This decision caused concern within the Firebird database project due to the assumption that users and Internet search engines would be confused by a database and a web browser both using the name Firebird. In April 2003, the Mozilla Organization announced a rename of its web browser from Phoenix to Firebird after a trademark dispute with Phoenix Technologies. Through the Google Summer of Code 2013 work has begun on integrating Firebird as a replacement for HSQLDB in LibreOffice. A major re-architecture of the code allowed total support to SMP machines when using the SuperServer version. The most recent stable version is Firebird 3.0, released 19 April 2016, with focus in performance and security. įirebird 2.5 introduced new features like improved multithreading, regular expression syntax and the ability to query remote databases. The previous stable release was version 2.1.6, which added new features including procedural triggers, recursive queries, and support for SQL:2003 MERGE statements. Firebird 2.0 was released on 12 November 2006, adding support for 64-bit architectures, tables nested in FROM clauses, and programmable lock timeouts in blocking transactions. Version 1.5 featured an improved query optimizer, SQL-92 conditional expressions, SQL:1999 savepoints and support for explicit locking.

On 23 February 2004, Firebird 1.5 was released, which was the first stable release of the new codebase. Work on porting the codebase from C to C++ began in 2000. Firebird 1.0 was released for Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X on 11 March 2002, with ports to Solaris, FreeBSD 4, HP-UX over the next two months. Within a week of the InterBase 6.0 source being released by Borland on 25 July 2000, the Firebird project was created on SourceForge. 6.1 Low-level Firebird Native API, Services API and embedded SQL.3.1 The Multi-Generational Architecture (MGA).

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