Database Workbench 5.1.12 released

Upscene Productions is proud to announce the availability of the next release of the popular multi-DBMS development tool:

” Database Workbench 5.1.12 “

This release includes new features and useful enhancements. Version 5.1 includes Microsoft SQL Azure, Firebird 3 and Windows Terminal Server support. Soon to be added: PostgreSQL support, for screenshots see our Twitter account.

GSOC 2016 Finish Firebird Libreoffice driver integration

There is a medium difficulty task for a c++ programmer in current GSOC 2016

The Firebird driver for LibreOffice was started, and is mostly functional, in a previous GSoC, but it needs finishing and polishing. The main remaining issue is that the firebird data format embedded in the .odb file is endianess-dependent. The idea is to switch to Firebird’s “archive” format that is not.

Required skills / knowledge
C++, SQL, Reading other’s code, capacity to work autonomously.
Difficulty
medium
Potential mentors
Lionel Elie Mamane, IRC: schoinobates, mail: lionel AT mamane DOT lu

Firebird project repository was migrated to GitHub

Dimitry Yemanov announced :

The project repository was migrated to GitHub:
https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird

Please wait a few days for things to settle down, we need to update some
infrastructure. SVN repository is still accessible, but new
contributions are expected to be provided as pull requests at GitHub.

When creating a GitHub account, we suggest to add your SourceForge’s
email (username@users.sourceforge.net) as a secondary one to associate
your past contributions with your account.

“Guia de migração para o Firebird 3” is released

FB 3 GuideThe Portuguese version of my new eBook, Guia de migração para o Firebird 3 (Migration guide to Firebird 3) was just released! The book has tips and explanations to make the life of anyone who wishes to move to Firebird 3 easier.

An English version of the guide will be available in the following weeks at Amazon, both in paperback and digital formats. This is my third book devoted to Firebird, and the first one to be published also in English.

Brazilians can buy the guide right now in the FireBase on-line store.

Carlos H. Cantu

ODBC driver updated

Firebird ODBC driver 2.0.4 was released today, with the following changes:

  • fixed bug, URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/ODBC-79, “Problem with case sensitivity for table/relations name in SET TRANSACTION RESERVING clause”
  • fixed bug, URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/ODBC-174, “SIGSEGV received in libOdbcFb.so: memcpy in JString constructor incorrect input parameter”
  • fixed bug, URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/ODBC-184, “CHAR(X) fields have invalid length if using UTF8 charset and collations”
  • fixed bug, URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/ODBC-190, “ODBC function SQLGetInfo fails if SQL_KEYWORDS InfoType is requested”
  • fixed bug, URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/ODBC-191, “ODBC driver doesn’t show error message for Test connection button in DSN dialog. Improvements in Windows DSN dialog interface”
  • fixed bug, URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/ODBC-192, “Incorrect conversion of time values when retrieved as string”
  • correct alignment issues for Sun Solaris and HPUX – updated Linux makefile to support both iODBC and unixODBC, thanks to Paul Beach

You can download it at sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-ODBC-driver/2.0.4-Release/

 

Firebird 3.0 RC2 is released

Firebird Project announces the second Release Candidate of Firebird 3.0, the next major version of the Firebird relational database, which is now available for testing.

This Release Candidate demonstrates the complete set of features and improvements developed for the new release. Release Candidates are generally considered stable enough and may be recommended for testing in “almost-production” environments. Please report about any found bugs to the bugtracker.
Please read the Release Notes carefully before installing and testing this Release Candidate.

Firebird Project will be moving its repositories to GitHub

Firebird Project will be moving its repositories to GitHub

Dimitry Yemanov wrote on Firebird-Devel list:

I’m asking present contributors to create accounts there. If anyone
(including past contributors) wants your past commits to be
automatically linked to your GitHub account and be shown in the
statistics, please report your account name in this thread, or make sure
that your *.users.sourceforge.net email is added as a secondary one at
GitHub.

For the moment there is already a github mirror for sourceforge firebird core
https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/core

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