Firebird 2.5.1 (sub-release) is available

Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 2.5.1 - a minor release of the award-winning relational database management system. This sub-release introduces several bug fixes and many important improvements  - for example, performance improvements during a database restore, the ability to write to global temporary tables in read-only databases, etc. 

For the full list of changes please refer to the Release Notes, Chapter 2 "New in Firebird 2.5". 

Firebird 2.5.1 has 100% compatible on-disk structure with Firebird 2.5.0, so it is recommended to migrate to 2.5.1 as soon as possible. To download Firebird 2.5.1, please visit the download section at the official web-site: http://firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-2-5-1/

FBScanner 2.6

We are proud to announce the new version of FBScanner, our tool to solve all types of performance problems with Firebird.

Slowdowns, disconnects and networks errors, transactions' issues and ineffective SQLs - FBScanner can help developer or IT Pro to find the reasons and solve these problems.

New version of FBScanner introduces significant increasing of SQLs processing, new logging approach to database with one-click log creation, real time configuration (restart of not required).

Now it also has full support of Firebird 2.5 (including SuperClassic architecture).

For administrators FBScanner 2.6 offers additional security options:

• ability to restrict number of connections
• white and black lists of databases
• white and black lists of IPs.

Please download demo version of FBScanner 2.6 or read detailed description and see presentation of FBScanner features.

Here is short presentation regarding main FBScanner features and usage scenarios:

FBScanner: IBSurgeon's tool to solve all types of performance problems with Firebird

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