Plan for June: 3.0.10, 4.0.3, 5.0 Beta 1

Parallel features (backup-restore-sweep. up to 10 times faster than standard) which are available in HQbird v3.0 and 4.0, will be available in Firebird 5. https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/commit/fa90269460b48f7d0881bfc60687d839c36d61ae

Weekly newsletter of Firebird Database - Issue #24 https://www.getrevue.co/profile/firebirdsql/issues/weekly-newsletter-of-firebird-database-issue-24-1156240

Hello All. IBSurgeon has released free open source Full Text Search UDR for Firebird 3 and 4, on the basis of Lucene engine. Download, read docs, try, enjoy! https://github.com/IBSurgeon/lucene_udr Don;t forget to put star for the repository on GitHub!

The 1st webinar abou FTS will be in Portuguese

Pavel Zotov (Firebird QA), Alexey Kovyazin (IBSurgeon) and Dmitry Yemanov (Firebird Core) are in rare live meeting, discussing how to implement radical optimization inprovements to Firebird SQLs

Weekly newsletter of Firebird Database - Issue #25 https://www.getrevue.co/profile/firebirdsql/issues/weekly-newsletter-of-firebird-database-issue-25-1236576

IBSurgeon Full Text Search UDR 1.1 released
https://github.com/IBSurgeon/lucene_udr
What's new:

- a separate analyzer for the English language with stemming (Porter Stemming), previously the analyzer completely coincided with the StandardAnalizer;
- added Snowball analyzers;
- added stored procedure FTS$ANALYZE for splitting text into terms according to the specified analyzer.

Firebird 4.0.2 is coming very soon

In the article "How to install Firebird 3.0 and 4.0 on Linux" you can find the installation instruction for Firebird versions 3 and 4 on the popular Linux versions: CentOS 7, Oracle Linux 7/8, Debian 9/10, Ubuntu18/20, and OpenSUSE15.0.

https://ib-aid.com/en/articles/how-to-install-firebird-3-0-and-4-0-on-linux

Firebird Developers Day in Brazil will take place October 8, in Piracicaba https://firebirdsql.org/en/news/19th-firebird-developers-day-fdd-in-brazil/

In this article we will describe the types of Firebird internal and temp files, and also consider how they are stored and managed through configuration parameters and environment variable of OS. https://ib-aid.com/articles/firebirdsql-internal-files-temporary-files-and-environment-variables

Accessing Firebird With Diesel ORM and Rust https://medium.com/better-programming/diesel-firebird-en-a4d00e793e1d

Ruby Firebird Extension Library Update to 0.9.3 https://rubygems.org/gems/fb/versions/0.9.3

New PHP driver pre-release for PHP 8.1.x https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/php-firebird/releases/tag/v3.0.0

New version of RedExpert 2022.09 is available. https://www.firebirdnews.org/redexpert-2022-09-has-been-released/

New release of Firebird base package for Python V1.4.1 is available for download https://pypi.org/project/firebird-base/1.4.1/

Firebird for SQLAlchemy 0.7.6 is released https://pypi.org/project/sqlalchemy-firebird/0.7.6/

New release of Firebird driver for Python V1.5.2 is available for download.
https://pypi.org/project/firebird-driver/#history

Minor fixes for this subrelease : documentation docset releases and code optimizations

https://firebird-driver.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html