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HQbird 2024 R2 introduces support for many databases on the same server

Free book "Detailed features of Firebird 5" is published. 119 pages of essential information about Firebird 5.

New update of HQBird v2024, minor improvements and support of group operations

We've identified an issue where the latest libpthread library versions are not compatible with Firebird 2.5 (including the latest available release of vanilla version 2.5.9.27139 and HQbird 2.5 till the version 2.5.9.27173). Fix for HQbird 2.5 is already available.

HQbird is advanced distribution of Firebird, with many improvements in the areas of performance, high availability, development, and more.

The release of Firebird 5 (and HQbird with Firebird 5) is closer and closer. To learn about new features, read the first 3 parts of detailed materials about Firebird 5

In October-November 2023, IBSurgeon with MQFS.com.br will be doing Firebird Tour events focused on performance.

Event "Launch of Firebird 5" took place 2023 June 17 - Palhoça/SC, in Portuguese

The free open source "IBSurgeon Full Text Search UDR" to perform full text search queries within SQL and PSQL

HQbird 2022 Update 6 introduces several bug fixes in mappings of security permissions for users

HQbird 2022 Update 4 is released

All our products are Not vulnerable to Log4j CVE

IBSurgeon releases FirstAID 7.5: a recovery tool to fix heavily corrupted Firebird and InterBase databases.

IBSurgeon is glad to announce the new version of HQbird 2022: advanced Firebird SQL distribution for enterprises, with development, monitoring, and recovery tools.

IBSurgeon is happy to present HQbird 2020, Update 7.

The new article "How Firebird Database Encryption Works" is based on the materials of the workshop "Database Encryption" at Firebird Conference 2019 in Berlin, Germany, presented by Alex Peshkoff, Firebird Project, and Alexey Kovyazin, IBSurgeon.

IBSurgeon releases a new version of Firebird Encryption Plugin Framework: the set of source files and ready-to-use compiled binaries to implement database encryption for Firebird databases.

IBSurgeon releases HQbird 2020, Update 5

IBSurgeon releases version 7 of FirstAID: recovery for Firebird and InterBase databases, with InterBase 2020 support.

We are pleased to announce HQbird 2020 Update 4.

HQbird 2020 Update 3: several minor fixes and improvements

FirstAID 6.0.7 Minor Update

HQbird 2020 Update 2

The minor update of HQbird 2020 introduces several useful features and important bug fixes

The new article is published: Short IBSurgeon's checklist for Firebird database performance. Please check these basic settings and parameters to ensure that Firebird is configured without obvious mistakes.

The new release of HQbird 2020 delivers significant performance improvements.

The practical guide on how to track update conflicts in Firebird

The article "Transactions in Firebird" is the introduction to the basics of Firebird transactions: ACID, isolation levels, updates conflicts and "true deadlock".

The new article describes how to convert Firebird 2.5 database into Firebird 3.0 with the stream backup-restore.

The collection of tips and tricks to improve Firebird database performance.

IBSurgeon is glad to announce the new version of FirstAID (6.0): an ultimate recovery tool for Firebird and InterBase

IBSurgeon is happy to announce the new release of HQbird – advanced Firebird distribution for enterprises, featuring native (high-performance and transactions friendly) master-slave replication, advanced performance monitoring, automated backups, and maintenance.

Firebird Performance Tour 2019 will take place in Moscow (November 29, 2018), Prague (December 4, 2018) and Bad Sassendorf, Germany (December 6, 2018).

We are glad to announce the general availability of HQbird 2018R2: the new version of an advanced Firebird distribution.

IBSurgeon is glad to announce the availability of the new version of Firebird Encryption Plugin Framework: the fast and easy way to add transparent and strong (AES256) encryption for Firebird databases.

The excerpt from "Migration Guide To Firebird 3" is devoted to testing applications for the compatibility, after the database migration, using HQbird Standard tool: FBScanner.

More and more users upgrade to Windows Server 2016 from old versions, and some of them have noticed that Windows Server 2016 works slower than previous versions, even on the same hardware with the same database.

HQbird 2018: new release of the advanced Firebird distribution

The first version of the first chapter of Firebird Developer Guide is available for preview.

The first 200 pages of the German version of Firebird 2.5 Language Reference are available now.

Firebird Project, IBSurgeon and IBPhoenix are happy to announce Firebird Tour 2017: a series of seminars around the globe, devoted to the performance optimization of Firebird databases. The speakers will be Vlad Khorsun and Dmitry Yemanov (Firebird Project), Dmitry Kuzmenko (IBSurgeon), Alexey Kovyazin (IBSurgeon) and Pavel Cizar (IBPhoenix).

Firebird Developers Day in Brazil took place July 29, 2017. Read report

At July 27 Alexey Kovyazin (IBSurgeon) will be speaking at Firebird Developers Day in Brazil. FDD2017 will take place in Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

IBSurgeon Firebird Encryption Plugin Framework is updated: now it is compatible with Firebird 3.0.2 and higher.

HQbird 2017R2 is a major upgrade of advanced Firebird distributive (versions 2.5 and 3.0) with high-availability, replication, optimization, monitoring and recovery tools.

Detailed list of differences between Firebird and InterBase

FirstAID 5.0 supports Firebird 3.0, InterBase XE7, and big databases (100Gb+).