Digest of Firebird news for Q3 2024: new minor releases of Firebird, ODBC, Python, Rust drivers, book about Firebird 5, videos about migration, new issue of EmberWings, and more!
The live webinar discussing questions related to the migration to Firebird 5 will take place today, September 9, on YouTube at 15:00 CET.
The part 3 of videos devoted to the migration to Firebird 5 and announce of webinar with questions and answers about migration.
In this video, Alexey Kovyazin, President of Firebird Foundation, and Edson Gregorio, CEO of MQFS, discuss possible problems during the migration.There will be 4 episodes in the season devoted to migration: 3 videos and webinar with live questions and answers (to be announced).
In the 1st part of series devoted to the migration we discuss the fastest way to migrate database. to Firebird 5. There will be 4 episodes in the season devoted to migration: 3 videos and webinar with live questions and answers (to be announced). Stay tuned!
The free book "Detailed features of Firebird 5" (in English) is written by D.Simonov and edited by A.Kovyazin. The book covers all new feautures of Firebird 5 (including 5.0.1).
Update of 1-step Firebird installation scripts for Linux. Now they support CentOS (7, 8, 9), Debian (11, 12), Oracle Linux (8, 9), RockyLinux (8, 9), Ubuntu (22, 24).
We have made performance tests and confirmed that Firebird 5.0 delivers impressive performance gains over previous versions. Recent tests comparing it to versions 4.0, 3.0, and 2.5 reveal significant speed improvements across various operations. Database administrators and developers can expect noticeable speed boosts when upgrading to version 5.0. See presentation and video for more details.
