  ***************************
  * v2.1.3
  ***************************

    * Bugfix CORE-2564
        Bus error when working with the monitoring tables on RISC machines
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-2563
        Possible DoS attack using the malformed packet sent into the connection port
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-2550
        Bus error when working with DB_KEY on big-endian machines
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-2531
        The famous "cannot transliterate" error may be thrown when selecting data from the monitoring tables
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-2483
        Database permanent pool may get corrupted when working with monitoring tables
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-2482
        Monitoring tables data collection is unstable when attaching or detaching database
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-2475
        External table data not visible to other sessions in Classic
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Khorsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2449
        Unexpected "lock conflict" error can be thrown instead of other (expected) exception
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-2444
        The engine could hang when multiple attachments register their interest in events simultaneously
        and free space in the events table is exhausted
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Khorsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2441
        Server crashes on UPDATE OR INSERT statement
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-2437
        Buffer overflow on client when delivering events
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-2416
        AV preparing a query with aggregate over derived table
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Khorsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2415
        Firebird crashes when out of temporary space
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-2411
        Optimizer chooses slower plan in v2.0.5/v2.1.2 as compared to v2.0.4/v2.1.1
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-2397
        Database corruption may happen after dropping two different indexes within the same transaction
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Khorsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2368
        Access violation after the isc_cancel_events() call if event was not found
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Khorsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2355
        Incorrect handling of LOWER/UPPER when result string shrinks in terms of byte length
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-2354
        "fb_lock_print -ia" output is not flushed to a file between iterations
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-2348 
        More problems with transaction numbers overflowing 32-bit signed integer and corrupting database
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Khorsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2340
        Bugcheck 258 (page slot not empty) could occurs under high concurrent load
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Khorsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2320
        Complex recursive query may produce not all rows
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Khorsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2313
        INF_* functions may invalidate the whole output buffer
        with isc_info_truncated at the beginning due to a boundary condition
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2311
        Possible memory leak in WITH RECURSIVE query
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Khorsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2306
        fbserver terminates abnormally when thread start failed
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-2291
        Bugcheck 284 (cannot restore singleton select data)
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Khorsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2282
        *truncate UDFs are broken for numbers below -1
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2281
        *round UDFs are broken for negative numbers
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2272
        Server starts returning garbage when killing events connection attempt
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-2270
        ISQL consumes all memory and crashes when running in zlogin console
      Contributor(s):
        Jaroslaw Swierczynski <swiergot at gmail.com>
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-2249
        Error while building Firebird 2.1 on FreeBSD 7.0
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-2247
        Message and descriptor buffers are not aligned properly (RISC machines only)
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-2245
        Error on restoring a database with long exception texts from backup
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1961
        Bugcheck 210 (page in use during flush) is thrown during database validation
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>
        Roman Simakov <roman.simakov at red-soft.biz>

    * Bugfix CORE-1923
        "instsvc remove" returns 1 when succefully executed
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1690
        Arithmetic exception, numeric overflow, or string truncation in UTF8 tables
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1647
        Close external table's file even if it used by some cached (inactive) requests
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Khorsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1607
        Correlated subquery is optimized badly if it depends on the union stream
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Improvement CORE-2376
        Change default value for the authentication method configuration parameter
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Improvement CORE-2316
        Throttling NBackup on large databases
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>


