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Fixed

• #80: Preserve multibyte characters split across service text output responses, including
  when a timeout occurs between responses.

Fixed

• #75: Cursor, Statement, and Connection finalizers raise unraisable DatabaseError after
  connection loss

Added

• A runtime provider protocol and provider-based client library selection through load_api().
  get_api().provider exposes the selected provider or the driver's internal provider.
• Firebird 6 trace session plugin support: ServerTraceServices.start() accepts plugin names,
  and TraceSession reports the plugins returned by the service manager.
• Configurable Server.query_timeout and a TIMEOUT sentinel for timed text output queries.
  readline() and iteration report timeouts without ending output; readlines() omits them.
• Generated llms.txt for the published documentation and a repository skill for coding with
  firebird-driver.
• A hatch run build-skill workflow that packages the complete skill as a versioned ZIP for
  GitHub Releases.
• Developer guidance in development/, including module notes and test and build instructions.

Changed

• Migrated the user documentation and Read the Docs build from Sphinx to Zensical, including
  the API reference and docset workflow.
• Split the usage guide into topic pages and corrected examples, links, and API descriptions.
• Improved API reference rendering for class attributes and type annotations, and added
  light and dark documentation themes.
• Removed the unused gdocs build environment.
• Declared Python 3.14 and 3.15 in package classifiers and added 3.15 to the test matrix.
• Added Firebird 3, 4, and 5 embedded test backends with provider selection and runtime details
  in the pytest session header.
• BREAKING CHANGE: Corrected keyhoder to keyholder in backup(), restore(),
  local_backup(), and local_restore(); the misspelled keyword is no longer accepted.
• Documented version guards for Firebird features introduced in separate minor releases of
  supported branches.

Fixed

• Decode iUtil.get_client_version() into major and minor version numbers.
• Avoid caching a partially initialized client API when an API-loaded hook fails.
• GH-70: Preserve buffered service output lines after a non-LF line boundary in
  Server.readline().
• Treat stream_blob_threshold=-1 as disabling automatic BLOB streaming.
• Detect Linux libEngineXX.so plugins when reporting the internal provider's embedded capability.
• GH-69: Avoid detaching an already released Firebird 5 attachment during garbage collection.
• Keep the trace session plugins argument optional for existing callers.
• Correct historical changelog issue references and links for Markdown rendering in Zensical.
• Allow server log tests to pass when the log exists but has no entries.
• Isolate connection hooks between tests and close the connection supplied by the attach hook test.
• Make the local backup integration test work across supported Firebird versions.
• Make Firebird 3 integration tests respect feature availability, roll back failed fixture cleanup,
  and avoid timing assumptions for short service actions.

Fixed

• #65: Segmentation fault when close connection or cursor
• #63: Exception ignored in: function Connection.del
• #58: readline_timed() method appending \n to data received
• #56: Variable 'dsn' needs to be initialized in create_database()
• #53: Loss of scale when reading numeric with zero value
• #51: Exception ignored in: function Connection.del ... connection shutdown

Fixed

• #49: database host configuration not work with version 2

Fixed

• #48: AttributeError object has no attribute 'logging_id' in "del" methods

Fixed

• #22: Allow use of Firebird embedded engine for tests
• #41: Some firebird.conf parameters are missing in fbapi.config_items
• Fix: Added validation-related info codes that were ommited in DatabaseInfoProvider3.
• Fix: Properly handle situation when parameter database for connect and create_database is
  a DSN.
• Fix: TPB.parse_buffer handling of new READ COMMITTED READ CONSISTENCY.
• Fix: DPB.parse_buffer and SPB_ATTACH.parse_buffer.
• Fix: Introduce StatementInfoProvider4 for proper handling of FB v5 additions.
• Fix: ServerInfoProvider handling of SrvInfoCode.LIMBO_TRANS info code.

Changed

• Minimal Python version raised to 3.11
• Test changed from unittest to pytest
• Parameter database for connect and create_database now accepts pathlib.Path objects.
• Removed all usage of LoggingIdMixin as it's no longer available in firebird-base v2.0.
• Type hints adjusted to Python 3.11 standards

Added

• More tests for greater coverage

Changed

• Dependency to firebird-base adjusted to ~=1.8

Fixed

• Extend response buffer size in iBlob.get_info2.
• Don't use _bpb_stream when opening blob.
• Fixed typo in iResultSet definition.

Fixed

• Fix #44 - Invalid affected_row count on multiple statements