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  * v3.0 Alpha 1
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    * Bugfix CORE-4144
        Error "context already in use (BLR error)" when preparing a query with UNION
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Khorsun <hvlad at users.sf.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-4137
        Wrong metadata output script generate by ISQL / CHARACTER SETISO8859_1 syntax error
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-4136
        Sharp-S character treated incorrectly in UNICODE_CI_AI collation
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-4135
        Sweep blocks establishment of concurrent attachments in SuperServer
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Khorsun <hvlad at users.sf.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-4134
        Race condition when auto-sweep is started
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Khorsun <hvlad at users.sf.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-4074
        Computed by columns and POSITION function
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-4027
        Creating table with computed fields containing "SELECT FIRST" produces corrupted result
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-4018
        Using system domain in procedures arguments/returns cause the SP to be unchangeable
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-4005
        Wrong error message with recursive CTE
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Khorsun <hvlad at users.sf.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-3973
        Original table name and column name and owner missing from SQLDA for aliased column in grouped query
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3947
        Wrong results when the column with collation using option (NUMERIC-SORT=1) is in WHERE clause
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3941
        Memory alignment problem with unique expression index
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3929
        Invalid error "attempted update of read-only column" when selecting MINVALUE from list with more than 255 elements
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3894
        Wrong numbers in error message for decreasing char/varchar columns
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3874
        Computed column appears in non-existant rows of left join
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3820
        RDB$TYPES contains duplicate character sets
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3754
        SIMILAR TO works wrongly
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3737
        EXECUTE BLOCK parameters definitions are not respected and may cause wrong behavior related to character sets
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3735
        Unprivileged user can delete from RDB$DATABASE, RDB$COLLATIONS, RDB$CHARACTER_SETS
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-3718
        Client library hangs after unsuccessful connection to remote auxiliary (events) port
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-3694
        Internal consistency check in query with grouping by subquery+stored procedure+aggregate
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3672
        Computed index by SUBSTRING function for long columns
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3638
        Introduce FR_CA_CI_AI collation and change FR_FR and FR_FR_CI_AI to be identical to FR_CA and FR_CA_CI_AI respectively
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3575
        Support of backup volumes with size more than 4GB
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-3545
        Inconsistent domain's constraint validation in PSQL
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3476
        LIST function wrongly concatenates binary blobs
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3475
        Parameters inside the CAST function are described as not nullable
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3431
        ISQL pads UTF-8 data incorrectly
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3416
        Inserting Kase into a CHARACTER SET ASCII column succeeds
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3401
        Collation errors with [type of] <domain>, type of column
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3373
        It is possible to store string with lenght 31 chars into column VARCHAR(25)
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3338
        Regression: code changes disabled support for expression indexes with COALESCE, CASE and DECODE
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3317
        Success of deleting rows depending on order of row insertion
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Khorsun <hvlad at users.sf.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-3310
        RDB$GET_CONTEXT and BETWEEN in views
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3269
        When server gets unavailbale, client does not perform detach correctly
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-3260
        Interlock.h not portable
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-3250
        Cannot start firebird server under any username other than "root", "firebird" , "interbas"or "interbase"
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Bugfix CORE-3239
        UTF8 UNICODE_CI collate can not be used in compound index
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3204
        Constraint violation error of CAST is not raised inside views
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3201
        ATAN2 returns incorrect value for (0, 0)
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3174
        Expression index with TRIM may lead to incorrect indexed lookup
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3114
        Attempt to drop non-existing generator produces bad error
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3056
        Problems may happen when issuing DDL commands in the same transaction after CREATE COLLATION was issued
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3055
        Variable/argument name could be absent or be wrong in error messages when more than 256 variables are used
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3052
        Wrong resultset for comparisons involving multiple index segments
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-3047
        Wrong logic is used to resolve EXECUTE BLOCK parameters collations
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-2988
        Concurrent transaction number not reported if lock timeout occurs
      Contributor(s):
        Nickolay Samofatov <skidder at users.sf.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2957
        COUNT(*) from a big table returns negative result
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-2952
        Case-sensitive character class names in SIMILAR TO
      Contributor(s):
        Dimitry Sibiryakov <sd at ibphoenix.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-2932
        Wrong field position after ALTER POSITION
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-2922
        Character set used in constants is not registered as a dependency
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-2913
        COLLATE expressions are applied incorrectly
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-2798
        Incomplete plan output (lack of view names) when selecting from views containing procedures inside
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-2796
        DB_KEY is always zero for external tables
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-2788
        ISQL extracts the array dimensions after the character set name
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama C. <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2784
        Guardian creates more and more threads each time FBServer dies
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama C. <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2740
        GBAK restores invalid views without any warning to the user
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama C. <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2699
        Common table expression context could be used with parameters
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-2696
        ALTER TABLE command can add a field which has NOT NULL definition
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-2678
        Full outer join cannot use available indices (very slow execution)
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-2606
        Multibyte CHAR value requested as VARCHAR is returned with padded spaces
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-2547
        Utilities need to honor their minimum number of characters to recognize an option
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama C. <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2545
        Lack of several validations in GBAK
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama C. <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2543
        NBACKUP may hide the real cause of failure
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama C. <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2508
        Tricky index names can defeat the parsing logic when generating a human readable plan
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-2484
        Success message when connecting to tiny trash database file
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama C. <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-2431
        String values in error messages are not converted to connection charset
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-2238
        UTF8 and large varchar fields, IS DISTINCT FROM causes error "Implementation limit exceeded"
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-2204
        Constraints on SP output parameters are checked even when the SP returns zero rows
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-2155
        Join of SP with view or table may fail with error "No current record for fetch operation"
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1748
        Unrestorable backup
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-1712
        Buffer overflow in conversion
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama C. <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1620
        Incorrect error message (column number) if the empty SQL string is prepared
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1605
        Bugcheck 232 (invalid operation) for an aggregated query
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-1595
        Tray icon of Firebird Guardian disappears after Windows Explorer crash
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama C. <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-1550
        Unnecessary index scan happens when the same index is mapped to both WHERE and ORDER BY clauses
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-1518
        Adding a non-null restricted column to a populated table renders the table inconsistent
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-1355
        Zero is displayed instead of NULL
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-1188
        STARTING WITH :param (empty string) doesn't work if using index with many fields
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Bugfix CORE-634
        Bad treatment of FIRST/SKIP in sub-selects
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Khorsun <hvlad at users.sf.net>

