September

• Moving libtomcrypt to extern.
• Improvement CORE-5606 - Add expression index name to exception message if computation failed.
• Working in CORE-5611 - Higher memory consumption for prepared statements in FB3.

• Finished rework on security to have less exposure to call user methods with elevated privileges.

August

• Verifying security bug CORE-5518.
• Reviewing FB 4 release notes.
• Verifying CORE-5592 - Problem with INSERT (...) RETURNING (...) and using dbExpress with Delphi.
• Writing examples for window function frames to the release notes.
• Verifying bug CORE-5595.
• Verifying bug CORE-5592.

• Fixes for the Linux installer.
• Fix #10 - error when calling Java function inside default connection of other Java function.
• Started rework on security to have less exposure to call user methods with elevated privileges.

July

• Finished work on Improvement CORE-5380 - Allow subroutines to call others subroutines and themself recursively.
• Fixed CORE-5580 - Signature of packaged functions is not checked for mismatch with [NOT] DETERMINISTIC attribute.
• Improvement CORE-4436 - Support for different hash algorithms in HASH system function.

• Fixed problem with UDRCPP and MSVC official build.
• Backported fix for CORE-5580 - Signature of packaged functions is not checked for mismatch with [NOT] DETERMINISTIC attribute.
• Testing CORE-5578 - Creating a field with BOOLEAN type corrupts the table.
• Fixed CORE-5570 - Negative infinity (double) shown incorrectly without sign in isql.

June

• Finished fix for CORE-5545 - Wrong syntax with CREATE TRIGGER ... ON used with POSITION.
• Fixed errors and some warnings with the clang release build.
• Set writable permission for employee.fdb in the Linux install, otherwise it's unusable.
• Avoid method calls in NULL objects.
• Improvement CORE-5563 - Use exception instead bugcheck for EVL_expr.
• Fixed assertion with CREATE COLLATION.
• Started working on Improvement CORE-5380 - Allow subroutines to call others subroutines and themself recursively.
• 3.0 branch
  • Fixed CORE-5567 - Direct system table modifications are not completely prohibited.
  • Fixed CORE-5569 - ISQL incorrectly pads UNICODE_FSS/UTF8 columns when they use a collation.
  FB/Java
  • Pull request #11 - Store internal context data and implementation in LIFO stack.

  May

  Trunk
  • Fixed problem with SHOW DOMAIN and SHOW PACKAGE with names greater than 31 characters.
  • Updated TCS tests.
  • Fix show/extract of NUMERIC fields in dialect 1 databases.
  • Working on base transaction snapshot
  • Started fix Fixed CORE-5545 - Wrong syntax with CREATE TRIGGER ... ON
  used with POSITION.3.0 branch
  • Fixed CORE-5533 - Crash on 3.0 and 4.0 when DB contains database-level trigger.
  • Fixed CORE-5535 - Garbage value in RDB$FIELD_SUB_TYPE in RDB$FUNCTION_ARGUMENTS after altering function.
  • Fixed CORE-5542 - Database-level triggers related to TRANSACTION events (i.e. start, commit and rollback) do not take in account their
  • POSITION index (when more than one trigger for the same event type is defined).
  • Backported fix for CORE-5526 - External routines receives parameters with incorrect length or datatype.
  • Backported fix for CORE-5527 - External routines does not receive default values for they output parameters.
  • Fixed CORE-5550 - Computed decimal field in a view has wrong RDB$FIELD_PRECISION.
  Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
  Sao Paulo, Brazil