Support of the integrated Windows authentification (SSPI) for
Firebird 2.1.
Support of the system auth using environment variables: ISC_USER and ISC_PASSWORD.
Feature of enable/disable database triggers for separate connection is available.
Support of long names and BOOLEAN type in Interbase 7.x and Interbase 2007 was added.
Support of arrays was improved. Access to arrays via IBProvider now becomes more robust [...]
IBProvider team released own OLE DB Interbase and Firebird driver.
New implementation of the data type’s converter.
Test system was improved and found bugs were fixed. More than 15 000 tests coded.
Core was optimized.
Read more about new IBProvider data type converter
The 3rd part of the Interbase and Firebird Developer’s manual for ADO .Net was published. Examples for DDL queries, metadata schemas and ODBC sequences were presented.
New IBProvider v3.0 RC2 [build 3997] for 64 bits operational systems has been released.
Also the related article 10 reasons to upgrade Interbase and Firebird application to 64 bits was published.