************************** * v2.0.6 ************************** * Bugfix CORE-2507 Intermittent CreateFile() failure Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun * Bugfix CORE-2449 Unexpected "lock conflict" error can be thrown instead of other (expected) exception Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Bugfix CORE-2444 The engine could hang when multiple attachments register their interest in events simultaneously and free space in the events table is exhausted Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun * Bugfix CORE-2437 Buffer overflow on client when delivering events Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Bugfix CORE-2415 Firebird crashes when out of temporary space Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Bugfix CORE-2411 Optimizer chooses slower plan in v2.0.5/v2.1.2 as compared to v2.0.4/v2.1.1 Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Bugfix CORE-2395 Lost the supplementary characters(UTF-8 4-byte) at immediate API handling Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Bugfix CORE-2368 Access violation after the isc_cancel_events() call if event was not found Contributor(s): Vlad Khorsun * Bugfix CORE-2355 Incorrect handling of LOWER/UPPER when result string shrinks in terms of byte length Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Bugfix CORE-2354 "fb_lock_print -ia" output is not flushed to a file between iterations Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Bugfix CORE-2326 Access violation when committing a new view while trigger on rdb$relations is in place Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Bugfix CORE-2306 fbserver terminates abnormally when thread start failed Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Bugfix CORE-2282 *truncate UDFs are broken for numbers below -1 Contributor(s): Claudio Valderrama * Bugfix CORE-2281 *round UDFs are broken for negative numbers Contributor(s): Claudio Valderrama * Bugfix CORE-2272 Server starts returning garbage when killing events connection attempt Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Bugfix CORE-2271 GFIX reports the database ownership error way too late Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Bugfix CORE-2270 ISQL consumes all memory and crashes when running in zlogin console Contributor(s): Jaroslaw Swierczynski Alex Peshkov * Bugfix CORE-2247 Message and descriptor buffers are not aligned properly (RISC machines only) Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Bugfix CORE-2245 Error on restoring a database with long exception texts from backup Contributor(s): Claudio Valderrama * Bugfix CORE-2173 Server crashes after abnormal disconnect with open ExecuteStatement Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Bugfix CORE-2157 fbclient does not have the libpthread dependency Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Bugfix CORE-1961 Bugcheck 210 (page in use during flush) is thrown during database validation Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov Roman Simakov * Bugfix CORE-1923 "instsvc remove" returns 1 when succefully executed Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Improvement CORE-2316 Throttling NBackup on large databases Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Improvement CORE-2200 Extremely slow executing a cross join of 3 tables in Firebird 2.x Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov ************************** * v2.0.5 ************************** * Fixed unregistered bug Issue with @prefix@ in aliases.conf on MacOS Contributor(s): Paul Beach * Fixed bug CORE-2223 Multiple bugs in GBAK when working with ACLs Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-2221 Attach to any database fails after modification of access rights of security2.fdb from 0660 to 0666 Contributor(s): Paul Beach Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-2108 "get_free_slot() failed" error Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-2078 Suboptimal join plan if there are selective non-indexed predicates involved Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-2077 Embedded/Classic: signal TERM handling Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-2077 Signal TERM in CS 2.1 for Linux Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-2073 Expression indexes bug: incorrect result for the inverted boolean Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-2065 Client library is not in default dynamic loader search paths Contributor(s): Paul Beach * Fixed bug CORE-2055 Buffer overflow in fbclient Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-2050 Performance regression - too many semop() system calls Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-2049 Performance regression - too many sigprocmask() system calls Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-2000 Lock manager may report false deadlocks under high load Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1984 Lock manager reports false deadlocks if one of deadlock participants waits with permitted timeout Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1983 Out of memory condition in OS causes the server crash Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1982 Simultaneous backups/restores could interfere each with other using the Services API Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed bug CORE-1972 Non-SYSDBA user can change FW mode of database Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1970 Lock conversion denied (bugcheck 215) error may occurs Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1958 Bugcheck 179 (decompression overran buffer) when attempting to update the same record multiple times Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1957 Long ACLs truncated Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1930 Possible engine crash if procedure was altered to have no outputs and dependent procedures was not recompiled Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1919 Memory corruptions in EXECUTE STATEMENT may crash the server Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed bug CORE-1909 Garbage in firebird.log on linux/amd64 Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1887 Newly created databases have wrong access rights Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1886 Server doesn't start as an application under restricted user accounts on Vista Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1884 Random server crashes using stored procedures with expressions as default values of input parameters Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1854 Value of CURRENT_USER may be not in upper case when using Unix OS authentication Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1844 Valgrind often reports "Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)" in check_status_vector() Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1841 If some VIEW used derived tables and long table names\aliases, It is possible to overflow RDB$VIEW_RELATIONS.RDB$CONTEXT_NAME Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1840 Small memory leak per every DDL execution Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1830 Possible index corruption with multiply updates of the same record in the same transaction and using of savepoints Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1826 changeRunUser.sh and restoreRootRunUser.sh scripts does not change run user in init.d scripts Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1817 The RelaxedAliasChecking parameter has no effect concerning RDB$DB_KEY Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1810 Problem with usernames containing the '.' character Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1807 fbserver is assigned to a non-canonical port after abnormal termination Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1506 Server crash with isc_dsql_execute_immediate and zero length string Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1451 Using RDB$DB_KEY inside the WHERE clause while selecting from a procedure crashes the server Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed bug CORE-1439 DB corruption when killing posix CS Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1357 DummyPacketInterval mechanism broken Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1313 RDB$DB_KEY not supported in derived tables and merge command Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Improvement CORE-1889 Security database has FW mode OFF, making it corrupted under some circumstances Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov ************************** * v2.0.4 ************************** * Fixed bug CORE-1820 Setup program doesn't detect a running server Contributor(s): Paul Reeves Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1775 Bad performance of the security checking during prepare Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1774 Problem with collate ES_ES_CI_AI Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed bug CORE-1746 Expression index can be created while doing inserts into table Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1731 Sometimes the engine may "hang" using 100% CPU load and no IO activity for a few minutes Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1726 Failure in isc_service_start() Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1702 Wrong record number calculation in garbage collector thread Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1681 Garbage data in the incoming remote packet may crash the server Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1680 "gsec display" only shows some first users when there are many users (>50) in security database Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1679 Garbage bytes in isc_service_query() output Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1674 Wrong access rights in doc subdirectory Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1657 AV with long inactive read-only read-commited transaction Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1644 Compilation error on GCC 4.1.1 Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1610 Full shutdown causes database corruption if it happens when SuperServer is running a query modifying data Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1603 Possible buffer overflow with long user name Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1579 Corrupt BLOB in UDF if followed by a char* that is a timestamp Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1572 Error "multiple rows in singleton select" not reported in a view Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed bug CORE-1549 Subquery-based predicates are not evaluated early in the join order Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1533 JOIN on first record of ordered derived table returns wrong record Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1501 Wrong access to SLONG data in dsql_nod Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1500 Data in EXECUTE STATEMENT internal buffer is not aligned correctly Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1499 Wrong alignment of data, used in INTL converters Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1484 AV in fbintl Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1481 GFIX may report false errors when using in-memory metadata Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1476 Forced writes do not work on Linux Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1470 Server crashes with secondary file name > 127 characters Contributor(s): Claudio Valderrama * Fixed bug CORE-1462 Server crash caused by a buffer overrun in the optimizer when more than 255 relation references exist in the query Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1460 Server crashes when client registers its interest in events being connected via Named Pipes Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1457 Server crashes attempting to deliver events for the just disconnected session Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1456 Wrong events delivery in the case of concurrent XNET connections Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1455 Crash in fbclient after unsuccessful user management API call Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1452 