New Firebird driver for Python - the firebird-driver package - and the extension package firebird-lib versions 1.0.0 were released.
Developer Days in Brazil go online and yield record donations for Firebird development
Firebird GBAK is a powerful command-line tool, included in every Firebird distribution, and one of the most frequently used, and often Firebird developers and administrators use it ineffectively or in a non-secure way. The article "Firebird Gbak Tips And Tricks" walks through the simplest gbak commands to the advanced options. It is written with the idea to answer the typical questions from Firebird users and provide ready-to-use optimized commands to perform backup and restore.
A new version of the Firebird PHP driver is available. This version supports boolean support. Precompiled binaries for PHP 7.3 and 7.4 are available at the download section.
Firebird 3.0.6 sub-release is available
Watch the first episode of the Developers.Pub series of interviews with Firebird Core developers. The idea is to let people know more about those guys and their life's history. The first guest was Dmitry Yemanov, chief of Firebird Development Team. The audio is in English, and there are subtitles in Portuguese.
Installing Firebird 3 on modern Linux versions: CentOS 8 and Ubuntu 19