  ***************************
  * v2.1.2
  ***************************

    * Fixed unregistered bug
        Issue with @prefix@ in aliases.conf on MacOS
      Contributor(s):
        Paul Beach <pbeach at ibphoenix.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-2329
        Significant performance degradation in v2.1.2 RC1
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-2326
        Access violation when committing a new view while trigger on rdb$relations is in place
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-2271
        GFIX reports the database ownership error way too late
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-2266
        NBACKUP database locking not working correctly
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2242
        The engine incorrectly fills BPB
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-2241
        Wrong number of records fetched when using index
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2234
        Sometimes terminated worker processes in Classic are still considered being alive
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-2227
        Problem with column names with accents and triggers
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-2223
        Multiple bugs in GBAK when working with ACLs
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-2222
        AV in the engine when storing text blob with transliteration blob filter
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2221
        Attach to any DB fails after modification of access rights
        of security2.fdb from 0660 to 0666
      Contributor(s):
        Paul Beach <pbeach at ibphoenix.com>
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-2209
        Very slow processing of the monitoring requests under high load
        and blocking other activity during that time
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-2184
        Superserver hangs when multiple clients create tables simultaneously
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-2182
        It's impossible to drop an existing UDF which name overlaps with a new built-in function name
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-2173
        Server crashes after abnormal disconnect with open ExecuteStatement
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-2171
        Column MON$CALLER_ID of table MON$CALL_STACK reports invalid IDs
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-2157
        fbclient does not have the libpthread dependency
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-2151
        Temporary directory path with spaces in the middle is wrongly truncated
        from the rightmost space
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2137
        Database restore may crash the server when DummyPacketInterval is set
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-2118
        UPDATE OR INSERT with subquery used in the MATCHING part doesn't insert record
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-2117
        Incorrect ROW_COUNT value with indexed retrieval and subquery
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-2108
        Error "get_free_slot() failed" reported
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2098
        View over global temporary table
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2093
        Superserver startup fails on Solaris 64-bit
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-2087
        RemoteBindAddress = hostname instead of IP address is silently ignored
        and server binds to all interfaces (nothing in either firebird.log or syslog)
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-2084
        Services API security problem
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-2078
        Suboptimal join plan if there are selective non-indexed predicates involved
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-2077
        Signal TERM in Classic Server 2.1 for Linux
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-2073
        Expression indices bug: incorrect result for the inverted boolean
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-2065
        Client library is not in default dynamic loader search paths
      Contributor(s):
        Paul Beach <pbeach at ibphoenix.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-2055
        Buffer overflow in fbclient
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-2053
        Computed expressions may be optimized badly if used
        inside the RETURNING clause of the INSERT statement
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-2050
        Performance regression: too many semop() system calls
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2049
        Performance regression: too many sigprocmask() system calls
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-2045
        References to non-existent system fields with blr_field are not resolved to NULL
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-2039
        Domain-level CHECK constraints wrongly process NULL values
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-2033
        Unresolved symbol _Unwind_GetIP in the client library
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-2031
        NULL in the first record in a condition on RDB$DB_KEY
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-2026
        Problem with a read-only marked database and Firebird 2.1
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2017
        I/O statistics for stored procedures is not accounted in monitoring tables
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-2008
        NOT NULL procedure parameters
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-2000
        Lock manager may report false deadlocks under high load
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1984
        Lock manager may report false deadlocks if one of deadlock participants
        waits with permitted timeout
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1983
        Out of memory condition in OS causes SEGV
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1982
        Simultaneous backups or restores could interfere each with other using the Services API
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1972
        Non-SYSDBA user can change FW mode of a database
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1970
        Lock conversion denied (215) error may occur
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1963
        Possible server crash on commit when granting/revoking privileges
        from multiple connections simultaneously
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1962
        Incorrect extraction of MILLISECONDs
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1958
        Bugcheck 179 (decompression overran buffer) when attempting to update
        the same record multiple times
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1957
        Long ACLs truncated
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1944
        Monitoring tables contain wrong data on big-endian machines
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1930
        Possible AV in engine if procedure was altered to have no outputs
        and dependent procedures was not recompiled
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1926
        MON$DATABASE returns outdated transaction counters
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1922
        Trusted authentication doesn't work with the Services API
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1919
        Memory corruptions in EXECUTE STATEMENT may crash the server
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1909
        Garbage in firebird.log on linux/amd64
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1843
        GBAK with service manager doesn't allow path with space
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1596
        Bug in CsConvert::convert
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1506
        Server crash with isc_dsql_execute_immediate and zero length string
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Improvement CORE-2243
        Make Firebird distribution on Windows easier 
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Improvement CORE-2233
        Allow non-SYSDBA users to monitor not only their current attachment
        but other their attachments as well
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Improvement CORE-2200
        Extremely slow executing a cross join of 3 tables in Firebird 2.x
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>