Client library crashes when attempting to process an event received just prior to disconnection Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1447 Buffer overrun when querying for database info on very long path through isc_database_info() API call Contributor(s): Claudio Valderrama * Fixed bug CORE-1442 fbclient.dll / gds32.dll : readonly database files on isc_attach_database (error code 0 instead of 335544727) Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1421 SuperServer can't shutdown immediately after shutdown request after failed login attempt Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1419 Wrong current timestamp evaluation for selectable procedures Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1199 Firebird SS: internal gds software consistency check (CCH_precedence: block marked (212), file: cch.cpp line: 3640) Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1194 Fbclient access violation when handling fbserver shutdown Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-881 Singleton isn't respected in COMPUTED BY expressions Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed bug CORE-100 Access Violation in fcblient.dll v1.5.3 on disconnecting Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov ************************** * v2.0.3 ************************** * Fixed bug CORE-1434 Incorrect result with EXECUTE STATEMENT and VARCHAR columns Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed bug CORE-1418 Races when starting and quickly shutting down blocking AST thread Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Solaris port Contributor(s): Paul Beach Alex Peshkov ************************** * v2.0.2 ************************** * Fixed bug CORE-1405 Vulnerability in attach/create database when filename exceeds MAX_PATH_LEN Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1403 Server crashes if a few events are being registered simultaneously by the client connected via XNET Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1400 GSTAT doesn't support port number in connection string Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1399 GSTAT does not use RemoteServicePort option in firebird.conf Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1398 GSTAT: 'localhost' is case-sensitive in Windows Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1397 Possible vulnerability in the remote server Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1380 IO errors after changing FW on already attached database Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1371 Execute block fails within execute statement Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1349 Remote interface doesn't check (in REM_receive and REM_fetch calls) the client's supplied message length against the length of message's format Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1347 Unexpected "cannot transliterate" error Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed bug CORE-1331 Charset transliterations don't work with EXECUTE STATEMENT Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed bug CORE-1328 Unexpected end of input when running gfix in dialog Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1312 A remote attacker can check, if a file is present in the system, running firebird server Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1303 Infinite loop in SS remote listener Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1302 Races during service startup Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1300 Lower level index pages is missed from parent page Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1299 Wrong index entries order at non-leaf b-tree pages Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1298 BTR\garbage_collect code can make a deadlock in a page cache Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1292 Can't create table using long username and UTF8 as attachment charset Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed bug CORE-1286 Bug with COMPUTED BY fields Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed bug CORE-1279 Incorrect initialization of the engine with many simultaneous attachments at first time Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed bug CORE-1276 Sometime INET error reported as 0 in firebird.log instead of real error code Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1265 Database detach deallocates the memory used by an active critical section Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1249 Full shutdown mode doesn't work on Classic if there are other connections to the database Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1248 Incorrect timestamp arithmetic when one of operands is negative number Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1247 Blobs garbage collector removes wrong blob if going blob descriptor contains 0:0 (NULL value) but field's NULL flag is not set Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1240 Any task, using libfbclient, hangs on exit (Darwin PPC) Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1223 Wrong message in firebird.log on Open SuSe Linux 10.2: "Open file limit increased from 1024 to 0" Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1207 FB Embedded requires extra OS privileges Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1205 v2.1 GBAK crashes the v2.0.x server when attempting to backup a database Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov Claudio Valderrama * Fixed bug CORE-1203 Performance issue with some queries on Linux 32 bits Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1183 View cannot be created if its WHERE clause contains IN with a procedure reference Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1156 Prepare fails when having a parameter in a DSQL statement before a sub query Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed bug CORE-1153 Activating index change "STARTING" working as "LIKE" in join condition Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed bug CORE-1149 DoS attack on server using Services API Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1145 Server locks up while attempting to commit a deletion of an expression index Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1142 Cannot alter generator's comment to the same value Contributor(s): Claudio Valderrama * Fixed bug CORE-984 fbclient.dll changes the security descriptor of the calling process Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-968 Lost connection with Firebird server Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-900 Deadlock when attaching simultaneously with services and standard APIs Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Improvement CORE-1148 Regular users are prevented from retrieving the server log using Services API. This is now allowed for SYSDBA only. Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * MacOS Firebird Classic Intel Port Contributor(s): Paul Beach ************************** * v2.0.1 ************************** * Improvement CORE-1071 Background garbage collector doesn't need to read backversions of the active record Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Improvement CORE-1047 Add support for Gentoo/FreeBSD detection Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Improvement CORE-1012 IBO problems with FB >= 1.5.3 "Error with joins and auto-generated search query" Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed bug CORE-1140 Server crashes when performing GC during index creation (related to existence of expression indices on the same table) Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1139 NBackup doesn't delete the delta file after successful backup on Win32 CS Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1136 NBackup cannot backup a recently created database Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1133 XNET (IPC) communication protocol does not work across sessions Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1130 Bad optimization: left join (or ) Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1127 Circular index references in corrupt database causes fbserver to loop infinitely Contributor(s): Diane Downie Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1126 UNION vs UTF8 literals: arithmetic exception is thrown Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed bug CORE-1124 NBackup doesn't work in the interactive mode on Windows Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1121 NBackup: Page-level deadlock (bugcheck 215) when attempting to lock/backup a database under load Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov George Sergeev * Fixed bug CORE-1110 isc_get_client_xxx_version not fully compatible with IB's gds32.dll Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1104 Linux install fails when x0rfbserver program is running Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1094 isc_dsql_sql_info() returns unordered SQLVAR descriptors Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1080 Bugcheck 167 (invalid SEND request) in SS when many parallel attachments begin to execute trigger not loaded into metadata cache Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1068 ISQL doesn't print not-nullable blobs Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed bug CORE-1064 Wrong backup order for character sets and collations Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed bug CORE-1063 Server hangs eating CPU and performs huge I/O copying different codepage fields Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1059 Remote Linux Classic crash Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1057 GSEC hiding error - CryptAcquireContext Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed bug CORE-1055 Wrong parameter matching for self-referenced procedures Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1053 Invalid results in SELECT, when index is used to evaluate "greater" operator in WHERE clause Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov Arno Brinkman Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1051 Possible stack corruption in DFW\check_dependencies Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1046 Core dump in CVT_move Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1040 Wrong single-segment ascending index on character field with NULL and empty string values Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun Arno Brinkman * Fixed bug CORE-1037 Command-line for Installation of SuperServer Component is not working Contributor(s): Paul Reeves * Fixed bug CORE-1033 LIKE clause doesn't work for computed values (at least in a view) Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed bug CORE-1029 Bad plan in outer joins with IS NULL clauses (dependent on order of predicates) Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1025 Server crashes at runtime when an explicit MERGE plan is specified over a few JOIN ones Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1020 Command-line switch /silent or /verysilent does not install the guardian Contributor(s): Paul Reeves * Fixed bug CORE-1017 Service attachments (over presumably Xnet) fail when Classic started with -x -i parameters Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1016 UdfAccess check is performed after loading the library and executing its startup code Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-1011 Server crashes when being connected to via InterBase gds32.dll Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1010 Server crashes if DDL statement execution raises an error Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1006 AV at rollback and/or garbage collection if updated table has expression index with SELECT in it Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-1005 DISTINCT vs NULLS LAST clause: wrong order of NULLs Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-1004 Context already in use (BLR error) Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-997 Database Update 1.5 to 2.0 fails Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed bug CORE-988 FB SuperServer 32bit old threading, regularly restarts "fbserver terminated abnormally (-1)" Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-984 fbclient.dll changes the security descriptor of