New features
- Pool of external connections (CORE-5990)
- Built-in cryptographic functions (CORE-5970)
- Statement level read consistency in read-committed transactions (CORE-5953)
- Add support of batch insert and update operations (CORE-5951)
- Support backup of encrypted databases (CORE-5808)
- Implement FILTER-clause for aggregate functions (CORE-5768)
- Add builtin functions FIRST_DAY and LAST_DAY (CORE-5620)
- Connection compressed/encrypted status in MON$ATTACHMENTS table (CORE-5536)
- Built-in logical replication (CORE-2022)
- Ability to retrieve current UTC/GMT timestamp (CORE-909)
- Support for time zones (CORE-694)