Firebird Roadmap for 2009
The major Firebird version currently in development is v.2.5. Its feature set is being finalized at the moment in preparation for entering the Beta stage of development. The start of the Beta cycle will be accompanied by a "feature freeze" rule. The v.2.5 cycle has presented more challenges than usual in the areas of debugging and testing, due to more significant technological rework in the multi-threading part than we expected. The effect has been some degree of slippage from the original schedule. Once the v.2.5 Beta cycle is under way, we begin the development of the next major version - v.3.0. Some features for this release are already implemented by various developers in private source code trees, so these changes are awaiting mergers into the HEAD branch as soon as it is declared open for new development, planned for January. The addition of other features will follow, with appropriate discussions in the architecture and development mailing lists. Initial but still unstable snapshot builds for public review should appear soon after the development process has started. February 2009 will be the fifth anniversary of the Firebird 1.5 release. At that point, it will be more than two years since Firebird 2.0 and almost a year since Firebird 2.1. The next release from the 1.5.x branch (v.1.5.6) will be also the last one released by the project. It does not mean that this branch is no longer supported. Any subsequent releases, should they be needed, will be available from IBPhoenix on a commercial basis. The Firebird Project's resources for development, QA and documentation will be dedicated to newer releases. More recent Firebird versions (namely: v.2.0.x and v.2.1.x) are still being maintained by the project and appropriate new bugfix releases are expected in 2009. For more details about the anticipated releases, read on. |
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