the calling process Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-982 Error reading data from the connection Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-966 Bug in socket binding for database events Contributor(s): Paul Beach * Fixed bug CORE-959 GSTAT does not work using the localhost connection string Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-952 AV when blob is used in expression index Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug CORE-944 FB2 RC4 Linux Classic server crashes Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug CORE-943 Incorrect shutdown, when database is in the phisical backup mode Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug CORE-888 DDL - object in use Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov ************************** * v2.0 Final ************************** * Fixed RC5 bug (CORE-980) NO WAIT is implied instead of WAIT when the host application doesn't provide TPB Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed RC5 bug Server crashes if being connected via gds32 from latest InterBase versions Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov Alex Peshkov ************************** * v2.0 Release Candidate 5 ************************** * Fixed unregistered bug Win32 installer was trying to upgrade an existing Fb 1.5 install. This was the underlying cause of CORE-934 Contributor(s): Paul Reeves * Fixed RC4 bug (CORE-897) Error "no current record to fetch" while execution a query Contributor(s): Arno Brinkman * Fixed RC4 bug (CORE-924) An attempt to select DB_KEY from a procedure crashes the server Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed RC4 bug (CORE-923) Events (if many ones are registered) not working via the local protocol Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed bug (CORE-921) Core dump in stored procedure using execute statement Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed bug (CORE-911) AV in Classic server after long idle period when using long running read committed readonly transaction Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed RC4 bug (CORE-906) Updating table with non-unique index causes unique data violation error Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed RC4 bug (CORE-904) Too big use of memory in "prepare" Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed bug (CORE-902) Server crashes intermittently when executing DDL/DML statements Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed RC4 bug (CORE-898) Two uninitialized variables cause a server crash in alice.cpp / common_main Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed RC4 bug (CORE-895) In some rare cases unique index violation is possible. The case is when existing index entry is the last entry on the page and inserted record with the same key have a number less than in existing entry Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun ************************** * v2.0 Release Candidate 4 ************************** * Fixed RC3 bug (CORE-839) Instclient failed to install gds32 over an existing version from V1.5.1 or later Contributor: Paul Reeves * Fixed unregistered bug Service didn't restart correctly on SUSE Linux Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed RC3 bug (CORE-855) Aggregates in the WHERE clause vs derived tables Contributor(s): Arno Brinkman * Fixed RC3 bug (CORE-883) The built-in BLR printer (isc_print_blr) doesn't support all FB2 features Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed RC3 bug (CORE-841) Access violation in services API (CORE-841) Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed RC3 bug (CORE-879) Dependencies are not cleared when creation of expression index fails Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed RC3 bug (CORE-860) Server crashes when attempting to restore a v1.5 backup Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed RC3 bug (CORE-858) Server crash when using UDF in PSQL Contributor(s): Claudio Valderrama * Fixed RC3 bug (CORE-857) CONTAINING not working correctly Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed RC3 bug (CORE-852) substring(current_user from 4) without "for" fails Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes ************************** * v2.0 Release Candidate 3 ************************** * Fixed RC2 bug GSTAT and NBAK should not require firebird.conf on Win32 Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Added new collation ES_ES_CI_AI (case- and accent-insensitive) for ISO8859_1 charset (Spanish language) Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed unregistered bug Server crashes with complex joins or derived tables and grouping Contributor(s): George Sergeev * Fixed RC2 bug Server lockup when an exception occurs during expression index evaluation Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed RC2 bug STARTS WITH not working properly on an indexed column with charset UTF8 Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed unregistered bug TCP buffer size bigger than 32K cannot be processed correctly Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed unregistered bug NoNagle option for TCP sockets doesn't work properly Contributor(s): Fred Polizo Alex Peshkov * Fixed RC2 bug Views WITH CHECK OPTION cannot be restored Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed RC2 bug Server occasionally crashes when explicit plans present in procedures Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed RC2 bug NBACKUP utility was missing in the Linux SS packages Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed RC2 bug Suboptimal execution path is chosen if an explicit plan presents for a complex inner join Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed RC2 bug Expression: '' CONTAINING '' wrongly returned FALSE Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed RC2 bug Wrong results for ALL predicates in the ODS11 optimizer Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed RC2 bug Wrong decoding of the SPB tags Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov ************************** * v2.0 Release Candidate 2 ************************** * Fixed RC1 bug