v1.10.5

Fixed

• Unregistered bug: DECFLOAT ARRAYs do not work.

v1.10.4

Added

• Support for values fetched from environment variables in configuration files via
  EnvExtendedInterpolation provided by firebird-base package v1.8.0.

Fixed

• Unregistered bug: db info call for CRYPT_KEY, CRYPT_PLUGIN, WIRE_CRYPT, DB_GUID and
  DB_FILE_ID returned mangled values.
• Unregistered bug: db info call for FIREBIRD_VERSION or Connection.info.firebird_version
  always returned only one string. Now it returns all values returned by server, separated
  by newline.

v1.10.3

Fixed

• #30 - It is not possible to start a transaction without specifying an isolation level
  The fix allows use of empty tpb in TransactionManager.begin()

v1.10.2

Fixed

• Mangled output for DbInfoCode itsens CRYPT_PLUGIN, WIRE_CRYPT, DB_GUID and DB_FILE_ID
• #34 - Pre-1970 dates causes OverflowError
• #38 - 'datetime.date' object has no attribute 'date'

v1.10.1

Fixed

• Call iProvider.shutdown() on program exit.
• #33 - SIGABRT on interface detach.

v1.10.0

Fixed

• #27 - Failed to establish a connection to the server on the specified port.
• #15 - Documentation issue.

Changed

• Build system changed from setuptools to hatch

v1.9.0

• New: Initial (as for Beta 1) support for Firebird 5.0 API and features.

  • New and extended types: Extended DbInfoCode, StmtInfoCode, DPBItem, SrvRepairOption, SrvBackupOption, SrvNBackupOption, Implementation, SrvRepairFlag, SrvBackupFlag and new ResultSetInfoCode.

  • API: iResultSet.get_info method available for FB5 attachments.

  • Parallel workers: Added DatabaseConfig.parallel_workers configuration option, added parallel_workers parameter to ServerDbServices3.backup, ServerDbServices3.restore and ServerDbServices3.sweep, added parallel_workers to DPB

  • New ServerDbServices.upgrade method (in-place minor ODS upgrades)

• Test: Fix name for to_dict() test.

• Add: Classic API functions for BLR and BLOB manipulation to FirebirdAPI.

• Fix: Wait for completion of ServerDbServices services that do not return data. Otherwise subsequent service calls may end with “Service is currently busy” error.

• Improvement: Internal handling of attachment and trasansaction handles.

• Fix: Documentation link for the driver, provided by @mariuz

• Fix #20: Cursor.description returning () instead of None when the cursor has no rows, which is violation of PEP 249. Fix provided by @fdcastel

v1.8.0

New: Server.readline_timed method.

v1.7.0

• New: Cursor.to_dict() method.
• Move away from setup.cfg to pyproject.toml, changed source tree layout.

Release 1.6.0

• Further code optimizations.
• Addressing issues reported by pylint.
• Updated Firebird OO API (interface extensions between 3.0.7->3.0.10, 4.0.0->4.0.2)
• Improved documentation.