Releases: FirebirdSQL/firebird
Releases · FirebirdSQL/firebird
Firebird 4.0.2
Improvements
- New built-in function
BLOB_APPEND(#6983) - Trace: provide performance statistics for DDL statement (#7208)
- Make it possible to avoid fbclient dependency in Pascal programs using firebird.pas (#7194)
- Ignore missing UDR libraries during restore (#7168)
- Update zlib to version 1.2.12 (#7161)
- Improve indexed lookup speed of strings when the last keys characters are part of collated contractions (#7093)
- Improve performance of
CURRENT_TIME(#7092) ON DISCONNECTtriggers are not executed during forced attachment shutdown (#7042)- Firebird port for Apple M1 architecture (#7041)
- Improve performance of
STARTING WITHwith insensitive collations (#7038) - Trace: provide ability to see
STATEMENT RESTARTevents (or their count) (#6730)
More details can be found in the CHANGELOG.
Firebird 3.0.10
What's new
- Make it possible to avoid fbclient dependency in Pascal programs using firebird.pas
- Update zlib to version 1.2.12
- Improve indexed lookup speed of strings when the last keys characters are part of collated contractions
- Faster execution of indexed
STARTING WITHwith UNICODE collation - 17 bugs fixed
Firebird 3.0.9
Firebird 4.0.1
Improvements
- Add IBatch::getInfo() method to the API (#6959)
- fb_info_protocol_version support (#6954)
- Add support of PKCS v.1.5 padding to RSA functions, needed for backward compatibility with old systems (#6929)
- Allow attribute DISABLE-COMPRESSIONS in UNICODE collations (#6915)
- Make it possible to create ICU-based collations with locales keywords (#6903)
- Faster indexed STARTING WITH execution with UNICODE collations (#6872)
- Use precise limit of salt length when signing messages and verifying the sign (#6810)
- Integer hex-literal support for INT128 (#6809)
More details can be found in the CHANGELOG.
Firebird 3.0.8
What's new
- Added database creation time to the output of ISQL's command SHOW DATABASE
- More efficient implementation of SUBSTRING for UTF8 character set
- Freeing a statement using DSQL_drop or DSQL_unprepare sends the free packet immediately
- Increased number of formats/versions of views from 255 to 32K
- 60 bugs fixed
Firebird 4.0.0
Improvements
- Rename functions RSA_SIGN and RSA_VERIFY (#6806)
- Add session time zone to system context (#6786)
- More efficient implementation of SUBSTRING for UTF8 character set (#6769)
- Add ability for a replication plug-in to refuse attachment (#6767)
- Freeing a statement using DSQL_drop or DSQL_unprepare should send free packet immediately (#6748)
- Provide time zone ID constants in public headers (#6715)
- RDB$GET_TRANSACTION_CN should work the same way in Super and Classic (#6253)
More details can be found in the CHANGELOG.
Firebird 4.0 Release Candidate 1
New features
- ALTER SESSION RESET command (CORE-5832)
- Virtual table RDB$CONFIG (CORE-3708)
- Report replica mode through isc_database_info, MON$DATABASE and SYSTEM context (CORE-6474)
- Ability to trace session management commands (CORE-6469)
- INT128 as explicit basic type for high precision numerics (CORE-6342)
More details can be found in the CHANGELOG.
Firebird 3.0.7
What's new
- Detach server from the security database when missing plug-in data structures cause an error
- Better diagnostic for the 'Missing security context' error
- Remove PIDFile/-pidfile option from Super(Server/Classic) systemd unit
- 16 bugs fixed
Firebird 3.0.6
What's new
- Better transaction control in ISQL
- Relocation support on MacOS
- Increased parsing speed of long queries
- Better performance when using SRP plugin
- 43 bugs fixed
Firebird 4.0 Beta 2
New features
- SET BIND OF type1 TO type2 (CORE-6287)
- SQL-level replication management (CORE-6285)
- Changed FLOAT to a SQL standard compliant FLOAT datatype (CORE-6109)
- Make it possible to start multiple transactions (possibly in different attachments) using the same initial transaction snapshot (CORE-6018)
- Add better transaction control to ISQL (CORE-4933)
- Lateral derived tables (CORE-3435)
More details can be found in the CHANGELOG.