    * Bugfix CORE-304
        Metadata security hole - any user can alter/drop generators and exceptions
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Bugfix CORE-92
        Infinite insertion cycle
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Khorsun <hvlad at users.sf.net>

    * Improvement CORE-3972
        Allow selection of SQL_INT64, SQL_DATE and SQL_TIME in dialect 1
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Improvement CORE-3919
        Improve SIMILAR TO performance
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Improvement CORE-3879
        Make FB_LOCK_PRINT a bit more handy
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Khorsun <hvlad at users.sf.net>

    * Improvement CORE-3788
        Make all utilities follow same rules when expanding database name
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Improvement CORE-3779
        Report OS user name in MON$ATTACHMENTS
      See also:
        /doc/README.monitoring_tables
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Improvement CORE-3704
        Add new context variables to the SYSTEM namespace
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Improvement CORE-3639
        Allow the use of multiple WHEN MATCHED / NOT MATCHED clauses in MERGE, as per the SQL 2008 specification
      See also:
        /doc/README.merge.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Improvement CORE-3594
        Include expected and actual string lenght into error message for sqlcode -802
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Improvement CORE-3588
        More details in the error message "wrong page type"
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Improvement CORE-3546
        Aliases for the RETURNING clause
      See also:
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.returning
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Improvement CORE-3343
        Support for the RETURNING clause in positioned (WHERE CURRENT OF) UPDATE and DELETE statements
      See also:
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.returning
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Improvement CORE-3251
        Use SSL/TLS support for both encryption and user authentication
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Improvement CORE-3234
        Support for text BLOBs >= 32K as first argument for TRIM()
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Improvement CORE-3085
        Add clause ALTER DOMAIN <name> [NOT] NULL
      See also:
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.ddl.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Improvement CORE-3076
        Better performance for (table.field = :param or :param = -1) in the WHERE clause
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Improvement CORE-3057
        Allow the usage of blobs in COMPUTED BY expressions
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Improvement CORE-3020
        Add RETURNING ... INTO ... clause to the MERGE statement
      See also:
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.returning, /doc/README.merge.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Improvement CORE-2868
        Increase trigger and stored procedure body size above 32KB
      Note(s):
        Available via the new API only
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Improvement CORE-2812
        Prohibit any improper mixture of explicit and implicit joins
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Improvement CORE-2787
        Make RDB$SYSTEM_FLAG not null
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama C. <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Improvement CORE-2780
        Include client library version and protocol version into MON$ATTACHMENTS
      See also:
        /doc/README.monitoring_tables
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Improvement CORE-2724
        Validate or transform string of DML queries so that engine internals don't receive malformed strings
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Improvement CORE-2712
        Do not print "invalid request BLR" for par.cpp errors with valid BLR
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama C. <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Improvement CORE-2697
        Support the "? in (SELECT some_col FROM some_table)" subqueries
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Improvement CORE-2575
        Make ISQL "input" command open relative filenames based on the directory
        of last opened (and not closed) input file
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Improvement CORE-2565
        Many hardcoded messages in Trace Manager
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama C. <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Improvement CORE-2554
        Grant execute permissions for UDFs
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Improvement CORE-2553
        Grants access on generators (gen_id, next value for)
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Improvement CORE-2542
        QLI and NBACKUP accept arbitrary input after the first letter of an option
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama C. <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Improvement CORE-2541
        Too many hardcoded messages in NBACKUP
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama C. <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Improvement CORE-2540
        Utilities need a more coherent way to show help and version
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama C. <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Improvement CORE-2187
        Return the client host name in MON$ATTACHMENTS
      See also:
        /doc/README.monitoring_tables
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Improvement CORE-2006
        SUBSTRING with regular expression (SIMILAR TO) capability
      See also:
        /doc/README.substring_similar.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Improvement CORE-2005
        Support SQL 2008 syntax for MERGE statement with DELETE extension
      See also:
        /doc/README.merge.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Improvement CORE-1906
        Allow interactive arguments (seconds and intervals) of fb_lock_print to be 32-bit integers
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Improvement CORE-1898
        Increased the password length from 8 characters, removed support
        for LegacyHash and Authentication parameters in firebird.conf.
        Support of pre-2.0 hashes is dropped, authentication is overridden
        by AuthServer parameter.
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * Improvement CORE-1609
        Remove limit of PSQL output parameter size
      Note(s):
        Available via the new API only
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Improvement CORE-1180
        DDL syntax to change (not) nullable state of columns
      See also:
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.ddl.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Improvement CORE-1117
        Remove or extend limit of command text length (64K)
      Note(s):
        Available via the new API only
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Improvement CORE-832
        Add support for parameterized exceptions
      See also:
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.exception_handling
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * Improvement CORE-800
        Easy metadata extract improvements
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama C. <cvalde at usa.net>

