Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2025! And review of what happened in 2024
Digest of Firebird news in 2024
Firebird made great progress in 2024. The most important technical achievement was the release of Firebird 5.0, followed by several updates and new versions of database drivers. The community saw big changes too - the Firebird Foundation moved to its new home in the Czech Republic, and we launched our first certification program. Users got many new learning resources, including a free book about Firebird 5, helpful articles, videos, and the new EmberWings magazine.
The Firebird team sends warm holiday wishes and New Year greetings to all users. We want to say a special thank you to our Sponsors, Partners, and Associates - your support makes Firebird development possible and keeps our project growing stronger!
Here's what happened with Firebird database in 2024. Below you will find a complete list of releases, community events, and important updates:
December 2024
Dec 27, 2024 - Jaybird 6.0.0 released
Dec 18, 2024 - December Issue of EmberWings is Here!
Dec 02, 2024 - First Certification Exam Completed!
November 2024
Nov 29, 2024 - Firebird Advent Calendar
Nov 25, 2024 - Performance webinar invitations sent!
Nov 05, 2024 - Video: Answers to 3 top challenges with Firebird, Part1
Nov 04, 2024 - Video: The hidden problem of Firebird setup: Firebird clients' versions
October 2024
Oct 30, 2024 - First Certification Training+Exam will take place in Sao Paulo, Nov 22
Oct 30, 2024 - Firebird Users in Europe Should Visit ITDevCon 2024!
Oct 18, 2024 - Firebird Performance Webinar announce
September 2024
Sep 30, 2024 - New Issue of EmberWings Magazine on Firebird Released
Sep 13, 2024 - Announcing the Official Firebird Certification Program
Sep 12, 2024 - PHP 8.4 Improvements when working with modern Firebird versions
Sep 11, 2024 - Official Firebird Docker Images
Sep 10, 2024 - Firebird ODBC driver 3.0 release
Sep 09, 2024 - Webinar "Questions and Answers" about Firebird migration
Sep 06, 2024 - Video "Resolving problems during migration, part 3 of 4"
Sep 05, 2024 - Video "Problems during the migration", Part 2 of 4
Sep 04, 2024 - Video "The fastest way to migrate to Firebird 5", part 1 of 4
Sep 04, 2024 - Annual General Meeting of Firebird Foundation: Sep 16, 2024
Sep 03, 2024 - Rust Firebird Client updated to v0.25 with a few features and fixes
August 2024
Aug 29, 2024 - Free book "Detailed features of Firebird 5" is published
Aug 28, 2024 - Update of 1-step installations scripts for Linux
Aug 27, 2024 - Firebird 5.0 Performance Tests
Aug 24, 2024 - Django Firebird driver update for Django 5.0
Aug 24, 2024 - New release of Firebird driver for Python V1.10.6
Aug 21, 2024 - Firebird 5.0.1 Improvements in Optimizer
Aug 08, 2024 - Firebird 4.0.5 and 3.0.12 sub-releases are available
Aug 02, 2024 - Firebird 5.0.1 minor release is available
July 2024
Jul 25, 2024 - Answers and Discussion on "Top 3 Challenges With Firebird"
Jul 15, 2024 - Seeking Your Input: Top 3 Challenges with Firebird
June 2024
Jun 21, 2024 - New issue of EmberWings Magazine about Firebird
Jun 21, 2024 - Detailed New Features Of Firebird 5, Part 6: Profiling
Jun 14, 2024 - Jaybird 5.0.5 released
Jun 04, 2024 - Firebird Configuration, episode 3: InlineSortThreshold and details of sortings
May 2024
May 31, 2024 - To Swap or Not To Swap? Some theory and practical examples from production servers.
May 29, 2024 - Videos about Firebird Configuration: Episode 2, TempCacheLimit
May 27, 2024 - 1-step Linux installation scripts for Firebird
May 23, 2024 - New version of IBSurgeon Full Text UDR is released
May 21, 2024 - Perl extension DBD::Firebird version 1.38 is released
May 21, 2024 - Firebird SQL Client Library for Kotlin Multiplatform
May 11, 2024 - Firebird Camp in Brazil
May 06, 2024 - Practical examples of migration to Firebird 5: databases 1.5Tb and 810Gb
April 2024
March 2024
Mar 29, 2024 - The Ballad for the Firebird Developers
Mar 25, 2024 - EmberWings Magazine about Firebird
Mar 20, 2024 - Firebird 6 Roadmap is Published!
Mar 18, 2024 - New video: the biggest configuration error in Firebird SQL
Mar 13, 2024 - Configuration Calculator for Firebird was Updated To Support Firebird 5
Mar 12, 2024 - Free Practical Migration Guide to Firebird 5.0
Mar 10, 2024 - Jaybird 5.0.4 released
February 2024
Feb 22, 2024 - Firebird Technical Task Group Meeting
Feb 21, 2024 - Beta version 3.0.0.8 of Firebird ODBC
Feb 15, 2024 - New Features Of Firebird 5, Part 5: Better compression, cache of compiled statements, and more
Feb 09, 2024 - New Features of Firebird 5, Part 4: Parallel backup, restore, sweep, and index creation
Feb 07, 2024 - Why now is the best time to become a sponsor of Firebird Foundation?
January 2024
Jan 30, 2024 - Does Firebird 5 run on old Windows?
Jan 24, 2024 - Parallel data reading in Firebird
Jan 11, 2024 - Firebird 5.0 is released