Hi all,

After a month of semi-public testing, the first public Alpha release of
Firebird 1.5 (only Windows version is available, other platforms should
follow shortly) is available for download. As you may know, the 1.5
release is the first version based on new, cleaned and improved C++
source code tree with many new features and bugs fixed. Complete list of
major changes beyond the 1.0 version is quite long, and you can read it
at our web site (and it's just a starter for what's in pipeline :-).

Don't forget that this release is an Alpha! It may blow up to your face,
but it may also work better than you expect from an alpha-quality release
(our measures are quite hard, so an Alpha may work better than many
production versions). Anyway, use it only for testing, not for production
systems. Although this release have not (yet) an installer and the
documentation is brief, you should not have any problems to get it
running and taste the flavour of new version.

We'd like release new alpha builds often, so check our web site regularly
for updates.

We're eager to hear from you about your experience (good or bad) with it.
Please send your reports to the Firebird-devel mailing list (or
newsgroup). Don't forget that your feedback will help us to move forward
faster!

More information: http://www.firebirdsql.org

Best regards
There is nothing wrong with InterBase
that Firebird can't fix for you
http://www.firebirdsql.org