The firebird-driver package provides official Python Database API 2.0-compliant driver. In addition to the minimal feature set of the standard Python DB API, this driver also exposes the new (interface-based) client API introduced in Firebird 3, and number of additional extensions and enhancements for convenient use of Firebird RDBMS. The driver is written as pure-Python package (requires Python 3.8+) on top of Firebird client library (fbclient.so/dll) using ctypes. Driver supports Firebird version 3.0 and higher.

You can download this driver from PyPI or or install it using pip.

This release contains bug fixes and expanded support for Firebird 4 features. See the Changelog for full details.

Migration Guide to Firebird 4 - by Carlos Cantu - is now available at FireBase.
The eBook (in Portuguese) has 220 pages and is devoted to developers using any version of Firebird who wants to move to Firebird 4 in the most straight and peaceful way.
The guide goes beyond a simple migration, explaining concepts like Versioning and server architectures, essential topics to the correct understanding of some of the new features. The guide can probably save hours of work!

Para ver essa notícia em português, visite Firebase.com.br

New version 8.5 of ADO.NET provider for Firebird is ready for download.

This release contains, among other small improvements and fixes, support for Srp256 (and quite a few related changes, like support for SPB version 3) and a fix for performance regression for synchronous code paths introduced in 8.0.0.0.

An overview of all the changes can be found on GitHub.

You can get the bits from NuGet FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient, FirebirdSql.EntityFrameworkCore.Firebird and EntityFramework.Firebird.

Many thanks to BMI Leisure and Vertec for sponsoring several important features in this release!