  ***************************
  * v2.1.1
  ***************************

    * Bugfix CORE-1890
        Database monitoring process may hang under high load
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1887
        Newly created databases have wrong access rights
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1885
        Server crashes after CREATE COLLATION statement on Posix 64-bit
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1884
        Random crashes using stored procedures with expressions as default values of input parameters
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1881
        Database monitoring may crash the server or badly affect its page locking logic
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1876
        Incremental backups with NBACKUP are broken
      Contributor(s):
        Nickolay Samofatov <skidder at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1875
        Error/crash on script with CURRENT_DATE
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1868
        Server crashes in isc_dsql_free_statement()
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1864
        SELECT operator does not work in ISQL (big-endian hosts only)
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>
        Paul Beach <pbeach at ibphoenix.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-1859
        Arithmetic overflow or division by zero has occurred in MAX function
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1854
        Value of CURRENT_USER may be not in upper case when using Unix OS authentication
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1851
        Applications using fbembed hang during the process termination if there are open connections left
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1845
        Some standard calls show server installation directory to regular users
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1844
        Valgrind often reports "Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)" in check_status_vector()
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1841
        If some VIEW used derived tables and long table names\aliases,
        it is possible to overflow RDB$VIEW_RELATIONS.RDB$CONTEXT_NAME
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1840
        Small memory leak per every DDL execution
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1839
        Server crashes sorting by field, calculated using a recursive CTE
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1838
        SET STATISTICS INDEX on index of GTT may wrongly change index id
        by maximum available number for the database page size
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1830
        Possible index corruption with multiply updates of the same record in the same transaction
        and usage of savepoints
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1826
        changeRunUser.sh and restoreRootRunUser.sh scripts does not change run user in init.d scripts
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1819
        More efficient solution for CORE-1300 (Lower level index pages is missed from parent page)
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1817
        The RelaxedAliasChecking parameter has no effect concerning RDB$DB_KEY
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1812
        Index is not used for some date/time expressions in dialect 1
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1810
        Issue with usernames containing the '.' character
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1807
        fbserver is assigned to a non-canonical port after abnormal termination
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1802
        Wrong maximum key size using PXW_CSY collation
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1798
        RDB$DB_KEY evaluates to NULL in INSERT ... RETURNING
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1793
        Server crashes preparing a query with unused parametrized CTE
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1781
        LIKE, STARTING WITH and CONTAINING may incorrectly return true
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1775
        Bad performance of the security checking during prepare
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1731
        Sometimes engine may "hang" using 100% CPU load and no IO activity for the few minutes
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1421
        SuperServer can't shutdown immediately after shutdown request after failed login attempt
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1357
        DummyPacketInterval mechanism broken
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Improvement CORE-1889
        Security database has FW mode OFF, making it corrupted under some circumstances
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>


  ***************************
  * v2.1 Final
  ***************************

    * Bugfix CORE-1820
        Setup program doesn't detect a running server
      Contributor(s):
        Paul Reeves <preeves at ibphoenix.com>
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>
 
    * Bugfix CORE-1818
        Temporary files used for temporary page spaces are not deleted after use on Posix platform
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>
 
    * Bugfix CORE-1680
        "gsec display" only shows some first users when there are many users (>50) in the security database  
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>


  ***************************
  * v2.1 Release Candidate 2
  ***************************

    * Bugfix CORE-1746
        Expression index can be created while doing inserts into table
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1729
        Server process terminates when attempting to select the MON$ data
        against a heavily loaded system (many concurrent connections)
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1728
        Monitoring tables do not work after fresh linux install
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1726
        Failure in isc_service_start()
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1724
        Common table expressions cannot be used in computed columns and quantified predicates (IN / ANY / ALL)
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1716
        Wrong variable initialization in recursive procedures
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1715
        Incorrect "key size exceeds implementation restriction for index" error
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1713
        Distinct with blob fields
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>
      Note(s):
        This change restores the legacy behavior of DISTINCT / UNION / GROUP BY and ORDER BY operations.
        Please beware that they may produce incorrect result set, because the ordering / distinct
        is performed using blob IDs instead of the blob contents.
        It implies that changes CORE-859 and CORE-1530 are rolled back.

    * Bugfix CORE-1694
        Bug in create/alter database trigger (with Russian comment)
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>


