FirebirdSQL/firebird v5.0.0-RC2

Firebird 5.0.0 RC2

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New features and improvements

• Allow to configure Firebird in POSIX using relative directories with options --with-fb* (#7918)
• Add backward compatibility option that disables joins transformation (#7910)
• Performance issue with time zones (#7854)
• Difficulty returning the product version with the legacy connection (#7819)
• Extend RDB$GET_CONTEXT('SYSTEM', '***') with other info from MON$ATTACHMENTS (#7818)
• Don't update database-level statistics on every page cache operation (#7814)
• Improve SKIP LOCKED implementation (#7810)
• Update Windows distribution with new zlib version 1.3 (released 2023-08-18) (#7755)

More details can be found in the CHANGELOG.

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