We are happy to announce that today Embarcadero has released a new update of its InterBase flagship database engine, InterBase 2020 Update 7. With this release, the company continues to improve the product’s quality and usability.
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InterBase Installer Update
In this release, we have updated the installer technology used to install InterBase Server editions on both Windows and Linux, to offer a more robust and modern installation experience.
In addition to the core installer engine, we are now embedding the 64-bit version of the Eclipse Temurin by Adoptium OpenJDK JRE 21.0.6, used by the installer and some internal Embarcadero tools. This runs seamlessly on the 64-bit version of InterBase, available on both Windows and Linux platforms.
Considering that Adoptium OpenJDK JRE 21.0.6 is 64-bit only, if you need to install InterBase 2020 Update 7 Server editions on a 32-bit version of Windows or Linux, please refer to the information on docwiki before you install it.
InterBase 2020 Update 7 also includes enhancements for performing silent installs of the patch/update installer on Windows, for scripted automated installs.
General Quality Improvements
InterBase 2020 Update 7 also includes stability fixes for InterBase server core and tools (including the IBConsole client application) developed to enhance customer experience and long term uninterrupted use. Relevant changes include:
- Enhanced the IBConsole Interactive SQL results screen when returning a null or empty string, ensuring you can still see the result even if no data is returned.
- Improved the IBConsole Monitor Servers feature and Performance Monitoring content when saving to a file to include complete logs, making it easier to reproduce a specific scenario.
- Address a specific issue resulting in an error when selecting from a view with UNIONs
ADO.NET and Python Drivers Updated Recently
It’s also worth noting that we recently updated the ADO.NET drivers available on GitHub and in the NuGet package repository to version 10.0.3. More information at the following links:
- https://github.com/Embarcadero/IB.NETDataProvider
- https://www.nuget.org/packages/InterBaseSql.Data.InterBaseClient/
- https://www.nuget.org/packages/InterBaseSql.EntityFrameworkCore.InterBase/
We have also recently updated the open source InterBase Driver for Python, to enable BOOLEAN support. This is now available on GitHub. You can find it at https://github.com/Embarcadero/InterBasePython.
What is InterBase?
InterBase is a powerful, zero-administration, small footprint database engine that can power your server and even run on your mobile devices as an embedded database. InterBase 2020 added a number of new features, including tablespaces support for InterBase server, new OS platform support for embedded versions, enhanced performance monitoring, SQL optimizations and more.
You can find more information on InterBase 2020 at the following links:
- The product page on the Embarcadero company website, https://www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase
- The product documentation site, https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/InterBase/2020/en/Main_Page
- The Update 7 Release Notes on DocWiki at: https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/InterBase/2020/en/What%27s_New_in_InterBase_2020_Update_7
If you are an existing customer, the new release of the product, including Server and ToGo Editions, are available on https://my.embarcadero.com. You can download the patch kits or the complete installers for Update 7, for both Windows and Linux; and, the multi-platform ToGo Edition kit. The InterBase Developer Edition is also updated to the latest, and is available at https://www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase/developer/free-download
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