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.
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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.
Firebird Performance Tour 2019 will take place in Moscow (November 29, 2018), Prague (December 4, 2018) and Bad Sassendorf, Germany (December 6, 2018).
We are glad to announce the general availability of HQbird 2018R2: the new version of an advanced Firebird distribution.
IBSurgeon is glad to announce the availability of the new version of Firebird Encryption Plugin Framework: the fast and easy way to add transparent and strong (AES256) encryption for Firebird databases.
The excerpt from "Migration Guide To Firebird 3" is devoted to testing applications for the compatibility, after the database migration, using HQbird Standard tool: FBScanner.
More and more users upgrade to Windows Server 2016 from old versions, and some of them have noticed that Windows Server 2016 works slower than previous versions, even on the same hardware with the same database.
HQbird 2018: new release of the advanced Firebird distribution
The first version of the first chapter of Firebird Developer Guide is available for preview.
The first 200 pages of the German version of Firebird 2.5 Language Reference are available now.
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