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New article “Using UUID in Firebird” by D. Simonov covers practical approaches to working with UUIDs in Firebird without core modifications.

HQbird 2024R2 Update 11

HQbird 2024 R2 Update 10 introduces the big new feature - Materialized Views, and several important bug fixes and improvements

HQbird 2024 Update 8

Great news! Book "Secrets of Firebird SQL Optimizer" is now available (PDF, 420 pages) for pre-order at 50% off! Get this essential guide and take your database optimization skills to the next level.

BlackFriday 2025: HQbird and FirstAID -15%

Mandatory update from Firebird 5.0.4.1725 to 5.0.4.1726

IBSurgeon announces release 1.6.2 of streaming technology in HQbird

For users who want to minimize risk, we're offering a Masterclass HQbird: personalized guided setup and onboarding for HQbird, plus an extended trial period until February 1, 2026, with 2 options: shared masterclass with max 3 participants for US$99, or individual for US$149.

*October 2025* – IBSurgeon announces HQbird 2024 R2 Update 7, delivering significant performance improvements in Firebird 5, simplified cloud deployment, and advanced replication features for enterprise database environments.

Get usd200 and try HQbird in Digital Ocean

We have implemented 1-step installer to implement encryption to your Firebird (versions 5, 4, and 3).

Firebird Project has discovered critical security issues in old versions of all supported releases: if your version is equal or less than specified versions (with build number) 3.0.13.33809, 4.0.6.3203, 5.0.3.1651, you need to upgrade to the latest Firebird releases (3.0.13.33818, 4.0.6.3221, 5.0.3.1683).

IBSurgeon FirstAID 8.0: now with support of Firebird 5!

BLOB revolution in new HQbird 2024 R2 Update 2

HQbird 2024 R2 introduces support for many databases on the same server

Free book "Detailed features of Firebird 5" is published. 119 pages of essential information about Firebird 5.

New update of HQBird v2024, minor improvements and support of group operations

We've identified an issue where the latest libpthread library versions are not compatible with Firebird 2.5 (including the latest available release of vanilla version 2.5.9.27139 and HQbird 2.5 till the version 2.5.9.27173). Fix for HQbird 2.5 is already available.

HQbird is advanced distribution of Firebird, with many improvements in the areas of performance, high availability, development, and more.

The release of Firebird 5 (and HQbird with Firebird 5) is closer and closer. To learn about new features, read the first 3 parts of detailed materials about Firebird 5

In October-November 2023, IBSurgeon with MQFS.com.br will be doing Firebird Tour events focused on performance.

Event "Launch of Firebird 5" took place 2023 June 17 - Palhoça/SC, in Portuguese

The free open source "IBSurgeon Full Text Search UDR" to perform full text search queries within SQL and PSQL

HQbird 2022 Update 6 introduces several bug fixes in mappings of security permissions for users

HQbird 2022 Update 4 is released

All our products are Not vulnerable to Log4j CVE

IBSurgeon releases FirstAID 7.5: a recovery tool to fix heavily corrupted Firebird and InterBase databases.

IBSurgeon is glad to announce the new version of HQbird 2022: advanced Firebird SQL distribution for enterprises, with development, monitoring, and recovery tools.

IBSurgeon is happy to present HQbird 2020, Update 7.

The new article "How Firebird Database Encryption Works" is based on the materials of the workshop "Database Encryption" at Firebird Conference 2019 in Berlin, Germany, presented by Alex Peshkoff, Firebird Project, and Alexey Kovyazin, IBSurgeon.

IBSurgeon releases a new version of Firebird Encryption Plugin Framework: the set of source files and ready-to-use compiled binaries to implement database encryption for Firebird databases.

IBSurgeon releases HQbird 2020, Update 5

IBSurgeon releases version 7 of FirstAID: recovery for Firebird and InterBase databases, with InterBase 2020 support.

We are pleased to announce HQbird 2020 Update 4.

HQbird 2020 Update 3: several minor fixes and improvements

FirstAID 6.0.7 Minor Update

HQbird 2020 Update 2

The minor update of HQbird 2020 introduces several useful features and important bug fixes

The new article is published: Short IBSurgeon's checklist for Firebird database performance. Please check these basic settings and parameters to ensure that Firebird is configured without obvious mistakes.

The new release of HQbird 2020 delivers significant performance improvements.

The practical guide on how to track update conflicts in Firebird

The article "Transactions in Firebird" is the introduction to the basics of Firebird transactions: ACID, isolation levels, updates conflicts and "true deadlock".

The new article describes how to convert Firebird 2.5 database into Firebird 3.0 with the stream backup-restore.

The collection of tips and tricks to improve Firebird database performance.

IBSurgeon is glad to announce the new version of FirstAID (6.0): an ultimate recovery tool for Firebird and InterBase

IBSurgeon is happy to announce the new release of HQbird – advanced Firebird distribution for enterprises, featuring native (high-performance and transactions friendly) master-slave replication, advanced performance monitoring, automated backups, and maintenance.