The Firebird Project is pleased to announce the release today of the second cycle of Firebird 2.0 public Beta kits for immediate download and testing.

Firebird 2 contains a large number of new features, including derived tables, support for Execute Block, increased table sizes, new improved index code (the 252-byte index length limit is no longer applicable), expression indices, numerous optimiser improvements, enhanced security features, support for on-line incremental backups, new international language support, along with numerous other improvements and bug fixes. (0 comments)