Jaybird 6.0.5 and Jaybird 5.0.12 released

27 March 2026

We are happy to announce the release of Jaybird 6.0.5 and Jaybird 5.0.12, providing bug fixes. Jaybird is the Firebird JDBC driver.

Changes

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)

The following was fixed or changed since Jaybird 5.0.11:

  • JDBC 4.5 support: JaybirdTypeCodes.DECFLOAT and JaybirdType.DECFLOAT now use type code 2015 instead of -6001 (#917)

  • 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 (#918)

  • JDBC 4.5 support: implemented “disable escape processing” JDBC escape ({\...\}) (#920)

  • Fixed: JDBC escapes should not be parsed inside dialect 3 delimited identifiers or dialect 1 string literals (#922)

  • Fixed: IndexOutOfBoundsException in FBCachedBlob.getBytes(long, int) for position or length beyond end of data (#924)

  • Fixed: Using native client, password is limited to 255 bytes (#926)

  • Fixed: Infinite loop in FBPooledConnection#fireConnectionError(SQLException) if the exception has a chained exception and neither is fatal (#928)

  • JDBC 4.5 support: FBDatabaseMetaData.getJDBCMinorVersion() should report 5 (for JDBC 4.5) on Java 26 and higher (#929)

Jaybird 6.0.5

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

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Jaybird 5.0.12

Jaybird 5 supports Firebird 2.5 and higher, on Java 8, Java 11, Java 17, Java 21, Java 25, and Java 26 (support for Java 11 and higher using the Java 11 version of the driver).

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