Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 3.0.6 — the 6th point release in the Firebird 3.0 series. 

This sub-release offers many bug fixes and also adds a few improvements, please refer to the Release Notes for the full list of changes.
Binary kits for Windows, Linux and Android platforms are immediately available for download, Mac OS packages will follow shortly.

Watch the first episode of the Developers.Pub series of interviews with Firebird Core developers. The idea is to let people know more about those guys and their life's history. The first guest was Dmitry Yemanov, chief of Firebird Development Team. The audio is in English, and there are subtitles in Portuguese.

The article below provides instructions on how to quickly install Firebird 3 from the official binaries package on the modern Linux versions (CentOS 8 and Ubuntu 19), and also describes details of the installation: 
Installing Firebird 3 on modern Linux versions: CentOS 8 and Ubuntu 19
The article will be amended soon to cover the most recent release of Ubuntu (version 20) as well.