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Documentation

The V1.5 release of Firebird represents a major upgrade to the V1.0 database engine, which has been developed by an independent team of voluntary developers from the original InterBase source code that was released by Borland under the InterBase Public License on 25th July 2000.

Development on the Firebird 2 codebase began early on during the Firebird V1.0 development process, with the porting of the Firebird 1.0 C code to C++ and the first major steps at code clean up. Firebird V1.5 is the first release of the Firebird 2 codebase and represents a significant milestone for the developers and the whole Firebird project.

There are many new features and bugs fixed and the list of major changes beyond the original V1.0 version is quite long. Please read all the Release Notes for relevant information.

Release Notes

• Complete Release Notes for 1.5.x (English) (.pdf)

Other

• Firebird Factsheet (.pdf)
• Firebird Factsheet (.html)
• Firebird Factsheet in Portuguese (.html)
• Whats New in Firebird V1.5 (.pdf)
• Whats New in Firebird V1.5 (.html)
• Part of Sean Leyne's presentation (.pdf) to the Toronto Delphi Users Group that focuses on Firebird V1.5.
  • English.
  • Japanese.
• The embedded server is a fully functional server linked as a dynamic library (fbembed.dll). It has exactly the same features as the usual server and exports the standard Firebird API entrypoints.
• Firebird Superserver has a link-time backward compatibility issue with the NPTL (Native POSIX Thread Library) that may cause it to be unstable on Linux distributions that enable the NPTL in the GNU C library, e.g. Red Hat 9, Mandrake 10 and Fedora Core. The NPTL builds of Superserver should solve these problems.

Useful Tools and Information

• 9th Apr 2003 Firebird Configuration Manager (.zip) (229k)
  Tool for manipulating the Firebird V1.5 Configuration file.
• 2nd Aug 2003 Tracking Down Crashes on Win32 Systems By Nickolay Samatov

V1.5.6 Release

Downloads

Windows 32bit

• 8th Oct 2009 SuperServer and Classic for Windows (.exe) (3.0mb)
• 8th Oct 2009 SuperServer and Classic for Windows (.zip) (4.0mb)
• 8th Oct 2009 Windows Debug Build (.exe) (4.0mb)
• 8th Oct 2009 Windows Debug Build (.zip) (3.0mb)
• 8th Oct 2009 Embedded Server for Windows (.zip) (2.0mb)
• 8th Oct 2009 Embedded Server Windows Debug Build (.zip) (3.0mb)

Classic Server Linux i686

• 8th Oct 2009 Classic for Linux (.rpm) (4.0mb)
• 8th Oct 2009 Classic for Linux (.tar.gz) (4.0mb)
• 8th Oct 2009 Classic Debug Build for Linux (.tar.gz) (16.0mb)

SuperServer for Linux i686 (32bit) (NPTL)

DO NOT USE IF YOUR KERNEL DOES NOT SUPPORT NPTL THREADING !! To test, run the command "getconf GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION". If it doesn't return something like "NPTL 2.n.n" but something like "linuxthreads-0.nn" then you must use the kit for the old threading model.

• 8th Oct 2009 SuperServer for Linux (.rpm) (4.0mb)
• 8th Oct 2009 SuperServer for Linux (.tar.gz) (4.0mb)
• 8th Oct 2009 SuperServer Debug Build for Linux (.tar.gz) (16.0mb)

SuperServer for Linux i686 (32bit) (Old Threading Library - Non NPTL)

• 8th Oct 2009 SuperServer for Linux (.rpm) (4.0mb)
• 8th Oct 2009 SuperServer for Linux (.tar.gz) (4.0mb)
• 8th Oct 2009 SuperServer Debug Build for Linux (.tar.gz) (16.0mb)

MacOSX

• 8th Oct 2009 Classic for MacOSX (Intel x86) (.pkg.zip) (6.0mb)
• 8th Oct 2009 SuperServer for MacOSX (Intel x86) (.pkg.zip) (6.0mb)
• 8th Oct 2009 Classic for MacOSX (PowerPC) (.pkg.zip) (5.0mb)
• 8th Oct 2009 SuperServer for MacOSX (PowerPC) (.pkg.zip) (5.0mb)

Other 1.5.x Builds