  ***************************
  * v2.1 Release Candidate 1
  ***************************

    * Performance optimizations
        A number of internal optimizations were done in order to minimize
        the performance degradation introduced along with the new features
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1681
        Garbage data in the incoming remote packet may crash the server
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1680
        "gsec display" only shows some first users when there are many users (>50) in security database
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1679
        Garbage bytes in isc_service_query() output
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1677
        Floor & ceiling functions return wrong results with exact numeric arguments
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1657
        AV with long inactive read-only read-commited transaction
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1651
        False isc_req_sync error may be reported by fbclient to the client application
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1649
        AV when recursive query used MERGE JOIN in execution plan
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1648
        RDB$TYPES doesn't list types for database triggers
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1644
        Compilation error on GCC 4.1.1
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1642
        Non-privileged monitoring reports wrong attachment data
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1641
        CREATE TRIGGER causes two trigger object copies to exist in the metadata cache
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1637
        Problem in GSEC
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1624
        MERGE works incorrectly with parameters in MATCHING clause
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1610
        Full shutdown causes database corruption
        if it happens when SuperServer is running a query modifying data
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1603
        Possible buffer overflow with long user name
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1602
        Domain admins are not mapped to SYSDBA by the trusted authentication
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1601
        Server crashes inside the page validation routine
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1599
        RPM libstdc++ version dependency
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1597
        GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLEs allowed to be created in ODS less than 11.1
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1594
        Bug in CsConvert::convert()
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>
        Dmitry Kovalenko <dmitry.lipetsk at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-1593
        Full domain user name can be longer than 31 char(for trusted authentication)
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1589
        Start-stop script for SuperServer on Linux does not always stop service
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>
        Emil Totev <emilt at tot-consult.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-1584
        Server crashes or bugchecks when inserting into monitoring tables
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1582
        ABS() rounds NUMERIC values
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1579
        Corrupt BLOB in UDF if followed by a char* that is a timestamp
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1574
        Multi-file database problems
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1567
        Selecting from MON$STATEMENTS yields an error and an exit() call
        with Firebird Embedded 2.1 Beta 2
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1562
        Shutdown does not kill high load query connections
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1561
        select from mon$statements lockup
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1560
        NULLIF crashes when first parameter is constant empty string
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1551
        AV when all statements are cancelled
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1549
        Subquery-based predicates are not evaluated early in the join order
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1548
        Incorrect error code in GFIX
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1543
        Security bug in trusted authentication
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1540
        Fatal lock manager error restoring backup
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1539
        select * from rdb$triggers where rdb$trigger_source like 'CHECK%'
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1537
        NBackup creates difference file in bad place
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1533
        JOIN on first record of ordered derived table returns wrong record
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1530
        UNION DISTINCT accept BLOB fields
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1528
        Functions DATEDIFF, ABS(integer const) don't work in dialect 1
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1522
        Inconsistent DATEDIFF() behaviour
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1519
        AV in isc_dsql_fetch()
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1514
        Many new 2.1 built-in functions have incorrect NULL semantics
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1510
        Bad XSQLVAR [NULL flags] for (2*COALESCE(NULL,NULL))
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>
		Dmitry Kovalenko <dmitry.lipetsk at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-1509
        Conversion from double to varchar inserts trailing spaces
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1501
        Wrong access to SLONG data in dsql_nod
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1500
        Data in EXECUTE STATEMENT internal buffer is not aligned correctly
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1493
        ISQL doesn't mangle blob filter and udf information with embedded quotes
        when extracting a script
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1492
        BLOB isn't compatible with [VAR]CHAR in COALESCE
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1489
        DATEADD works with NULL arguments wrongly
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1481
        GFIX may report false errors when using in-memory metadata
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1375
        Wrong mapping for 0x212C in cs_gb2312.h
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1199
        Internal GDS software consistency check (CCH_precedence: block marked (212))
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-374
        Restore with SPs in 'COMPUTED BY' fields fails
      Contributor(s):
        Nickolay Samofatov <skidder at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Improvement CORE-1623
        Improve memory consumption of HASH(blob)
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Improvement CORE-1581
        Support physical backups when database is located on raw device
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Improvement CORE-1569
        Make the second parameter of the ROUND function optional
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Improvement CORE-1558
        Help people get core files in case of abort() on BUGCHECK
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Improvement CORE-1546
        Improve random number quality of builtin RAND
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>
        Nickolay Samofatov <skidder at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Improvements CORE-1490, CORE-1497
        Change keywords used in DATEADD/DATEDIFF functions (expanded syntax)
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Improvement CORE-548
        Help on Firebird setup command line switches
      Contributor(s):
        Paul Reeves <preeves at ibphoenix.com>

    * New feature CORE-1625
        Implement new setting to relax strict SQL standard's alias checking rules
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * New feature CORE-1511
        POSITION(<string_expr_1>, <string_expr_2> [, <start_pos>])
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>


