ODBC Driver for Firebird Revision History

4.1.0 16-Apr-26

Added the FloatAsSingle connection option
Added the WireCompression connection option
Added the UseReadConsistency connection option
Added the ConnectionConfigOverrides connection option
Improved compatibility with Attunity Qlik Replicate
Improved compatibility with MS Access
Improved compatibility with Linked Server in MSSMS
Improved compatibility with the PDO_ODBC PHP extension
Improved compatibility with Node.js
Improved work with INT128 fields
Improved work with DECFLOAT16 and DECFLOAT34 fields
Fixed an issue with parsing a connection string when its value contained a sequence of SQL comment characters

4.0.0 10-Nov-25

Added a graphical interface for configuring the driver on macOS and Linux
Added support for URL-style connection strings that use inet4 and inet6 protocols
Improved compatibility with DBeaver
Improved compatibility with FileMaker
Improved compatibility with FileMaker Pro
Improved compatibility with SSIS in Visual Studio
Improved compatibility with Node.js
Improved compatibility with Tableau
Improved compatibility with Vectorworks
Fixed an issue that caused incorrect connection string parsing on macOS
Resolved a problem that caused incorrect data retrieval for the COLUMN_DEF field in SQLColumns

3.6.3 14-Apr-25

Improved compatibility with Microsoft Query
Fixed an issue with editing File DSN

3.6.2 12-Nov-24

Fixed bug with re-activation ODBC driver via another Windows user

3.6.1 28-Mar-24

Fixed the issue when establishing a connection with a connection string that contains unsupported parameters

3.6.0 14-Mar-24

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

3.5.1 03-Oct-23

Fixed bug with driver license validation for Linked Server in MSSMS

3.5.0 17-Aug-23

Added support for setting SQL Dialect
Improved compatibility with SSIS in Visual Studio
Improved compatibility with 4D in macOS
Fixed bug with getting data in DBeaver
Fixed Windows XP installation bug

3.4.0 15-May-23

Added support for SQL_ATTR_MAX_ROWS attribute
Improved compatibility with Linked Server in MSSMS
Improved compatibility with Visual Basic in Visual Studio
Improved compatibility with MS Access
Fixed bug that caused the "error_name" error in BDE SQL Explorer
Fixed bug that caused the "-7748" error in MS Access when using Use Unicode
Fixed bug with statements that contain case sensitive identifiers in PowerBI

3.3.0 17-Nov-22

Added support for macOS 13 Ventura
Improved compatibility with Tableau Prep Builder
Improved compatibility with Crystal Reports
Reduced number of metadata calls
Fixed bug with the error "-7748" in MS Access when using NUMERIC fields
Fixed bug when a connection string parameter value contains a single quote
Fixed an issue with adding DSN in PowerShell
Fixed an issue with rows deleting

3.2.1 05-Jan-22

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
Fixed an issue with updating date and time fields in MS Access
Fixed the "Invalid transaction state" error

3.1.1 08-Jul-21

MSI installer for deploying through GPO is added

3.0.5 25-May-21

Compatibility with macOS Big Sur is improved
Compatibility with Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio is improved
Bug with modifying data using the Linked Server is fixed

3.0.4 07-Dec-20

Minor performance improvements

3.0.3 08-Apr-20

Compatibility with Power Pivot is improved
Compatibility with Visual Basic is improved
Compatibility with RStudio is improved
Bug with getting the "Implementation limit exceeded block size exceeds implementation restriction" error is fixed
Bug with fetching by Bookmark is fixed
Bug with modifying data using SQLSetPos is fixed

3.0.2 04-Oct-19

Support for connection pooling is improved
Improved compatibility with sandboxed applications for macOS
Now ODBC driver activation does not require administrator privileges

3.0.1 08-Jan-19

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

2.4.9 16-Jul-18

Possibility to show used connection string in the connection dialog is added

2.4.8 14-Jun-18

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

2.3.7 26-Feb-18

Performance of batch operations is significantly improved

2.2.6 23-Oct-17

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
Several bugs when working with Firebird 3 are fixed

2.1.5 22-Jun-17

Compatibility with Adobe ColdFusion is improved
Several issues with data modification in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio are resolved
Now "." is a decimal separator for numbers with floating point by default

2.1.4 29-Nov-16

Compatibility with Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is improved

2.1.3 26-Oct-16

Compatibility with MS Visual Studio is improved
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
Compatibility with MS Access is improved
Array data type support is improved

2.0.2 05-Apr-16

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

2.0.1 15-Mar-16

Linux is supported
macOS is supported
Support for stored procedures and functions is improved
Backward compatibility of SQLExecDirect with ODBC 2.x is improved

1.2.4 06-Jan-16

Compatibility with Microsoft Power BI Desktop is improved
Compatibility with Microsoft Visual FoxPro is improved

1.2.3 06-Nov-15

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

1.1.2 16-Jul-15

Performance is improved
Compatibility with Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 for Web is improved
Bug with access violation when using ADO is fixed
Bug with calling the same SQL statement for several times is fixed

1.0.1 20-May-15

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