SuperServer performs slower than v1.5 on SMP machines Contributor(s): Arno Brinkman * Fixed RC1 bug Domain level CHECK constraints don't allow NULL values Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed RC1 bug Embedded server cannot connect via TCP, error "connection rejected by remote interface" Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed RC1 bug Error "operating system directive ReleaseSemaphore failed" under heavy concurrent load Contributor(s): Christian Barheine Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed RC1 bug The INTL library (fbintl) cannot be loaded on some Windows distributions Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Configuration file change Option CreateInternalWindow is no longer required to run a few server instances and it has been removed Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed RC1 bug MERGE plan is used for related streams, causing "no current record" error Contributor(s): Arno Brinkman * Fixed unregistered bug Index data corruption under heavy concurrent load Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed unregistered bug AV when configured to use big (about 32K) TCP packets Contributor(s): Claudio Valderrama Alex Peshkov * Added new collation ISO_PLK for ISO8859_2 charset (Polish language) Contributor(s): Jaroslaw Glowacki Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed RC1 bug SHOW GENERATORS doesn't work in ISQL Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed SF #1466193 Semaphore array`s permissions in fb_lock_mgr were 0666 - i.e. anyone could lock them and block all future queries Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed unregistered bug 2.0 regression - install of SuperServer over existing Classic was broken Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed SF #1456002 2.0 regression - gsec illegally reported error on attempt to use long (>8 characters) password Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed SF #1011401 start/stop script broke halt/reboot on slackware Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed unregistered bug 2.0 regression - SuperServer startup script stopped all 'fbserver' processes, being specially dangerous in case of running both 2.0 and 1.5 on the same box Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed unregistered bug fbguard did not detach from controlling terminal Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed unregistered bug 2.0 regression - SuperServer did not shutdown properly due to unhandled exception in semaphore destructor Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed RC1 bug Set up the permissions for NBAK delta files properly to avoid server lockups Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed unregistered bug Error "invalid transaction handle" when calling isc_array_lookup_bounds() from multiple threads Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed unregistered bug Allow NO_NAGLE and KEEPALIVE socket options for CS builds Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed RC1 bug Some integer operations delivered double precision result in Dialect 1 Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed RC1 bug Big number of buffer pages causes the server fault Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed RC1 bug Wrong results by PSQL cursors that use a GROUP BY clause Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed RC1 bug Missing nullability indicator in XSQLDA for EXECUTE BLOCK parameters Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed unregistered bug Improperly allowed assignments to columns deleted by a concurrent transaction Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed RC1 bug Permission checks performed in the wrong order (column level before table level) Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov ************************** * v2.0 Release Candidate 1 ************************** * Enhancement Isql now shows the command line parameters and their explanations instead of a simple list of switches when unknown parameters are used. Contributor(s): Michal Kubecek * Fixed SF #1446987 BLOB not found Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed Beta 2 bug Server crashes when dropping a constraint based on inactive index Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * New port Introduced AMD64 port for FreeBSD Contributor(s): Sergey Skvortsov Alex Peshkov * Security change LegacyHash config option now defaults to 1 (TRUE) Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed Beta 2 bug (SF #1449377) Wrong sum result of derived table with no cast union select Contributor(s): Arno Brinkman * Fixed SF #1434147 Bugs with COUNT (DISTINCT XXX) when XXXX is a high integer Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed SF #1422471 Memory leak in EXECUTE STATEMENT Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed Beta 2 bug Incorrect malformed string error Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed Beta 2 bug Wrong behaviour on OS error in critical mutexes Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed Beta 2 bug Unexpected exception (like out of memory condition) lost in gbak Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed unregistered bug Possible buffer overflow in WNET Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed Beta 2 bug Legacy users' management API failed due to not initialized memory Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Diagnostic enhancement Syslog messages also go to user's tty if process attached to it Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed Beta 2 bug "invalid handle" exception during events shutdown (local protocol only) Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed Beta 2 bug PSQL cursors return incorrect results in case of sorting/aggregation Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed Beta 2 bug RETURNING INTO returns incorrect results Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed SF #1435997 Close database error -901 for embedded server Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed SF #1260310 Nessus scan causes server to drop connections Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed