Firebird Project wishes Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all users and developers! This New Year maintain the enthusiasm and faith that we will achieve what we set out. Have a new year full of successes and satisfactions!
Transaction processing is often cited as a greatest asset of database systems, and is a strong argument to stop using “flat-file” databases and change to one of a wide range of more “modern” systems because of the significant safety improvements that are available for stored data.
The SQL language is designed to define requests for data manipulation, and to specify the final representation of results, but by design it does not support the definition of how the request should be handled by the database system. It’s up to database system to decide the best (i.e. fastest) method.
Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 2.5.5 — the latest minor release in the Firebird 2.5 series. This sub-release introduces several bug fixes and a few improvements, please refer to the Release Notes for the full list of changes. Binary kits for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are immediately available for download.
Reviewers needed who are fluent in English and SQL
The Firebird Project needs your opinion regarding some points in the Windows installer of the upcoming Firebird 3.0 final release. Please answer the survey available at https://eSurv.org?u=fb3installer based on your preferences. Your answer can help to guide us in future enhancements. Survey will be online until 20-Nov-2015.
Firebird Project announces the first Release Candidate of Firebird 3.0, the next major version of the Firebird relational database, which is now available for testing.