Firebird: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for Firebird from Firebird Project

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2025-12-11

What is Firebird?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementFirebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, MacOS and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names, since 1981.
 

The entire lifecycle of Firebird

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Firebird. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
Firebird (Firebird Project) release, version and end-of-life information
XFirebird (Firebird Project) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Firebird (Firebird Project)
 

Facts and figures about Firebird

Product
Firebird
Vendor
Firebird Project
Latest version
5.0.3
Number of releases
7
Number of versions
80
Number of unstable versions
22
Number of versions affected by CVE
50
Licence
Mozilla Public Licence 1.1 (MPL)
Licence details
https://www.firebirdsql.org/en/initial-developer-s-public-license-version-1-0/
 
 

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