What's new in Firebird ODBC driver 3.6.1
Mar 28, 2024
- Fixed the issue when establishing a connection with a connection string that contains unsupported parameters
New in Firebird ODBC driver 3.6.0 (Mar 14, 2024)
- 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 in Firebird ODBC driver 3.5.1 (Oct 4, 2023)
- Fixed bug with driver license validation for Linked Server in MSSMS
New in Firebird ODBC driver 3.5.0 (Aug 18, 2023)
- 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
New in Firebird ODBC driver 3.4.0 (May 17, 2023)
- 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
New in Firebird ODBC driver 3.3.0 (Nov 18, 2022)
- 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
New in Firebird ODBC driver 3.2.1 (Jan 5, 2022)
- Added support for Windows 11
- 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
New in Firebird ODBC driver 3.1.1 (Jul 12, 2021)
- MSI installer for deploying through GPO is added
New in Firebird ODBC driver 3.0.5 (May 26, 2021)
- 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
New in Firebird ODBC driver 3.0.4 (Dec 9, 2020)
- Minor performance improvements
New in Firebird ODBC driver 3.0.3 (Apr 8, 2020)
- 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
New in Firebird ODBC driver 3.0.2 (Oct 7, 2019)
- Support for connection pooling is improved
- Now ODBC driver activation does not require administrator privileges
New in Firebird ODBC driver 3.0.1 (Jan 9, 2019)
- 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 in Firebird ODBC driver 2.4.9 (Jul 17, 2018)
- Possibility to show used connection string in the connection dialog is added
New in Firebird ODBC driver 2.4.8 (Jun 15, 2018)
- 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
New in Firebird ODBC driver 2.3.7 (Feb 27, 2018)
- Performance of batch operations is significantly improved
New in Firebird ODBC driver 2.2.6 (Oct 24, 2017)
- 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
New in Firebird ODBC driver 2.1.5 (Jun 22, 2017)
- 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
New in Firebird ODBC driver 2.1.4 (Dec 7, 2016)
- Compatibility with Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is improved
New in Firebird ODBC driver 2.1.3 (Dec 7, 2016)
- 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
- Compatibility with MS Access is improved
- Array data type support is improved
New in Firebird ODBC driver 2.0.2 (Dec 7, 2016)
- 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 in Firebird ODBC driver 2.0.1 (Mar 23, 2016)
- Support for stored procedures and functions is improved
- Backward compatibility of SQLExecDirect with ODBC 2.x is improved
New in Firebird ODBC driver 1.2.4 (Jan 9, 2016)
- Compatibility with Microsoft Power BI Desktop is improved
- Compatibility with Microsoft Visual FoxPro is improved
New in Firebird ODBC driver 1.2.3 (Nov 21, 2015)
- 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