Added

• Include GSS plugin into standard edition. RS-202291.
• Collect network statistics and make it available for the user applications. FB-8310.
• New ISQL commands to show wire statistics.
• Aggregate transaction counters in aggtrace. RS-202832.

Improved

• Add AUTO RELEASE TEMP BLOBID transaction option. FB-8323.
• Don't allow to change FW mode while database has connections. RS-86760.
• File description correction. RS-88298.
• Add information about page type and table id. RS-153607.
• Add option to replace backup file when backup is run via service manager. RS-201698.
• Use a 64bit counter for the records written during the backup. FB-8319.
• Wire protocol improvement: prefetch blob info and some data when open blob. FB-8307.
• Add hostname to the system log. RS-149731.
• Allow use of dash ('-') in SIMILAR TO pattern outside of character classes.
• Refactor license plugin. RS-202283.

Fixed

• Add "-b" switch on service manager's db name backup isc_tag processing. RS-203185.
• Reimplement json path parser to be able to set methods after filter. RS-183412.
• Error: "Invalid clumplet buffer structure: buffer end before end of clumplet - clumplet too long (77779)" when using trusted auth. FB-8336.
• Make JSON_TABLE metadata in pass2 to avoid error in combination with "WITH". RS-203339.
• Fix buffer overflow using string_view.
• Crash of fbclient.dll on Windows. FB-8331.
• Make automatic online re-initialization reliable. FB-8324.
• Fix argv number check for -zip defaults. RS-203126.
• Return warnings about typos in numeric literals. RS-175682.
• Fixed cardinality mistake for invariant booleans.
• Crash at database restore due to failed system call. FB-8315.
• Fix incorrect active status when disconnect a synced replica on error with disable_on_error = false. RS-191654.
• Put isc_info_end into response buffer despite of its presence in info items.
• Could not execute query (select from view with nested view). FB-5654.
• Make replication.conf readable and writable only for reddatabase user/group. RS-201548.
• Remove usage of old internal flags in JSON_OBJECT. RS-201584.
• Wrong results using minvalue/maxvalue in join condition. FB-8304.
• Missing elapsed time for COMPILE events in the trace log. RS-201410.
• Server crashes with invalid value inside time_format trace configuration option. RS-201408.
• Incorrect result of index list scan for a composite index, the second segment of which is a text field with COLLATE UNICODE_CI. FB-8214.
• Rework fix for: Unique scan is incorrectly reported in the explained plan for unique index and IS NULL predicate. FB-8290.
• Fix missing synchronization of the shared monitoring data.
• Fix incorrect database recovery after a crash during "END BACKUP". RS-170448.
• Add a flag to prohibit recursive entry into monitoring in dumpAttachment. RS-204126.
• Remove query in AST handler to avoid race when clearinq statement cache. RS-144010.
• Downgrade of int128 and decfloat types. RS-206661.