What's New - ODBC Driver for Firebird

New features in ODBC Driver for Firebird 3.6

• Fixed connection timeout setting before opening connection
• Added support for Firebird 5
• Now passwords are stored in an encrypted form in the DSN record
• Added Read Only mode for connection
• Improved compatibility with ETL Informatica PowerCenter
• Improved compatibility with Altova Mapforce
• Improved compatibility with FileMaker Server for Linux and macOS

New features in ODBC Driver for Firebird 3.5

• Added support for setting SQL Dialect
• Improved compatibility with SSIS in Visual Studio
• Improved compatibility with 4D in macOS

New features in ODBC Driver for Firebird 3.4

• Added support for SQL_ATTR_MAX_ROWS attribute
• Improved compatibility with Visual Basic in Visual Studio

New features in ODBC Driver for Firebird 3.3

• Added support for macOS 13 Ventura
• Improved compatibility with Tableau Prep Builder
• Improved compatibility with Crystal Reports
• Reduced number of metadata calls

New features in ODBC Driver for Firebird 3.2

• Added support for Windows 11
• Added support for Firebird 4
• Improved compatibility with FICO Mosel
• Improved compatibility with FileMaker
• Improved compatibility with JMP on macOS
• Improved support for an ODBC installer on Windows 2000

New features in ODBC Driver for Firebird 3.1

• MSI installer for deploying through GPO is added

New features in ODBC Driver for Firebird 3.0

• Compatibility with macOS Big Sur is improved
• Compatibility with Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio is improved
• Minor performance improvements
• Compatibility with Power Pivot is improved
• Compatibility with Visual Basic is improve
• Compatibility with RStudio is improved
• Support for connection pooling is improved
• Improved compatibility with sandboxed applications for macOS
• Now ODBC driver activation does not require administrator privileges
• Now ODBC driver for macOS is distributed as a PKG package
• Now ODBC driver for Linux is distributed as DEB and RPM packages
• Possibility to force the ODBC 2.x behavior is added

New features in ODBC Driver for Firebird 2.4

• Possibility to return String Types as Ansi or Unicode is added
• Compatibility with MS Access is improved
• Compatibility with Omnis Studio is improved
• Compatibility with Power Pivot is improved
• Compatibility with DBeaver is improved

New features in ODBC Driver for Firebird 2.3

• Performance of batch operations is significantly improved

New features in ODBC Driver for Firebird 2.2

• Compatibility with SAS JMP is improved
• Compatibility with MS Power Query is improved
• OUTER JOIN macros in SQL queries are supported
• DateTime macros in SQL queries are supported
• Scalar function macros in SQL queries are supported
• The ForceUsingDefaultPort connection parameter is added

New features in ODBC Driver for Firebird 2.1

• Compatibility with MS Visual Studio
• Compatibility with MS FoxPro is improved
• Compatibility with MapInfo is improved
• Compatibility with Libre Office is improved
• Compatibility with Qlik is improved
• Compatibility with Delphi & C++Builder is improved
• MS Access linked tables support is improved

New features in ODBC Driver for Firebird 2.0

• Linux is supported
• macOS is supported
• Support for stored procedures and functions is improved
• Backward compatibility of SQLExecDirect with ODBC 2.x is improved
• Compatibility with MS Excel is improved
• Compatibility with ODBC 2.x is improved
• Bug with Trial expiration in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio is fixed

New features in ODBC Driver for Firebird 1.2

• Compatibility with Microsoft Visual Studio is improved
• Compatibility with Microsoft Office is improved
• Compatibility with Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio is improved
• Compatibility with Crystal Reports is improved
• Compatibility with ClikView is improved
• Compatibility with Microsoft Power BI Desktop is improved
• Compatibility with Microsoft Visual FoxPro is improved

New features in ODBC Driver for Firebird 1.1

• Performance is improved

New features in ODBC Driver for Firebird 1.0

• First release of ODBC Driver for Firebird
• Windows 32-bit is supported
• Windows 64-bit is supported