Beta 2 bug (SF #1439268) Sequence of commands crash FB server Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed SF #1385092 Firebird 1.5 SS freezes on terminated connection on blob Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed Beta 2 bug Server crashes due to bug in the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm (LIKE implementation) Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed SF #1436066 Adding index during DB activity causes GFIX errors Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed Beta2 bug Wrong processing (missing records) of GREATER-THAN operator for compound indices in some cases Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed unregistered bug A few types of subqueries are wrongly treated as being variant, causing performance issues Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed Beta 2 bug (SF #$1433583) Unexpected error "key size exceeds implementation restriction" for UTF-8 charset Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed unregistered bug Indices used in explicit plans inside PSQL could be dropped, thus causing restore issues Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed unregistered bug fb_lock_print fails with message: "the requested operation cannot be performed on a file with a user-mapped section open". Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Information API enhancements 1) isc_info_active_transactions_count returns number of active transactions (SF #1315814) 2) isc_transaction_info returns transaction isolation level and options (SF #1089646) 3) isc_info_creation_date returns creation date of the database See also: /doc/sql.extensions/README.isc_info_xxx Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed unregistered bug Transaction ID cannot silently (and dangerously) overflow anymore (the limit is still 2^31) Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed unregistered bug Read committed transactions block garbage collection Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed unregistered bug ALL predicate may return wrong results Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed unregistered bug Thread safety issues in datetime functions of the FBUDF library Contributor(s): Claudio Valderrama * Build improvement FBUDF library no longer depends on FBCLIENT Contributor(s): Claudio Valderrama * Fixed unregistered bug Permissions are not checked for view columns Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed unregistered bug Server crashes if positioned UPDATE/DELETE is executed via DSQL and it references a cursor which is already released. Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed SF bug #1404157 DFW is not ready for RECREATE TABLE/VIEW Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed unregistered bug Restored the code which replaces ROLLBACK with COMMIT if a transaction has not modified any data Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed unregistered bug ROW_COUNT is cleared after SUSPEND execution Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed SF bug #1408079 Parser does not validate string literal markers Contributor(s): Claudio Valderrama * Fixed Beta 2 bug Incorrect ambiguity error raised for quantified predicates (ANY/ALL/IN) Contributor(s): Arno Brinkman * Fixed unregistered bugs 1) Wrong statistics if relation\index data is longer than 2^32 bytes length 2) Wrong statistics: average index key length rounded to integer value Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed unregistered bug Attachments with isc_dpb_no_garbage_collect option force the sweep Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed Beta 2 bug Wrong string length calculated for UNICODE_FSS system domains in users views and tables Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed Beta 2 bug Incorrectly stored source for CURRENT_TIME\CURRENT_TIMESTAMP in procedure parameters default values Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun ************** * v2.0 Beta 2 ************** * Forward port from 1.5.3 Added OldColumnNaming support Contributor: Paul Reeves * Fixed Beta 1 bug Problem causing collation to be lost in sqlsubtype when using dynamic charset Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed Beta 1 bug Expression indices work incorrectly with the COLLATE clause Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed Beta 1 bug Wrong results when a few candidate predicates have different matching rules to lower/upper bounds of the index Contributor(s): Arno Brinkman * Added new collations WIN_CZ for WIN1250 charset (Czech language, case-insensitive) WIN_CZ_CI_AI for WIN1250 charset (Czech language, case-insensitive, accent-insensitive) Contributor(s): Ivan Prenosil Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed unregistered bug The client library doesn't react on setting envvars via SetEnvironmentVariable() Contributor(s): Claudio Valderrama * Fixed SF bug #1404215 Column dependencies are not stored for views Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed Beta 1 bug Remote connections to the Services API performed with a wrong host are in fact served by the local protocol instead of throwing an error Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed Beta 1 bug Bugcheck #205 (index bucket overfilled) during restore Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed Beta 1 bug Expression indices cannot be used for navigation in outer joins Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed Beta 1 bug Wrong (incomplete) errors are reported by system triggers Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed SF bug #229237 Blank passwords poorly supported Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed unregistered bug Made the server version information human readable in ISQL when using the -z flag Contributor(s): Claudio Valderrama * Fixed unregistered bugs A few buffer overruns in ISQL Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed Beta 1 bug An infinite fetch from explicit PSQL cursors based on a navigationally sorted stream Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Security enhancements 1) Active protection from brute-force