ADO.NET provider 8.5.0.0 for Firebird is ready

17 Aug 2021 1 mins .NET, C#, Databases in general, Entity Framework, Entity Framework Core, Entity SQL, Firebird, LINQ, SQL, Visual Studio

New version 8.5.0.0 of ADO.NET provider for Firebird is ready for download. This release contains, among other small improvements and fixes, support for Srp256 (and quite a few related changes, like support for SPB version 3) and fix for performance regression for synchronous code paths introduced in 8.0.0.0.

Overview of all the changes can be found here.

You can get the bits from NuGet FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient, FirebirdSql.EntityFrameworkCore.Firebird and EntityFramework.Firebird.

Some features in this release were sponsored by BMI Leisure and Vertec.

Jiří Činčura is .NET, C# and Firebird expert. He focuses on data and business layers, language constructs, parallelism, databases and performance. For almost two decades he contributes to open-source, i.e. FirebirdClient. He works as a senior software engineer for Microsoft. Frequent speaker and blogger at www.tabsoverspaces.com.