress.
2004 Tracking Down Crashes on Win32 Systems   Notes by Nickolay Samofatov on using the debug builds to identify the cause of an engine crash.