FDB release 0.8.5 is out:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb/0.8.5

Highlights for this release:
- Support for Firebird stream BLOBs (see ReleaseNotes for details)
- Fix for PYFB-17 and PYFB-18 (see our JIRA tracker for details)
- Fixes for automatic unicode conversions + refactoring
- Some optimizations
- Documentation (stub, from KInterbasDB 3.3.0)

Target for next release: Documentation

best regards
Pavel Cisar
IBPhoenix