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Removal of WNET protocol

Network protocol WNET (a.k.a. Named Pipes, a.k.a. NetBEUI) previously supported on Windows platform is removed in Firebird 5.0.Those Windows users who operated with any WNET connection string (\\server\dbname or wnet://server/dbname) should switch to INET (TCP) protocol instead (connection string server:dbname, server/port:dbname, inet://server/dbname, or inet://server:port/dbname).

Removal of QLI

Command-line utility QLI is removed in Firebird 5.0, in accordance with its deprecation announcement published in the Firebird 4.0 release notes.