The Firebird Project has discovered critical security issues in older versions of all supported releases. To avoid potential attacks, upgrade to the latest releases, they have the problem fixed.
Today is a special milestone: Firebird turns 25 (31 July 2000 → 31 July 2025). While we can’t host a physical celebration for everyone, we're bringing the party to you—via music, community, and shared memory. And we also bring you gifts! So read on...
Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 5.0.3, Firebird 4.0.6 and Firebird 3.0.13 sub-releases.
The latest issue of EmberWings – our official quarterly Firebird magazine – is here! The June 2025 issue (2025/2) has just been released for Firebird supporters, and it’s one of our most engaging issues yet.
Jaybird 6.0.2 and Jaybird 5.0.8 released with Firebird 5.0.3 inline blob support
This database comparison study analyzes storage efficiency between Firebird 5 and PostgreSQL 17 by creating identical tables with various data types (boolean, char, varchar, date, integer, numeric, float, time, timestamp) and populating them with one million rows each. The research compares space utilization across different data types, revealing that PostgreSQL stores integer types more efficiently (81 MB versus 99.63 MB in Firebird), while Firebird demonstrates better efficiency with character data types, particularly for larger field sizes like CHAR(200) (2604.25 MB versus 2728 MB in PostgreSQL), and floating-point numbers.
Video (in Italian) by Fabio Codebue about upcoming Firebird 6 and its features: Schemas, JSON and more.
If you have Windows on ARM, check out beta version of Firebird ODBC driver for ARM!
Ever wondered how to make Firebird talk to MySQL, PostgreSQL, or any other database through ODBC? Denis Simonov has crafted an excellent deep-dive into creating custom Provider plugins for Firebird that does exactly that. In this article you will find the coverage of implementation challenges encountered during the development of HQbird's MySQLEngine and ODBCEngine plugins, including architectural solutions for DBMS limitations.
我们很高兴看到越来越多的中国开发者发现 Firebird SQL！您对我们开源数据库日益增长的兴趣对我们意义重大。 我们希望听到您的声音 为了让 Firebird 更好地为您服务，我们希望得到您的反馈：