  **************
  * v2.1 Beta 2
  **************

    * Bugfix CORE-1485
        AV when loading messages in msg.fdb
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1484
        AV in fbintl
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1476
        Forced writes do not work on Linux
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1470
        Server crashes with secondary file name > 127 characters
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1468
        Database corruption possible when database file extension and read\write activity
        are performed simultaneously
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1467
        Error 'database shutdown' after canceling statement via MON$STATEMENTS
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1466
        Substring of multi-byte BLOBs can fail
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1465
        ISQL ignores explicit constraint name when it's confused with an internal, automatic name
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1457
        Server crashes attempting to deliver events for the just disconnected session
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1456
        Wrong events delivery in the case of concurrent XNET connections
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1455
        Crash in fbclient after unsuccessful user management API call
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1452
        Client library crashes when attempting to process an event received just prior to disconnection
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1451
        Using RDB$DB_KEY in SQL's WHERE section while selecting from a procedure crashes the server
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1447
        Buffer overrun when querying for database info on very long path
        through isc_database_info() API call
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1446
        Problem with UNICODE collations from fbintl when using system ICU
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1443
        Embedded engine may hang application on exit if no database access was performed
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1441
        Query cancellation feature cannot interrupt a long fetch
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1440
        Dangerous lack of validation for transaction options
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1436
        Outer joins don't work properly with the MON$ tables
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1434
        Incorrect result with EXECUTE STATEMENT and VARCHAR columns
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1431
        Greek characters in cp1251 vs uppercasing
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1430
        Access Violation in fbclient.dll if statement prepared and executed right after events was registered
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1428
        Incorrect timestamp substraction in 3 dialect when result is negative number
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1419
        Wrong current timestamp evaluation for selectable procedures
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1418
        Races when starting and quickly shutting down blocking AST thread
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1417
        Error "Invalid BLOB ID" in IBX insert operation
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1416
        Incorrect transaction params order in TPB is accepted without returning an error
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1408
        UDF names using reserved words are extracted without double quotes
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1403
        Server crashes if a few events are being registered simultaneously
        by the client connected via XNET
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1401
        Global temporary table instance may pick up not all indices
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1400
        GSTAT doesn't support port number in connection string
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1399
        GSTAT does not use RemoteServicePort option in firebird.conf
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1398
        GSTAT: 'localhost' is case-sensitive in Windows
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1397
        Possible vulnerability in the remote server
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1395
        Few problems with domains's check constraints
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1388
        Cannot attach to remote service manager if remote engine version is less than 2.0
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1384
        LIKE doesn't work correctly with collations using SPECIALS-FIRST=1
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1380
        I/O errors after changing FW for the already attached database
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1379
        Invalid parameter type when using it in CHAR_LENGTH function
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1378
        Domain names and charset issues
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1373
        Incorrect result of recursive CTE query when recursive member's SELECT list
        contains expression using self-referenced fields
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1372
        isc_dsql_fetch() called after isc_commit_transaction() doesn't raise an error
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1371
        Execute block fails within execute statement
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1370
        Memory leak when using CTE within procedure
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1369
        Downgrade from ODS11.1 misses default values of procedure parameters
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1361
        Index operations for global temporary tables are not visible for the active connection
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1359
        Server crashes at the first operation with the monitoring tables
        if the file system lacks the necessary permissions for the shared-memory file
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1358
        Operations with MON$STATEMENTS throw "cannot transliterate" error
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1349
        Remote interface doesn't validate the client supplied message length against the message format length
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1347
        Unexpected "cannot transliterate" error
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1344
        Error "request depth exceeded" when restoring complex metadata
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1339
        Metadata charset upgrade script generates garbage in descriptions
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1338
        Error 335544721 when selecting view with round
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1334
        Joins with NULL RDB$DB_KEY crash the server
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1332
        Put the connection charset in sqlscale of blobs when appropriate
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1331
        Charset transliterations don't work with EXECUTE STATEMENT
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1330
        Double semaphore locking when query the monitoring tables during long fetches
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1312
        A remote attacker can check, if a file is present in the system, running firebird server
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1261
        ISQL ignore index and ordering in UNIQUE CONSTRAINT for generate metadate script
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Improvement CORE-1389
        Indexed MIN/MAX aggregates produce three index reads instead of the expected one indexed read
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Improvement CORE-1387
        Add MILLISECONDS handling to EXTRACT, DATEADD and DATEDIFF functions
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Improvement CORE-1386
        Generated columns
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Improvement CORE-1340
        Add a scale parameter to the TRUNC function
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * New feature CORE-1381, CORE-1480
        Allow Firebird to bypass filesystem cache for database files
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * New feature CORE-1366
        French insensitive collation FR_FR_CI_AI
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * New feature CORE-1324
        Japanese character set CP943C
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * New feature CORE-663
        EXTRACT(WEEK FROM DATE)
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

  **************
  * v2.1 Beta 1
  **************

    * Bugfix CORE-1318
        Error "Identifier ... is too long using multiple (nested) derived tables
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1315
        Data type unknown
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1306
        Indices not used for views
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1303
		Infinite loop in SS remote listener
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1300
		Lower level index pages is missed from parent page
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1299
		Wrong index entries order at non-leaf b-tree pages
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1298
		BTR\garbage_collect code can make a deadlock in a page cache
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1292
        Can't create table using long username and UTF8 as attachment charset
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1291
		Can't transliterate character set when look at procedure text in database 
		just created from script (and thus in ODS 11.1)
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>
		
