Download Firebird 1.5 RC 5

Databases are often used to store large amounts of data. Since these are easier to maintain and approach than a simple text document in which the data is recorded. Well-known names are of course Oracle with their Oracle 9i database, IBM with their DB2 database and Microsoft with SQL Server.

A fairly new database is Firebird which has its origin in the InterBase database of Inprise Corp (today Borland Software Corp), the history of InterBase and Firebird is here to read. This relational database supports various operating systems on which it can be installed, such as Linux and Windows, among others, making it widely deployed.

They are busy developing version 1.5 and have therefore released version 1.5 release candidate 5. The release notes let us know the following:

The development of Firebird 1.5 release is in final development stage! The Release Candidate means that we’re “almost there”, and we turned our focus to remaining known issues and rough edges, final testing and bug squashing. We made a lot of progress with it thanks to your feedback.

The fifth Release Candidate should become the final release, so we are eager to hear about your experience (good or bad) with it. Please send your reports to the Firebird Developers mailing list (or newsgroup). Don’t forget that your feedback will help us to move forward faster!

Background information:
The 1.5 release is the first version based on new, cleaned and improved C++ source code tree with many new features and bugs fixed. Complete list of major changes beyond the 1.0 version is quite long, and you can read the up-to-date version here†

Your Firebird Development Team[break] Downloads:
Windows 32-bit
Linux x86 RPM
Linux x86 tarball