R package odbc 1.4.1 Error. Unable to prepare query with "?"

Question

Starting from version odbc 1.4, unable to prepare sql queries with "?" parameters. It worked in versions 1.3.5 and older.

What has changed in odbc?

Example for FirebirdSQL:

> packageVersion("odbc")
[1] ‘1.3.5’
> prepare <- dbSendQuery(conn, "select * from sec$users where sec$user_name = ?")
> prepare
<OdbcResult>
  SQL  select * from sec$users where sec$user_name = ?
  ROWS Fetched: 0 [complete]
       Changed: 0

> packageVersion("odbc")
[1] ‘1.4.1’
> prepare <- dbSendQuery(conn, "select * from sec$users where sec$user_name = ?")
Error: nanodbc/nanodbc.cpp:1710: 07002
[ODBC Firebird Driver]COUNT field incorrect