Firebird 4.0.5

Firebird 4.0 introduces new data types and many improvements without radical changes in architecture or operation, the most important are:

• Built-in logical replication;
• Extended length of metadata identifiers (up to 63 characters);
• New INT128 and DECFLOAT data types, longer precision for NUMERIC/DECIMAL data types;
• Support for international time zones;
• Configurable time-outs for connections and statements;
• Pooling of external connections;
• Batch operations in the API;
• Built-in cryptographic functions;
• New ODS (version 13) with new system and monitoring tables;
• Maximum page size increased to 32KB