Bus errors would be thrown when working with the monitoring tables on RISC machines. The server could be shut down without regard to connections to services. Built-in trigonometric functions could produce NaN and Infinity. The Firebird.log file would grow too fast and by too much. These issues have been fixed
This release has many interesting new features,
like database triggers, temporary and monitoring
tables, common table expressions, recursive
queries, and dozens of new builtin functions.
This release includes a large collection of long-awaited enhancements that significantly improve performance and security, and has some desirable new SQL language features.