We are happy to announce the release of Jaybird 6.0.3 and Jaybird 5.0.9, providing bug fixes. Jaybird is the Firebird JDBC driver.

Changes

The following was fixed or changed in Jaybird 6.0.3:

• Fixed: statement close could cause a hang of the connection (#876)
• Fixed: ResultSet move incorrectly closes input Clob (#880)
• Fixed: Batch execution with multiple empty strings resulted in error "Repeated blob id 0:0 in registerBlob()" (#888)
• Dependency update: updated org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk18on from 1.80 to 1.81 (used by chacha64-plugin) (#889)
• Fixed: On Java 24, Connection.abort, Connection.setNetworkTimeout, and OperationMonitor.initOperationAware always throw "java.lang.SecurityException: checking permissions is not supported" (#890)

The following was fixed or changed in Jaybird 5.0.9:

• Fixed: ResultSet move incorrectly closes input Clob (#881)

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

Jaybird 6.0.3

Jaybird 6 supports Firebird 3.0, Firebird 4.0, and Firebird 5.0, on Java 17, Java 21, and Java 24.

See also:

• Jaybird 6 release notes
• Jaybird downloads
• Instructions for Maven

Jaybird 5.0.9

Jaybird 5 supports Firebird 2.5, Firebird 3.0, Firebird 4.0, and Firebird 5.0, on Java 8, Java 11, Java 17, Java 21, and Java 24 (support for Java 11 and higher using the Java 11 version of the driver). 

See also:

• Jaybird 5 release notes
• Jaybird downloads
• Instructions for Maven