Denis Simonov, editor and contributor of Firebird Language Reference, and also the author of Firebird Developer Guide, has written the "
Short Firebird Migration Guide To Firebird 4.0" (also available as
PDF):
- Manual installation of Firebird 40 on Windows
- Converting the database to a new format
- Migrating database aliases
- Migrating user list
- Configuring Trusted Authentication
- Application-level incompatibilities
Well, it is not that short: 23 pages of essential information about Firebird 4 migration.
It covers migration from 3.0 and from 2.5, since many people still use 2.5, but plan to jump to 4.0 due to native replication and improved performance.
We are expecting Firebird 4 release very, very soon, so, if you are eager to be the first to try it, download the most recent
snapshot, read this
Migration Guide, and do the test migration!