Firebird
Firebird server, client and tools
What’s new
Verified 5h ago### New features
- Add new setting `AllowUpdateOverwrite` that defines how `UPDATE` operation should handle the case when a record was updated by trigger ([#8957](https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/pull/8957))
- Add API method `Util::convert` ([#8761](https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/issues/8761))
### Improvements
- Add limit for max value of `-PARALLEL` switch value when restoring a database ([#8928](https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/issues/8928))
- Update Windows distributions with _zlib_ version 1.3.2 ([#8922](https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/issues/8922))
- Context variables clear/re-initialization support ([#8912](https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/issues/8912))
- 'invalid request BLR' puts actual error (and procedure where it happened) at the end where it is truncated by ISC API ([#8895](https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/issues/8895))
- Ensure sequences are replicated even if changed in de-facto read-only transactions ([#8858](https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/pull/8858))
- Early diagnostics for the improperly re-initialized replica ([#8767](https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/pull/8767))
- Allow `isc_tpb_read_cons
Full release notes →
- Add new setting `AllowUpdateOverwrite` that defines how `UPDATE` operation should handle the case when a record was updated by trigger ([#8957](https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/pull/8957))
- Add API method `Util::convert` ([#8761](https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/issues/8761))
### Improvements
- Add limit for max value of `-PARALLEL` switch value when restoring a database ([#8928](https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/issues/8928))
- Update Windows distributions with _zlib_ version 1.3.2 ([#8922](https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/issues/8922))
- Context variables clear/re-initialization support ([#8912](https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/issues/8912))
- 'invalid request BLR' puts actual error (and procedure where it happened) at the end where it is truncated by ISC API ([#8895](https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/issues/8895))
- Ensure sequences are replicated even if changed in de-facto read-only transactions ([#8858](https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/pull/8858))
- Early diagnostics for the improperly re-initialized replica ([#8767](https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/pull/8767))
- Allow `isc_tpb_read_cons
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Install with one command
Prefer a package manager? Paste this into Windows Terminal:
choco
choco install firebird -y
Platforms: Windows
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Which platforms does Firebird support?
Firebird is available for Windows.
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Who develops Firebird?
Firebird is developed by FirebirdSQL.
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