What's new

The following was fixed or changed since Jaybird 6.0.4:

JDBC 4.5 support: JaybirdTypeCodes.DECFLOAT and JaybirdType.DECFLOAT now use type code 2015 instead of -6001 (#906)
JDBC 4.5 support: implemented methods enquoteIdentifier, enquoteLiteral, enquoteNCharLiteral, and isSimpleIdentifier on FBConnection, and added them to interface FirebirdConnection for access in older Java versions (#908)
JDBC 4.5 support: implemented "disable escape processing" JDBC escape ({\...\}) (#909)
JDBC 4.5 support: FBDatabaseMetaData.getJDBCMinorVersion() should report 5 (for JDBC 4.5) on Java 26 and higher (#915)
Fixed: JDBC escapes should not be parsed inside dialect 3 delimited identifiers or dialect 1 string literals (#921)
Fixed: IndexOutOfBoundsException in FBCachedBlob.getBytes(long, int) for position or length beyond end of data (#923)
Fixed: Using native client, password is limited to 255 bytes (#925)
Fixed: Infinite loop in FBPooledConnection#fireConnectionError(SQLException) if the exception has a chained exception and neither is fatal (#927)

Jaybird 6 supports Firebird 3.0, Firebird 4.0, and Firebird 5.0, on Java 17, Java 21, Java 25, and Java 26.

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

Maven

The release is also available on Maven:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.firebirdsql.jdbc</groupId>
  <artifactId>jaybird</artifactId>
  <version>6.0.5</version>
</dependency>

If you use the native or embedded protocol, you need to add the jaybird-native dependency:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.firebirdsql.jdbc</groupId>
  <artifactId>jaybird-native</artifactId>
  <version>6.0.5</version>
</dependency>

For ChaCha64 wire encryption support, add the chacha64-plugin dependency:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.firebirdsql.jdbc</groupId>
  <artifactId>chacha64-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>6.0.5</version>
</dependency>