Firebird 3.0.1

What's new

• Allowed implicit conversion between boolean and string
• Return nonzero result code when restore fails on activating and creating deferred user index
• Added a switch to build linux binaries with built-in libtommath
• Provided location context (line/column numbers) for runtime errors raised inside EXECUTE BLOCK
• Allowed to enforce IPv4 or IPv6 in URL-like connection strings
• Enabled nested keys in plugin configuration
• Allowed statement 'CREATE OR ALTER user sysdba password ...' to initialize empty security3.fdb as 'CREATE USER ...'
• 58 bugs fixed

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Firebird 2.5.6

What's new

• Return nonzero result code when restore fails on activating and creating deferred user index
• Provide location context (line/column numbers) for runtime errors raised inside EXECUTE BLOCK
• 32 bugs fixed

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Firebird 3.0.0

Key features

• Revised architecture, including new authentication and configuration subsystems
• Scalable multi-threaded engine with the shared page cache
• New ODS (version 12) with new system and monitoring tables
• External (Java, C++, etc) stored procedures/triggers/functions
• Security enhancements
• Various SQL extensions

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