History
Within a week of the InterBase 6.0 source being released by Borland on 25 July 2000, the Firebird project was created on SourceForge. Firebird 1.0 was released for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X on 11 March 2002, with ports to Solaris, FreeBSD 4, HP-UX following over the next two months.
Work on porting the codebase from C to C++ began in 2000. On 23 February 2004, Firebird 1.5 was released, which was the first stable release of the new codebase. Version 1.5 featured an improved query optimizer, SQL-92 conditional expressions, SQL:1999 savepoints and support for explicit locking. 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.
The previous stable release was version 2.1.4, which added new features including procedural triggers, recursive queries, and support for SQL:2003 MERGE statements.
Firebird 2.5.2 is the current stable version. New features included improved multithreading, regular expression syntax and the ability to query remote databases.
The planned 3.0 release is expected to support stored procedures in languages such as Java and C++, and SQL window functions that restrict query results. An alpha version is expected to be delivered in the third quarter of 2012.
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