We are happy to announce the release of Jaybird 6.0.2. This release provides support for upcoming Firebird 5.0.3 inline blobs, and some other improvements.

For more information on inline blobs, for Firebird 5.0.3 and higher, see also New Article: Data access methods used in Firebird.

The following was fixed or changed since Jaybird 6.0.1:

• Improvement: added authPlugins property on FBManager (#866)
• Improvement: increased default and maximum SQL info sizes used for retrieving statement information like columns, parameters and plan information (#869)
• Improvement: backported inline blob support (Firebird 5.0.3 and higher) from Jaybird 7 (#870)
• Improvement: The time zone mapping was updated (#874)

Bug reports about undocumented changes in behavior are appreciated. Feedback can be sent to Firebird-java or reported on the issue tracker https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/jaybird/issues.

Jaybird 6 supports Firebird 3.0 and higher, on Java 17, Java 21, and Java 24.

See also:

• Jaybird 6 release notes
• Jaybird downloads
• Instructions for Maven