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Firebird 2.5.9 Sub-release
Firebird 2.5.8 Sub-release
Firebird 2.5.7 Sub-release
Firebird 2.5.6 Sub-release
Firebird 2.5.5 Sub-release
Firebird 2.5.4 Sub-release
Firebird 2.5.3 Security Update 1
Firebird 2.5.3 Sub-release
Firebird 2.5.2 Security Update 1
Firebird 2.5.2 Sub-release
Firebird 2.5.1 Sub-release
Bug Reporting
Documentation

Firebird 2.5.9 Sub-release

V. 2.5.9 Improvements

This sub-release comes with a significant list of bug fixes.

V. 2.5.9 Improvements

(CORE-5853) Two new context variables LOCALTIME and LOCALTIMESTAMP that are synonyms for CURRENT_TIME and CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, respectively. They can be used in this sub-release and in Firebird 3.0.4 and later, for forward-compatibility with Firebird 4. See Context Variables LOCALTIME and LOCALTIMESTAMP for details.

Implemented by A. dos Santos Fernandes

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(CORE-5434) A read-only transaction will no longer force write the Header\TIP page content to disk immediately after a change. This improvement gives a significant performance gain where there are numerous light read-only transactions. At this stage, it affects only Superserver. For Classic and Superclassic it is more complex to implement and should appear in Firebird 4.0.

Implemented by V. Khorsun

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(CORE-2493) The IP address of the remote host is now appended to error messages in firebird.log for TCP connections.

Implemented by V. Khorsun

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