New features
- Parallel (multi-threaded) operations (#1783, [#3374], [#7447])
- Support for partial indices (#7257)
SKIP LOCKEDclause (#7350)- Inline minor ODS upgrade (#7397)
- Compiled statement cache (#7144)
- PSQL and SQL profiler (#7086)
- Support for
WHEN NOT MATCHED BY SOURCEin theMERGEstatement (#6681) - Built-in functions
UNICODE_CHARandUNICODE_VAL(#6798) RDB$BLOB_UTILnew system package (#281)- Support multiple rows being returned by DML with the
RETURNINGclause (#6815) - Optimize the record-level RLE algorithm for a denser compression of shorter-than-declared strings and sets of subsequent NULLs (#4723)
- More cursor-related details in the plan output (#7441)
More details can be found in the CHANGELOG.