While you are reading this, Firebird 2.5 RC2 is being prepared for release. Users feedback will show if a RC3 will be needed, or if RC2 will be followed by the final release.
January 2010
FB 2.5 RC2 is coming
Kinterbasdb 3.3.0 (#Python Driver) included in #Debian and #Ubuntu
Kinterbasdb 3.3.0 stable driver is included in Debian Squeeze (Testing) and Sid (Unstable)
Update : is now included in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx
You can install it by a simple:
sudo apt-get install python-kinterbasdb
Igor Wawrzyniak wrote on his blog :
Don’t know if anyone ever needs such a crazy setup, but here it goes. I needed to run a software that requires Firebird 2.x. Nothing special, it’s available in my distribution (Ubuntu). I also had to run another app that needs Firebird 1.5. That’s where it started to get complicated
ANN: dbExpress Driver for Firebird version 22 released
Hi,
dbExpress Driver for Firebird version 22 has released. Here are the
fix:
4.1.2007.22 / 4.1.2009.22 / 4.1.2010.22 Release on 25 Jan 2010
1. Fixed Malformed String exception if set a empty string to a VarChar column of character set UTF8.
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Best Regards,
Chau, Chee-Yang
Window Functions (part2) – cumulative aggregates
adrianosf twiteed
New blog post – Window Functions (part2) – cumulative aggregates – http://bit.ly/8sgfKU.
And here the Hebrew version of the article
Good news for #Debian #kFreeBSD and #FreeBSD
Damyan submited the patches to make Firebird 2.5 buildable on FreeBSD.
You can watch Debian building logs here
Connecting from iPhone to Firebird
I decided to challenge MonoTouch and create iPhone application that connects to Firebird server using .NET provider for Firebird. Read more…
New release – Sinática Monitor 2.1.6 for Firebird
You can download the new release here , read the release notes and see the nice screenshots there or follow sinatica on twitter for news related to Monitor
#Fisheye in the Firebird #jira tracker
From the cool stuff department if found the Fisheye in the Jira tracker and it shows all bugs closed and related code changes (diffed)

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