    * Bugfix CORE-1286
        Bug with COMPUTED BY fields
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1276
		Sometime INET error reported as 0 in firebird.log instead of real error code
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>
		
    * Bugfix CORE-1271
        Creation of invalid procedures/triggers allowed
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1267
        Small bug with default value for domains in PSQL
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1256
        Table columns hide destination variables of RETURNING INTO
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1253
        LIST(DISTINCT) concatenate VARCHAR values as CHAR
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1249
        Full shutdown mode doesn't work on Classic if there are other connections to the database
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1248
        Incorrect timestamp arithmetics when one of the operands is negative number
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1244
        Server crash on "select * from <recursive CTE>"
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1240
        Any task, using libfbclient, hangs on exit (Darwin PPC)
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1237
        GBAK does not create backup in service_mgr mode if there is no space on disk, no error reported
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1228
        Database often became corrupted after an out of disk space condition
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1227
        LIST() function seems not work if used twice or more in a query  
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1223
        Wrong message in firebird.log on Open SuSe Linux 10.2 : Open file limit increased from 1024 to 0
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1218
        isc_dsql_info(isc_info_sql_stmt_type) doesn't set isc_info_end at the end of the passed user's buffer
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1215
        Wrong SELECT query results using index to evaluate >= condition
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1207
        FB embedded requires extra OS privileges
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1205
        v2.1 GBAK crashes the v2.0.x server when attempting to backup a database  
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1196
        Long SQL statements break TCP/IP connection
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1183
        View cannot be created if its WHERE clause contains IN <subquery> with a procedure reference  
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1175
        Error "Data type unknown" when any UDF argument is a built-in function
        containing a DSQL parameter reference
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1174
        GBAK restores NULL rdb$description in rdb$functions as blob (0, 0)
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1167
        CHARACTER SET GBK is not installed
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1165
        WHEN <list of exceptions> tracks only the dependency on the first exception in PSQL
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1162
        Problem altering numeric field type
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1153
        Activating index change "STARTING" working as "LIKE" in join condition
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1151
        Error "database file not available" when running NBackup
      Contributor(s):
        Nickolay Samofatov <skidder at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-981
        x86_64 RPM package missing "provides"  
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-949
        Restore with UDF in 'COMPUTED BY' fields fails  
      Contributor(s):
        Dimitry Sibiryakov <sd at ibphoenix.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-885
        It is impossible to take away rights on update of a column
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-856
        Unable to set FName, MName, LName fields in the security database to blank
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-703
        Using DEL-Key in isql under Linux gives "~"
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-132
        Restore fails on external table  
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-107
        Instance of fb_lock_mgr runs after build
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Improvement CORE-1280
        Verify well-formedness of text blobs
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Improvement CORE-1277
        Automatic transliteration of text blobs
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Improvement CORE-1232
        Wrong behaviour of services manager during backup/restore operations
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Improvement CORE-1229
        Allocate disk space by more than one page at a time
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Improvement CORE-1226
        Allow RETURNING in INSERT...SELECT, UPDATE and DELETE
      See also:
        /doc/README.returning
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Improvement CORE-1213
        CURRENT OF is now allowed for views
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Improvement CORE-1179
        "CH" and "LL" are not separate spanish alphabet letters since 1994
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Improvement CORE-1178
        Standarize ES_ES_CI_AI collation
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Improvement CORE-1170
        Conversion of DDL source from client charset to metadata charset  
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Improvement CORE-1169
        Conversion of temporary blobs to the destination blob type when materializing  
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Improvement CORE-961
        Free external tables as soon as they're no longer in use by user requests
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Improvement CORE-867
        GBAK should change param0 to not show username/password in ps axf
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Improvement CORE-787
        Optionally disable non-SYSDBA use of Services API
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Feature CORE-1235
        NATURAL JOIN and JOIN...USING
      See also:
        /doc/README.joins.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Added a wide set of new built-in functions
        ABS, ACOS, ASCII_CHAR, ASCII_VAL, ASIN, ATAN, ATAN2,
        BIN_AND, BIN_OR, BIN_SHL, BIN_SHR, BIN_XOR,
        CEIL, COS, COSH, COT, DATEADD, DATEDIFF, DECODE,
        EXP, FLOOR, GEN_UUID, HASH, LEFT, LN, LOG, LOG10, LPAD,
        MAXVALUE, MINVALUE, MOD, OVERLAY, PI, POSITION, POWER,
        RAND, REPLACE, REVERSE, RIGHT, ROUND, RPAD,
        SIGN, SIN, SINH, SQRT, TAN, TANH, TRUNC
      See also:
        /doc/README.builtin_functions.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>
        Oleg Loa <loa at mail.ru>
        Alexey Karyakin <aleksey.karyakin at mail.ru>


