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JayBird - Java Driver for Firebird

The JayBird JCA/JDBC driver is distributed free of charge under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). Text of the license can be obtained here.

Jaybird 5.0.1

Jaybird 5 is - from a JDBC perspective - an incremental change from Jaybird 4. However, internally, Jaybird underwent some major changes, the biggest was the removal of JCA (Java Connector Architecture) support.

The main new features are

Java 7 support dropped

Java Connector Architecture (JCA) support removed

ChaCha wire protocol encryption support (Java 11 and higher only)

Changes to properties

Unification of database and service addressing

Changes to JDBC URL syntax

Removal of LOCAL protocol implementation

Stream blobs are now the default

New parser for generated keys handling (back-ported to Jaybird 4.0.8)

Firebird 4.0 server-side batch updates

Firebird 5.0 multi-row RETURNING support

Firebird Embedded locator service provider (experimental)

Table statistics of a connection (experimental)

Upgrading from Jaybird 4 to 5 should be simple, but please make sure to read Compatibility changes before using Jaybird 5. See also Upgrading from Jaybird 4 to Jaybird 5.

Release Notes

The release is also available on maven(*):

<groupId>org.firebirdsql.jdbc</groupId>
<artifactId>jaybird</artifactId>
<version>5.0.1.java11</version>

The version depends on your target Java version: 5.0.1.java11 (for Java 11 and higher), or 5.0.1.java8

JayBird 5.0.1
Date	Filename	Size	Description
31st Jan 2023	jaybird-5.0.1.java11.zip	10.3 Mb	Zip for Java 11/JDBC 4.3
31st Jan 2023	jaybird-5.0.1.java8.zip	9.34 Mb	Zip for Java 8/JDBC 4.2
31st Jan 2023	v5.0.1.zip	3.1 Mb	Source code

Jaybird 4.0.9

Jaybird 4 supports Firebird 2.5 and higher, on Java 7, 8, 11, 17 and 19 (support for Java 11 and higher using the Java 11 version of the driver).