    * Improvement CORE-675
        Add entries to RDB$Types
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * Improvement CORE-672
        "Over the wire" connection encryption
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * New feature CORE-4089
        Runtime architecture configuration
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>
        Vlad Khorsun <hvlad at users.sf.net>

    * New feature CORE-3626
        Subfunctions in PSQL and EXECUTE BLOCK
      See also:
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.subroutines.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * New feature CORE-3621
        Window functions: NTH_VALUE
      See also:
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.window_functions.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * New feature CORE-3620
        Window functions: LAST_VALUE
      See also:
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.window_functions.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * New feature CORE-3619
        Window functions: FIRST_VALUE
      See also:
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.window_functions.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * New feature CORE-3364
        Blob filter to translate internal debug info into text representation
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Khorsun <hvlad at users.sf.net>

    * New feature CORE-3332
        Provide more detailed information about the query execution plan
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * New feature CORE-3291
        New pseudocolumn (RDB$RECORD_VERSION) to get number of the transaction
        that created a record version
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * New feature CORE-3018
        RECREATE and CREATE OR ALTER SEQUENCE/GENERATOR statements
      See also:
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.ddl.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * New feature CORE-2884
        New object rights for enhanced security
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * New feature CORE-2869
        Window functions: LAG and LEAD
      See also:
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.window_functions.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * New feature CORE-2830
        Window functions: DENSE_RANK, RANK and ROW_NUMBER
      See also:
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.window_functions.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * New feature CORE-2823
        Window functions: ORDER BY clause
      See also:
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.window_functions.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * New feature CORE-2777
        Make possible to alter the default database character set without manual update of system table
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * New feature CORE-2744
        Inverse hyperbolic trigonometric functions as native functions
      See also:
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.builtin_functions.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama C. <cvalde at usa.net>

    * New feature CORE-2700
        C++ API supporting functions, triggers and stored procedures
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * New feature CORE-2639
        Pseudo-table with list of users, available for management to current user
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * New feature CORE-2470
        Support for alternate format of strings literals
      See also:
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.alternate_string_quoting.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * New feature CORE-2312
        PSQL packages
      See also:
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.packages.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * New feature CORE-2310
        DDL triggers
      See also:
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.ddl_triggers.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * New feature CORE-2133
        Window functions: PARTITION BY clause
      See also:
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.window_functions.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * New feature CORE-2090
        Window functions: Support OVER () clause with current aggregate functions
      See also:
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.window_functions.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * New feature CORE-2047
        User-defined PSQL functions
      Contributor(s):
        Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr at firebirdsql.org>

    * New feature CORE-1952
        Deprecate implementation IDs in ODS, thus simplifying new ports
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * New feature CORE-1385
        Identity columns
      See also:
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.identity_columns.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * New feature CORE-1288
        Subprocedures in PSQL and EXECUTE BLOCK
      See also:
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.subroutines.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * New feature CORE-1209
        CONTINUE statement
      See also:
        /doc/sql.extensions/README.ddl.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * New feature CORE-816
        Stored procedures, triggers and functions in Java
      See also:
        /doc/README.external_routines.txt
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * New feature CORE-775
        True SMP support for SuperServer
      Contributor(s):
        Vlad Khorsun <hvlad at users.sf.net>

    * New feature CORE-726
        Boolean data type
      See also:
        /doc/README.data_types
      Contributor(s):
        Adriano dos Santos Fernandes <adrianosf at gmail.com>

    * New feature CORE-685
        Location of user lists (DB permission)
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

    * New feature CORE-657
        Database encryption
      Contributor(s):
        Alex Peshkov <peshkoff at mail.ru>

	* New feature CORE-462
        New option in addition to -V switch to specify a custom verbose interval
      Contributor(s):
        Claudio Valderrama C. <cvalde at usa.net>
