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Flashback: 25 years of Firebird

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In 2025, Firebird celebrated 25 years of development. We want to share 25 years of stories, memories, trivia, the ups and downs and major achievements in a livestream (in Portuguese) on February 5th at 7:30 PM (GMT -3). The event will feature Carlos Cantu, Alexandre Benson Smith and Artur Anjos.

Did you know that Ann Harrison, married to Jim Starkey (creator of InterBase/Firebird) and known as the “Mother of Firebird,” once received death threats because of FB? This is just one of the many curious stories we’ll share during our flashback.

Grab your beer, wine, coffee, juice, or whatever you prefer to drink, and join us for a fun flashback filled with behind-the-scenes info that most of you probably don’t know!

Join us on YouTube on February 5 at 7:30 PM (GMT -3)!

TurboBird for FireBird 5  

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A new TurboBird fork is released with Firebird5 features

New and Improved Features

Dynamic Firebird Data Type Handling
– All Firebird data types are now loaded dynamically at runtime, making TurboBird largely version-independent.

Package Support
– You can now create and edit Firebird packages directly within TurboBird.

UDR Support (User Defined Routines)
– TurboBird can now create, edit, and execute user-defined routines (UDRs), including parameters and results.

Unified Routine Runner
A single routine runner now supports:

– UDFs
– UDRs
– Stored Procedures
– Functions

New releases are here
https://github.com/mdadali/TurboBird/releases

Also you can find the changelog in the tagged release
https://github.com/mdadali/TurboBird/releases/tag/TurboBird_v1.2.1.1262

IBX for Lazarus 2.7.8 is now available for download

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MWA Software is pleased to announce the release of version 2.7.8 of IBX for Lazarus. This release is a bug fix release fixing several minor bugs – see changelog for details. The resolved issues apply to the design time editors. All users are recommended to upgrade to this version.

In this release:

  1. Fixed corruption in idmodifysqleditor.lfm. Using this editor should no longer
    result in an access violation.
  2. Design Time SQL Editors: Table Names are now shown in alphabetical order.
  3. IBSQL Editor: changing the “Use System Tables” checkbox should now refresh table list.
  4. Design Time Editors: Replaced embedded SQL Literals with constants
  5. Allow for alternative all upper case SQL literals or first letter UC only.
    Selected by defining the symbol GENERATE_SQL_ALL_UPPERCASE in design/IBSQLEditFrame.pas
    or in the Custom Options for dclibx.

PHP Firebird driver 6.1.1-RC.2 is released

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PHP Firebird driver 6.1.1-RC.2 is released . Please test thoroughly and report any issues.

Changes since v6.1.1-RC.1 :

  • New functions ibase_get_client_major_version(), ibase_get_client_minor_version()
  • Addressed issues: #22, #78, #88, #91, #92, #95, #96

Possible breaking changes:

  • ibase_close() now closes connection instantly instead of decreasing refcount (see more #22)
  • fetching TIME fields with IBASE_UNIXTIME flag now returns time as string instead of negative values
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