Thank you for your valuable feedback! I’ve received numerous emails with suggestions, questions, and descriptions of issues that Firebird users are encountering. I’ll be addressing these in a video meeting in the beginning of August (there are many questions!), where I’ll share our responses and discuss upcoming features. Stay tuned, and thank you for supporting Firebird!
As president of the Firebird Foundation, I'm reaching out to tap into the wealth of experience and knowledge within our user base. We're constantly striving to improve Firebird, and your feedback is crucial in guiding our efforts. I'd like to ask for your input on a critical question: What are the 3 biggest problems with Firebird that impact you?
We are happy to announce the release of Jaybird 5.0.5.
We've identified an issue where the latest libpthread library versions are not compatible with Firebird 2.5 (including the latest available release of vanilla version 2.5.9.27139). To prevent any impact on Firebird 2.5, please follow the guidance provided below. Please note that version 2.5 is discontinued and there will be no fix for it in vanilla version.
The Firebird Technical Task Group has wrapped up its meeting, and we're excited to share the roadmap for the upcoming version 6. There are so many features planned: schemas, JSON, tablespaces, new SQLs, and more.
April-June 2024 was pretyy intensive period: read the digest of news and events!
This article concludes our comprehensive overview of Firebird 5 features, with a focus on a groundbreaking addition: the SQL Profiler. This new tool significantly simplifies the process of identifying performance bottlenecks in complex stored procedures and pinpointing SQL code responsible for system slowdowns.
In order to make Firebird installation on Linux flawless and fast, we continue the effort to provide one-step Firebird installation scripts for all popular Linux distrinutions - now for Rocky Linux 8 and 9.
In this video, we explore the InlineSortThreshold parameter, a recent addition to the Firebird configuration that alters the execution plan from SORT to REFETCH. Additionally, we briefly examine the ORDER INDEX plan, and perform comparison of 3 sorting methods in Firebird.