What's new

The following has been changed or fixed since Jaybird 5.0.7:

• Improvement: added authPlugins property on FBManager (#865)
• Improvement: increased default and maximum SQL info sizes used for retrieving statement information like columns, parameters and plan information (#868)
• Improvement: backported inline blob support (Firebird 5.0.3 and higher) from Jaybird 7 (#871)
• Improvement: The time zone mapping was updated (#875)

Jaybird 5 supports Firebird 2.5 and higher, on Java 8, Java 11, Java 17, Java 21, and Java 24 (support for Java 11 and higher using the Java 11 version of the driver).

Bug reports about undocumented changes in behavior are appreciated. Feedback can be sent to the Firebird-java Google Group or reported on the issue tracker https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/jaybird/issues.

See also the full Jaybird 5 release notes.

Maven

The release is also available on Maven(*):

<groupId>org.firebirdsql.jdbc</groupId>
<artifactId>jaybird</artifactId>
<version>5.0.8.java11</version>

* The version depends on your target Java version: 5.0.8.java11 for Java 11 and higher, or 5.0.8.java8 for Java 8.