March to May 2020
Activities for period
- Released Jaybird 4.0.0 and 3.0.9
- Worked on Jaybird manual
- Migrated firebird-java mailing list to Google Groups removed JCA support from Jaybird 5 (JDBC-618)
- Removed Java 7 support from Jaybird 5 (JDBC-614)
- Migrated Jaybird 5 build to Gradle (JDBC-420)
- Various refactoring and cleanup in Jaybird 5
- Implemented minimal support for extended TIME(STAMP) WITH TIME ZONE (JDBC-611)
- Implemented SPI to be able to load Firebird Embedded from classpath (JDBC-533)
- Other issues worked on: JDBC-386, JDBC-509, JDBC-564, JDBC-610, JDBC-612, JDBC-616, JDBC-617, JDBC-619, JDBC-620, JDBC-623
Planned/expected activities
- Working on Jaybird manual
- Working on new asynchronous Firebird driver for Java using the R2DBC API
- Identifying way forward with TIME ZONE types due to inconsistent and confusing behaviour of named zones
- Releasing Jaybird 4.0.1
- Jaybird 5 developemnt
Mark Rotteveel
Delft, The Netherlands