  **************
  * v2.1 Alpha 1
  **************

    * Bugfix CORE-1149
        DoS attack on server using services API
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1145
        Server locks up while attempting to commit a deletion of an expression index
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1142
        Cannot alter generator's comment to the same value
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1120
        Conversion from string to number is not standard compliant
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1112
        Crash when dealing with a string literal longer than 32K
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1098
        Races in cch.cpp, leading to AV during cache_writer startup
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-1073
        SINGULAR buggy when NULLs present
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1058
        ALTER DOMAIN and ALTER TABLE don't allow to change character set
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1056
        A query could produce different results, depending on the presence of an index
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-1039
        Memory statistics does not include the buffer cache size
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1031
        fb_lock_print.exe fails on Windows 2003 R2 / XP SP2
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1009
        Restoring RDB$BASE_FIELD for expression
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-995
        SELECT with FIRST and LEFT JOIN needs excess SORT in plan
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-986
        Non-ASCII quoted identifiers are not converted to metadata (UNICODE_FSS) charset
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-968
        Lost connection with Firebird Server
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-967
        SQL with incorrect characters (outside the ASCII range) may be processed wrongly
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-965
        Many aggregate functions within a single select list may cause a server crash
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-954
        Server crashes while grouping by PSQL variable
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-945
        Bad error message when tring to create a foreign key to a non-existent table
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-929
        Bug in a DSQL parameter being casted and used in arithmetics
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-925
        ALL predicate works incorrectly for some subqueries
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-908
        Garbage in plan output of complex statement
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-900
        Deadlock when attaching simultaneously with services and standard APIs
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-899
        Problems with explicit PSQL cursors in unwanted states
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-896
        SUBSTRING with NULL offset or length doesn't return NULL
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-881
        Singleton is not respected in COMPUTED BY expressions
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-880
        Malformed characters are accepted in character set GB2312
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-878
        Problem when dropping column that is a primary key
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-871
        Incorrect handling of NULL within views - returns 0
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-870
        Engine crashes while trying to backup a logically corrupt database
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-866
        Removing a NOT NULL constraint is not visible until reconnect
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-859
        Sorting is allowed for blobs
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-851
        Field can be used multiple times in multi-segment index definition
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-850
        DYN layer allows to set defaults for computed fields when altering a field
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-847
        Computed field cannot be changed to non-computed using ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN TYPE <datatype>
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-842
        Specific query crashing the server
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-833
        Connection issues with very long hostname
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-347
        Input of invalid dates through DSQL parameters
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-202
        ORDER BY works wrong with collate PT_PT
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Bugfix CORE-200
        Empty column names with aggregate functions
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-152
        Sqlsubtype incorrect on timestamp difference
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-104
        Dropping and recreating a table in the same transaction disables the primary key
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-91
        Recreate and self-referencing indexes
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-87
        Bug in libfbclient under Linux with SA_SIGINFO
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfixes CORE-86, CORE-88 and CORE-99
        Select/join on different datatypes produces undesired results
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-84
        NBACKUP and security
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * QLI crash (unregistered)
        Fix problem with QLI where a crash occurs using the following SQL:
        INSERT INTO relationx SELECT * FROM relationy
      Contributor(s):
        Paul Beach <pbeach at ibphoenix.com>

