CopyCat replication engine v. 3.04.0

Ladies and Gentlemen!

Microtec Communications is pleased to announce a new release of CopyCat,
version 3.04.0
! You will find the full list of changes at the end of
this email. This release also includes the changes from version 3.03.0,
which had not been made publicly available till now.

CopyCat is a Delphi / C++Builder component set encapsulating a database
replication engine
for Interbase, Firebird, MS SQL Server, MySQL and
SQLite. Using CopyCat, you can replicate heterogenously between all the
above database types, over various transport systems (direct DB
connection, XMLRPC, or RTC), on various platforms : Delphi/MS Windows
for the client side, server side implemented in Delphi, in Java, in PHP
(only for MySQL) and in Objective-C on iOS (only for SQLite).

CopyCat is a robust replication engine that has been in production use
since 2004. Go to our site at http://www.copycat.fr to find out more!

Below is the list of changes in the new release.

Best regards,
Jonathan Neve
Microtec Communications – http://www.microtec.fr
CopyCat / CopyTiger replication engine – http://www.copycat.fr

Database Workbench 4.4.0 released

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

Database Workbench 4.4.0 Pro

For more information, see here.

This version includes small new features, enhancements and fixes for issues as reported by our users.

Changes include:

  • improved SQL Insight
  • improved stored routine debugging
  • improved Unicode support

And much more: click here for the full list of changes in v4.4.0

The free Lite Editions will be released later.

Database Workbench supports:
– Borland InterBase (6.x – XE )
– Firebird ( 1.x, 2.x )
– MS SQL Server/MSDE ( 7, 2000, 2005, 2008, MSDE 1 & 2, SQL Express )
– MySQL 4.x, 5.x
– Oracle Database ( 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g )
– Sybase SQL Anywhere ( 9, 10, 11 and 12 )
– NexusDB ( 3.0 and up )

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PHP 5.5 beta3 is released and pdo_firebird.dll is re-added to builds and ready for testers

The PHP development team announces the release of the 3rd beta of PHP 5.5.0. This release fixes some bugs against beta 2.

PHP 5.5.0beta3 is shipped with some bug fixes and improvements. Here is an incomplete list:

  • Drop support for bison < 2.4 when building PHP from GIT source.
  • Fixed bug #54567 (DateTimeZone serialize/unserialize)
  • Fixed bug #64555 (foreach no longer copies keys if they are interned)
  • Fixed bug #64578 (debug_backtrace in set_error_handler corrupts zend heap)

You can read the full list of changes in the NEWS file contained in the release archive.

For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0beta3 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/.

Our next beta is expected for April 25th. RC should follow.

Thank you for supporting PHP

isql documentation update

The manual for isql has been hugely updated, tidied up and is now online at
http://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/reference_manuals/user_manuals/html/isql.html for the html and at http://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/reference_manuals/user_manuals/Firebird-isql.pdf for the pdf version.

If you get an older version that document 0.5 then the cache needs to be flushed.

It’s still not fully complete, but it’s a lot further down the line than before.

Cheers,
Norm.


Norman Dunbar
Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd

Thank you Norman, for the excellent work!

FBLib (Firebird Pascal Library) repository has moved to Github

For years the FBLib (Firebird database library for Free Pascal, Delphi and Kylix) has lived in the 3rdParty directory tree of tiOPF. We are cleaning up the tiOPF repository, and so I have now moved the FBLib project out to Github, into its own repository. The repository history is intact. I still need to add a few more patches I have locally, and some Lazarus based support apps.

All future development of FBLib will now happen on Github.

To get a copy of the code:

git clone git://github.com/graemeg/firebird-lib.git

News via lazarus forum

Django1.5.x Firebird driver with Python 3.x support ready for testing

Maximiliano Robaina wrote about Python3 fixes for the Firebird Django driver :

I just pushed up a new commit into django-firebird github repository [1] with several python 3 fixes.
If anybody can test it with python 3 and report any issue, it will be appreciated.

Take into account that this improvements are available into github repository, not on PyPI yet. Pull requests are welcome 😉

[1] https://github.com/maxirobaina/django-firebird

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