Firebird 2.x and 3.0: the forseeable future
This will be a live-blog from the session by Dmitry Yemanov (so it will be long).
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
kinterbasdb 3-2 is now available
kinterbasdb-3.2 is now available. This release a fixes couple of bugs, and marks the transition of KInterbasDB 3.2 from the prerelease stage to maintenance mode.
Firebird Final V2.0 Released
The Firebird Project yesterday evening officially released the much-anticipated Version 2.0 of the Firebird relational database during the opening session of the fourth international Firebird conference. This release brings a large collection of long-awaited enhancements that significantly improve performance, functionality, security and international language support.
It was announced at the Firebird Conference in Prague, Czech Republic
lazarus 0.9.20 released
The Lazarus team is glad to announce the 0.9.20 release. This release
is based on fpc 2.0.4.
This release can be downloaded from the sourceforge download page:
Detailed list of changes
jdbc-jaybird 2.1.0 included in gentoo
The jdbc-jaybird package was synced by William L. Thomson Jr
The ubuntu package of flamerobin is live now
The ubuntu package of flamerobin 0.7.5 is live now and can be installed/downloaded
Porting firebird 2.0 for MAC OS X
Hi all, I [Jakub Zeman] fixed firebird 2.0 RC4 for MAC OS X. You will need following tools:
Open Source and Commercial Vendors – A study of the relational database market.
Lukas Smith just released his dissertation for the Technical University of Berlin on the developing economics of open source databases and what it means for the databse market in general. He spent a year interviewing dozens of people involved with OSSDBs, so there’s quite a bit of material there.
via Josh Berkus blog
flamerobin 0.7.5 available in Gentoo
I[William L. Thomson Jr.] recently committed an ebuild for FlameRobin 0.7.5 into Gentoo’s
portage repository. Should sync to mirrors in a few hours and users can
then
emerge flamerobin on Gentoo
Recent porting efforts
Two Linux ports have been contributed recently – MIPSEL and PowerPC (credits go to Fabrice Aeschbacher and Damyan Ivanov). Also, Paul Beach has ported v1.5.3 to HP-UX (already available for download) and Alex Peshkoff has almost completed porting the same version to AIX. And finally, port to Win64 (so far AMD64 and EM64T only) is committed into the HEAD branch and will be available in the v2.1 release.
via Firebird Developer’s Journal