New versions of three Firebird Python packages were released today: The main changes are summarized below. firebird-base 2.0.4 firebird-driver 2.1.0 firebird-lib 2.1.0 All three packages now advertise Python 3.14 and 3.15 support. The new...

We are happy to announce the release of Jaybird 6.0.7, providing bug fixes. Jaybird is the Firebird JDBC driver. Changes The following was fixed or changed in Jaybird 6.0.7: Bug reports about undocumented changes in behavior are appreciated....

The focus is on a large-scale update to the ER diagram editor, as well as targeted improvements to the interface, profiler, and overall stability. New features in the ER diagram editor: ?? Support for views, global temporary, and system tables ??...

We're pleased to announce that the September 2026 issue of EmberWings (2026/3) is now available. This issue considers a familiar professional hazard: a system, concept, or answer can look known just enough to discourage another question. That is...

IBPhoenix is pleased to announce the release of PhoenixVault - the secure, embedded database engine powered by Firebird. PhoenixVault combines Firebird 5 Embedded with built-in database encryption, licensing and streamlined deployment. The complete...

This update makes working with databases more comfortable and stable. We have improved system integration and fixed visual issues that interfered with work. Note that the key used to apply autocompletion has changed from Enter to Tab, but you can...

FBPC Performance Comparer for Firebird 1.1 is here with major improvements throughout the comparison workflow. The tool imports SQL commands recorded by the Firebird Trace API and runs them against two different environments, making it easier to...

We are happy to announce the release of Jaybird 6.0.6 and Jaybird 5.0.13, providing bug fixes. Jaybird is the Firebird JDBC driver. Changes The following was fixed or changed in Jaybird 6.0.6: The following was fixed or changed in Jaybird 5.0.13:...

Electric Firebird (mariuz/electric-firebird on GitHub) compiles the Firebird database engine to WebAssembly, following the same approach PGlite took for PostgreSQL. The goal is to let Firebird run both server-side (Node.js) and fully client-side in...

Firebird’s client library, libfbclient / fbclient.dll, has always been distributed exclusively as a shared library. PR #9104 by Adriano dos Santos Fernandes, merged into the Firebird source tree on July 24, 2026, changes that: it introduces an ...

Correction (added 9 August 2026): the section below headed “A synchronous replica that dies hangs commits” is wrong. Dmitry Sibiryakov pointed this out on firebird-general, and the source confirms it. In...

MWA Software has published two bug-fix releases of IBX for Lazarus, the Lazarus components for accessing Firebird databases. 2.7.11 (2 June) fixes field-to-column mapping when a SELECT uses aggregate or concatenation functions without an explicit...

The pure-JavaScript node-firebird driver for Node.js shipped eight releases in under a week (v2.6.0 – v2.14.0), completing its entire roadmap and closing all 47 open issues — some dating back to 2015. Highlights for Firebird users:...

We are excited to announce the release of cl-firebird v1.0.0 — a pure Common Lisp database driver for Firebird 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0+. Featuring full 1:1 feature parity with node-firebird, this release brings 12-factor connection URIs,...

FBSimCity, the explorable isometric city of Firebird internals, is at v0.4.0. This release adds a whole backup yard, built around what gbak and nbackup actually do. gbak: the backup that pins your OIT gbak takes a logical backup online: it attaches...