The members of the Firebird Project team are proud to announce the release of Firebird 2.1, a full release containing many sought-after new features including database monitoring, global temporary tables, database triggers and dozens of new internal functions. This release includes kits for 64-bit Windows and all MacOSX environments and constitutes our largest-ever platform coverage. Enjoy! Details As usual, we ask you to be patient if the kits are slow reaching the mirrors.
Thanks to our porting fanatics Paul Beach and Alex Peshkov, an experimental build of Firebird 2.0.4 64bit for Solaris 10 AMD64 is available for download and testing.
The Firebird Project team announces a release candidate for the Firebird 2.0.4 sub-release, now available to download and test on 32-bit Windows, 32-bit and AMD64 Linux and MacOSX for x86 and PPC. Please test it thoroughly and report your experiences (good or bad) back to the Firebird-devel or the Firebird-test list.
The Firebird Project team is happy to announce that download kits for the second (and hopefully, last) V.2.1 release candidate are now available for Windows and Linux 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. MacOSX Intel 32-bit are there, x64 still in QA, coming soon.
A second Alpha build of the forthcoming FirebirdClient (ADO.NET Data Provider) for .NET 3.5/2.0 is released for field-testing. Mainly, this Alpha fixes some bugs. Development of the new Entity Framework support is still work-in-progress.
Jaybird 2.1.3 release fixes a bug related to character case issues affecting the DatabaseMetaData class.
Firebird V2.03 Superserver for Solaris 10 (Intel x86) has been added to the catalogue and is available for download, thanks to continued porting by Paul Beach and Alex Peshkov.
Firebird 2.1 RC1 builds for MacOSX 10.5 x86 are ready to download and test.
New kits for the Superserver installations on both i386 and PPC can be downloaded now. No changes to the engine but an installer problem has been fixed.
The ports of Firebird 2.0.3 Superserver and Classic for MacOSX PPC have been rebuilt with some fixes. New builds for Classic and Superserver PPC are available via the Firebird 2.0.3 Downloads page.