Firebird ODBC driver Changelog

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