September to December 2020

Most of the September quarter 2020 was dedicated to polishing of FB4 preparing for RC1.

Bug Fixes, a few also backported to FB3:

1. Fixed CORE-6398: Error converting string with hex representation of integer to smallint
2. Fixed CORE-6396: Unknown tag (0) in isc_svc_query() results
3. Fixed CORE-6412: Firebird is freezing when trying to manage users via triggers
4. Fixed CORE-6425: Exception in client library in IAttachment::createBatch()
5. Make sample of key holder plugin partially usable when chaining plugins
6. Fixed issues with security database name configuration parameter related to RDB$CONFIG table
7. Fixed CORE-6432: Possible buffer overflow in client library in Attachment::getInfo() call
8. Security issue -  avoid negative offsets (i.e. getting out of allocated buffer) in case of malformed network packet
9. Fixed CORE-6433: Server crash when calling UDR from execute statement
10. Fixed CORE-6441: Srp plugin keeps connection after database has been removed for ~10 seconds.
11. Fixed CORE-6450: Races in cache of opened security databases
12. Fixed CORE-5197: Segfault when process exits with active sweep thread
13. Fixed CORE-6023: FB4 unable to overwrite older ods database

1. Code cleanup: avoid various gcc warnings.
2. Code cleanup: removed dispose() and release() from most of interfaces implementations.
3. Fixed some tests in TCS

1. Fixed ARM64/linux build.
2. Fixed arm-32 (Raspberry Pi, linux) build.
3. Fixed android (NDK 13) build.