Lots of missing features & big bugs were fixed recently .

All of the blockers that were initially mentioned on tracking bug are now fixed.

Lionel mentioned that he added a few more blockers that needs to be fixed until Firebird will be switched by default in LibreOffice Base :

I went over

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=firebird and added a few open bugs to the blocker bug https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/51780

based on their description (and NEW instead of UNCONFIRMED status)

only, without reading the bug log in great detail.

Tamás Bunth (Wastack) agreed that 6 months time frame is more than enough to fix bugs that will appear

I agree, it would be reasonable to wait a half year. Until that we can

fix the already found and the upcoming bugs, solve the backward

incompatibility. Even if those can be solved quickly we can upgrade to

the c++ API.

Another issue is importing old hsqldb databases without java installed