    * More dependencies (unregistered)
        Fixed untracked collation dependencies in PSQL
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Security fix (unregistered)
        Tricky paths can allow a directory traversal attack bypassing config file
        settings for DB creation dir, for example.
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Various BOF fixes (unregistered)
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Improvement CORE-1266
        Using blob filters in dynamic SQL
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Improvement CORE-1148
        Regular users are prevented from retrieving the server log
        using Services API. This is now allowed for SYSDBA only.
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Improvement CORE-1091
        isc_service_query() should return an alias name instead of
        a full database file name in the case of configured "DatabaseAccess = None"
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Improvement CORE-1071
        Background garbage collector doesn't need to read backversion of active record
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Improvement CORE-1070
        Optimize sparse bitmap operations (set, test and clear) with mostly consecutive values
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Improvement CORE-1069
        Optimize index scan when more than one index scanned and ANDed
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Improvement CORE-979
        Make RDB$DB_KEY in outer joins returns NULL when appropriate
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Improvement CORE-978
        Extend ISQL SHOW SYSTEM command
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Improvement CORE-977
        Put blob charset in XSQLVAR::sqlscale
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Improvement CORE-976
        Synchronization of DSQL metadata cache objects in classic-server
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Improvement CORE-972
        Case-insensitive collation for UTF-8
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Improvement CORE-971
        Improve network protocol performance
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Improvement CORE-970
        Show line/column numbers in PSQL error stack trace
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Improvement CORE-969
        Deprecate page sizes of 1K and 2K as being inefficient
      Note(s):
        This applies to new databases only. Old ones can be attached
        regardless of their page size.
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Improvement CORE-958
        Increase the maximum number of hash slots for the Lock Manager.
      Note(s):
        The new limit is 64K slots (the old one was 2048).
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Improvement CORE-937
        Change default lock manager settings -- increase table memory and number of slots.
      Note(s):
        The default lock table size has been increased to 1MB on all platforms,
        the new default number of hash slots is 1009.
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Improvement CORE-863
        INSERT without values
      Example(s):
        INSERT INTO <table> DEFAULT VALUES [RETURNING <values>]
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Improvement CORE-831
        Column aliases are processed as column names in the view definition
      Example(s):
        CREATE VIEW V_TEST AS
          SELECT ID, COL1 AS CODE, COL2 AS NAME FROM TAB;
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Improvement CORE-779
        Introduced a type flag for stored procedures
      Note(s):
        Column RDB$PROCEDURE_TYPE has been added to the table RDB$PROCEDURES.
        Possible values are:
          - 0 or NULL - legacy procedure (no validation checks are performed)
          - 1 - selectable procedure (the one that contains a SUSPEND statement)
          - 2 - executable procedure (no SUSPEND statement, cannot be selected from)
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Improvement CORE-711
        Make syntax for "CREATE TRIGGER" compliant with SQL2003
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Improvement CORE-673
        instsvc.exe now supports multi-instance installations
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * GBAK improvement (unregistered)
        Now it's possible to use v2.1's GBAK to restore on any FB version
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>

     * INTL improvements (unregistered)
        1) Ability to use ICU charsets through fbintl
        2) UNICODE collation (charset_UNICODE) is available for all fbintl charsets
        3) Collation attributes
        4) CREATE/DROP COLLATION statements
        5) SHOW COLLATION and collation extraction in ISQL
      See also:
        /doc/README.intl.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Feature CORE-1018
        Provide mechanism to get engine version without needing to call API function
      Example(s):
        SELECT RDB$GET_CONTEXT('SYSTEM', 'ENGINE_VERSION')
        FROM RDB$DATABASE
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Feature CORE-975
        Thai character set TIS620
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Feature CORE-964
        Aggregate function LIST (string concatenation)
      See also:
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.list
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Feature CORE-963
        Common table expressions and recursive queries
      See also:
        /doc/README.common_table_expressions
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Feature CORE-962
        Global temporary tables
      See also:
        /doc/README.global_temporary_tables
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Horsun <hvlad at users.sourceforge.net>

    * Feature CORE-864
        Chinese character set GBK
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Feature CORE-815
        UPDATE OR INSERT and MERGE statements
      See also:
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.update_or_insert.txt
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.merge.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Feature CORE-795
        Unicode collations
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Feature CORE-794
        Kill a query on client request
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Features CORE-746, CORE-774 and CORE-1019
        Runtime database monitoring via SQL
      See also:
        /doc/README.monitoring_tables
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Feature CORE-704
        Ctrl-C to be used to cancel interactive ISQL output
      Contributor(s):
        Michal Kubecek <mike at mk-sys.cz>
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Feature CORE-684
        Collations allowed in PSQL parameters and variables
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Features CORE-682 and CORE-819
        Port to Windows 64-bit platform (AMD64 and Intel EM64T)
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Feature CORE-660
        Domains allowed to be used in PSQL parameters and variables
      See also:
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.domains_psql.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

   * Feature CORE-655
        BLOB SUB_TYPE TEXT datatype fully compatible with VAR[CHAR]
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Features CORE-645 and CORE-745
        Database triggers
      See also:
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.db_triggers.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at uol.com.br>

    * Generic cleanup
        STL is removed in favor of the internal class library
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Generic cleanup
        Large amount of ongoing code cleanup and style standardization
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama <cvalde at usa.net>
