Jaybird 4.0.0-beta-2

IMPORTANT

This version is provided for testing purposes only. We'd appreciate your feedback, but we'd like to emphasize that this version is not intended for production.

What's new

Jaybird 4 is - compared to Jaybird 3 - an incremental release that builds on the foundations of Jaybird 3. The focus of this release has been on further improving JDBC support and adding support for the new data types and features of Firebird 4.

The main new features are:

• Wire encryption support (backported to Jaybird 3.0.4)
• Database encryption support (backported to Jaybird 3.0.4)
• Wire compression support
• Authentication plugin improvements
• Firebird 4 data type bind configuration support (since Jaybird 4.0.0-beta-2)
• Firebird 4 DECFLOAT support
• Firebird 4 extended numeric precision support
• Firebird 4 time zone support
• Firebird 4 statement timeout support (since Jaybird 4.0.0-beta-2)
• JDBC RowId support
• DatabaseMetaData getPseudoColumns implemented
• DatabaseMetaData getVersionColumns implemented
• DatabaseMetaData getFunctions implemented (since Jaybird 4.0.0-beta-2)
• DatabaseMetaData getFunctionColumns implemented (since Jaybird 4.0.0-beta-2)
• Improved JDBC function escape support
• New JDBC protocol prefix jdbc:firebird:
• URL encoding in query part of JDBC URL (backported to Jaybird 3.0.9)
• Generated keys support improvements
• Operation monitoring

Upgrading from Jaybird 3 to 4 should be simple, but please make sure to read Compatibility changes before using Jaybird 4. See also Upgrading from Jaybird 3 to Jaybird 4.

Bug reports about undocumented changes in behavior are appreciated. Feedback can be sent to the Firebird-java mailing list or reported on the issue tracker http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/JDBC.

See also the full Jaybird 4.0.0-beta-2 release notes.

Maven

The release is also available on maven(*):

<groupId>org.firebirdsql.jdbc</groupId>
<artifactId>jaybird</artifactId>
<version>4.0.0.javaXX-beta-2</version>

* The version depends on your target Java version: 4.0.0.java7-beta-2, 4.0.0.java8-beta-2 or 4.0.0.java11-beta-2.