What's new

The following has been changed or fixed since Jaybird 5.0.2:

Improvement: Do not reject attempts to read blob id 0 — backported from Jaybird 6 (#765)
Previously, Jaybird rejected attempts to read blobs with blob id 0 (not on all code paths, for some only when assertions are enabled). Formally, blob id 0 is not a valid blob id, but in practice they can occur (e.g. due to bugs, or access components/drivers explicitly setting a blob column to id 0). Other drivers and tools simply send the requests for blob id 0 to the server, which then treats it as an empty blob. For consistency, we decided to let Jaybird handle it the same.
Fixed: on CHAR fields, a too short value could be returned if the string contained one or more codepoints represented by surrogate pairs and the string length in char exceeded the maximum string length — backported from Jaybird 6 (#770)
We now truncate the returned string if the codepoint count exceeds the maximum string length.
Fixed: CallableStatement.getXXX(String) could return value from wrong column — backported from Jaybird 6 (#772)
Updated: error messages updated from Firebird 5.0.0.1272

Bug reports about undocumented changes in behavior are appreciated. Feedback can be sent to the Firebird-java Google Group or reported on the issue tracker https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/jaybird/issues.

Maven

The release is also available on maven(*):

<groupId>org.firebirdsql.jdbc</groupId>
<artifactId>jaybird</artifactId>
<version>5.0.3.java11</version>

* The version depends on your target Java version: 5.0.3.java11 (for Java 11 and higher), or 5.0.3.java8