Firebird Project wishes you a wonderful and prosperous holiday. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2021! 
Take a look at the list of the most important releases, events, articles, news in 2020!
Firebird Releases

• Firebird 4.0 Beta 2, May 2020
• Firebird 3.0.7 October 2020 (earlier in 2020 were 3.0.5 and 3.0.6, both are substituted with 3.0.7)
• Firebird 4.0 RC1 - tag for source code of Release Candidate 1 was put December 31, builds and release notes to be released in January!

Support groups now are at Google Groups
May 2020 – due to the closing of Yahoo Groups, support groups were moved to Google Groups:  

• firebird-support  
• All groups are listed here

Events

• In September 2020 in Brazil took place Firebird Developers Day #17, in the online format (in Portuguese)

Active Telegram channels

• FirebirdSQL (English)  
• Meu querido Firebird SQL (Portuguese)  

Documentation, articles, materials
Documentation

• During 2020, Firebird Documentation was changed from DocBook to Asciidoc, a more convenient and flexible format. Many documents were reviewed and updated: www.firebirdsql.org/en/documentation/ 

Interesting Articles and Videos in 2020

• Net Latency and Firebird Performance 
• Firebird Gbak Tips and Tricks
• Install Firebird on QNAP-NAS
• Interview with Dmitry Yemanov, Firebird Core developer
• Installing Firebird 3 on modern Linux versions: CentOS 8 and Ubuntu 19
• Optimized Firebird configuration files: 2nd edition