Firebird 2.0 and the latest production release 2.1 have been great releases with a lot of new features. For example, I could not live without monitoring tables, database triggers, common table expressions (CTE) for querying recursive structures, re-worked indexing including function-based indices, and and and ... anymore.

Now, beside the already available snapshot builds, the Firebird project made Firebird 2.5 Alpha 1 available for testing. V2.5 will be a release that introduces the new architecture that will progress into Firebird 3.0 providing full support for fine-grained multi-threading and SMP.

The downloads are available here.


Thomas