Firebird 5.0.4 = New Release

[Abaksoft]

Hi

Incredebile fast !

https://www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-5-0-4/

 

[AlexM123]

But a lot of work to migrate data from 3 to 5

[Abaksoft]

I migrated Firebird database from 2.5 to 5.0  without any problem:

Do a Backup / Restore  like this  :

1. Save your DB (Backup with old gbak) in Firebird 3.0

2. Uninstall the old Firebird 3.0

3. Delete all Firebird Folders :

• C:\ProgramData\Firebird

• C:\ProgramFiles (x86)\Firebird

• And also : C:\windows\syswow\Fbclient.dll

4. Install your new Firebird 5.0

5. Restore your DB With the new gbak

That'all.

[AlexM123]

There are some Issues from a big list:

•  UDF issues
•  CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and CURRENT_TIME have time zone
• sweep is not auto if a transaction is COMMITTED READ CONSISTENCY

...

 

[Abaksoft]

36 minutes ago, AlexM123 said:

There are some Issues from a big list:

•  UDF issues
•  CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and CURRENT_TIME have time zone
• sweep is not auto if a transaction is COMMITTED READ CONSISTENCY

...

 

Humm... I see.

"Alternatively, create the new database structure on Firebird 5.0, and pump the data from the old Firebird 2.5 database to the new Firebird 5.0 database."

Mark Rotteveel

[Freeman35]

On 4/22/2026 at 12:16 PM, AlexM123 said:

But a lot of work to migrate data from 3 to 5

FB 6 will realese  if you wanna upgrade, investigate fb6 and then move new structure  on fb 6. Table data transfer is not too hard. many tools has it.

 

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