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Hello devart,
It's a snapshot release :
http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/snapshot-builds/

Can we use it with IBDac 5.6.21 ?
Thx

Currently, IBDAC has no support for Firebird 4. We will add support for Firebird 4 when it is officially released. You can download Firebird 4 snapshot build and check IBDAC compatibility with Firebird 4.

Firebird 4.0 Beta 1 is released! See https://firebirdsql.org/en/news/firebir ... r-testing/

I did a quick test with IBDAC 6.3.11. Nothing fancy, just a IBCConnection and a IBCTable, opening table CUSTOMER of the EMPLOYEE demo database using firebird 4 embedded, and it worked. Of course, further testing is necessary, and new datatypes like DECFLOAT or new transaction modes are unlikely to be supported at this time.

We support only the release versions of DBMS since beta versions may contain errors, and the release version may differ a lot from the beta version. Therefore, we will add support for Firebird 4 when it is officially released.

I understand your potential downside is if features and interfaces change and you would have to redo the new code, but we, your clients, have to start developing new features utilizing new data types now. Some of the stuff might require months to code and UX tweaks. We also want to be ready with our new features when 4.0 is ready.
I'm sure reasonable people will not blame you for bugs in beta code. Can you at least implement new data types so we could start using them?

You can write about supporting this functionality on our User Voice forum: https://devart.uservoice.com/forums/104 ... y_id=24461 to speed up the implementation of this functionality.