attack in services API 2) Redirection of remote requests is controlled by firebird.conf Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed unregistered bug Incorrect encryption of password in embedded services manager Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed Beta 1 bug Unexpected warnings about missing UDF libraries during restore on Win32 Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed Beta 1 bug Linux SS performance degradation related to the threads management Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Fixed unregistered bug Incorrect Win32 error output by GSTAT Contributor(s): Claudio Valderrama * Fixed Beta 1 bug Incorrect report by GFIX validation about corruption of primary/unique indices Contributor(s): Arno Brinkman * Fixed Beta 1 bugs 1) Long restore for complex interdependent metadata 2) Indices not used for small tables 3) Bad join order for non-indexed relationships Contributor(s): Arno Brinkman Dmitry Yemanov * Enhanced CAST function (SF #1371274) Now it's possible to use CAST to advise the engine about parameter types, hence avoiding the famous "Datatype unknown" error Example(s): SELECT CAST(? AS INT) FROM RDB$DATABASE Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed SF bug #1191206 A few constraint issues Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed SF bug #1292106 ORDER BY with FOR UPDATE WITH LOCK crashes index Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed SF bug #609538 Alter Index FK - bad error message Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Added new charset Charset WIN1258 for Vietnamese language Contributor(s): Nguyen The Phuong Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed unregistered bug GPRE is unable to generate more than 32K identifiers Contributor(s): Ann Harrison * Fixed Beta 1 bug Datatype changes of index-constrained columns are allowed Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed Beta 1 bug Wrong result for STARTING WITH and subquery containing CASE function Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed Beta 1 bug Backup of the security database is not allowed using Services API Contributor(s): Alex Peshkov * Cleaned up ibase.h Public headers don't contain private declarations anymore Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov Alex Peshkov * Fixed unregistered bug Wrong error can be reported when you access not active contexts in multi-action triggers Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed SF #1368741 Wrong result for UPPER() Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Enhanced API call isc_blob_lookup_desc() now also describes blobs that are outputs of stored procedures Contributor(s): Adriano dos Santos Fernandes * Fixed Beta 1 bug Server crashes when TRIM function is used in aggregation Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed unregistered bug Server crashes when manipulating input DPB due to memory corruption in Parameter Blocks management Contributor(s): Claudio Valderrama * Fixed Beta 1 bug Column names are lost in case of UNION containing derived fields Contributor(s): Arno Brinkman * Fixed Beta 1 bug Server crashes when a few expression indices are used simultaneously Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed SF bug #1175157 Error in thread scheduler causes server to lockup Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed unregistered bug Wrong ISQL metadata extraction for triggers, check constraints and views with check option Contributor(s): Claudio Valderrama Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed Beta 1 bug Server crash when attempting to load metadata for expression index that belong to a not scanned table Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed unregistered bug Internal error is reported when attempting to pass/return blobs to/from string functions inside PSQL Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed Beta 1 bug Corrupted IDs of system generators after restore Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed Beta 1 bug Explicit plan could be rejected/ignored in ODS11 databases Contributor(s): Arno Brinkman * Root directory lookup change Registry is no longer used by the server processes Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed unregistered bugs 1) Improper thread data operations during the protocol port cleanup 2) No transaction rollback / attachment cleanup for broken TCP connections Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed unregistered bug Wrong error message is decoded when firebird.msg is missing or outdated Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed unregistered bug Memory corruption and server crash caused by buffer overflows inside the BLR->ASCII blob filter Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed Beta 1 bug Bad optimization of joins order Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed Beta 1 bug Incorrect source SQL is stored in the metadata for DEFAULT CURRENT_TIME[STAMP] Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed Beta 1 bug Column defaults remain cached after DROP DEFAULT statement Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Enhanced SET TRANSACTION statement All TPB options are now supported: - NO AUTO UNDO - IGNORE LIMBO - LOCK TIMEOUT Example(s): SET TRANSACTION WAIT SNAPSHOT NO AUTO UNDO LOCK TIMEOUT 10 See also: doc/sql.extensions/README.set_transaction.txt Contributor(s): Claudio Valderrama * Fixed Beta 1 bug Server crash caused by invalid reference to RDB$ROLES.RDB$SYSTEM_FLAG in ODS10 databases Contributor(s): Claudio Valderrama * Fixed Beta 1 bug Corrupted incremental backups are created after changes in large blobs Contributor(s): Nickolay Samofatov * Fixed unregistered bug Server crash when attempting to restore a database backup with corrupted VARCHAR data Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov * Fixed unregistered bug A successful status vector could be reported to the user after a failed DDL operation Contributor(s): Vlad Horsun * Fixed unregistered bug Threading issues in the DSQL metadata cache causing unexpected "invalid transaction handle" errors under load Contributor(s): Dmitry Yemanov