• Released Jaybird 4.0.4, 4.0.5, and 3.0.12 (Jaybird 3 is now end-of-life)
• Released firebird-testcontainers-java 1.2.0
• Released jaybird-fbclient 3.0.8.0
• Finished redesign of connection properties handling in Jaybird (jdp-2020-10 and jdp-2021-01)
• Replaced Travis CI build with GitHub Action, and enabled testing as part of GitHub Actions
• Implemented ChaCha wire encryption (jaybird#644)
• Implemented support for multi-row `RETURNING` (jaybird#675)
• Switched to default to stream blobs in Jaybird 5 (jdp-2021-02, jaybird#679)
• Replaced statement parser for generated keys support (jaybird#680)
• Added Jakarta EE 9 support for native resource unloading (jaybird#684)
• Implemented timeout support for `Connection#isValid(int)` (jaybird #685)
• Worked/experimented on scrollable cursor support (no ticket as of yet)
• Announced dropping support for Firebird 2.5 in Jaybird 6 (jdp-2021-03)
• Other issues worked on: jaybird#597, jaybird#646, jaybird#674, jaybird#676, jaybird#677, jaybird#678

Planned/expected activities

• Jaybird 4 bugfixes
• Jaybird 5 development
• Finish implementation of scrollable cursors
• Add support for batch API
• Working on r2dbc-firebird

Mark Rotteveel
Delft, The Netherlands