libdbi and libdbi-driver 0.8.3 pre released
I’ve uploaded tarballs of the current libdbi and libdbi-drivers cvs
versions. Both will identify themselves as 0.8.3-pre1. I intend to
release them as 0.8.3 shortly, unless someone finds showstoppers.
Month: January 2008
Firebird 2.1RC1 is out
The Firebird Project team is happy to announce that download kits for the first V.2.1 release candidate are now available – Windows and Linux 32-bit and 64-bit platforms now, MacOSX soon. You are invited to test it furiously and report your experiences (good or bad) back to the firebird-devel list.
As always, please be patient if the files you want haven’t made it out to the mirrors at your first attempt.
2008 Roadmap
The Firebird’s 2008 Roadmap is now public available.
interesting stats on the php lists
you can check the php lists stats that are related to firebird
JVCS 2.50 Beta 1 released – 1st branching support release!
The JVCS team is happy to announce JEDI VCS 2.50 Beta 1, which is the first beta version of the second JVCS release.
This beta version targets experienced JEDI VCS users which are interested in branching functionality.
Sun buys MySQL = opportunity to Firebird
Marco Cantu posted in his blog some comments about the recent acquisition of MySQL by Sun. Among his considerations, Marco see this as a good opportunity to Firebird, a trully OpenSource project (and product):
I think this is another great opportunity for a truly open source and fully independent database like FireBird (and to a much lesser extend for InterBase)
phpMyFAQ 2.0.5 released
The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 2.0.5, the “With a Little Help From My Friends” release. This release fixes the lighttpd rewrite rules and many minor bugs.
[Ed. note] phpMyFAQ supports Firebird as storage database.
Database Workbench Pro 3.1.0 released
Ladies, gentlemen,
Upscene Productions is proud to announce the next
version of the popular database development tool:
” Database Workbench Pro 3.1 ”
Changes Highlights in 3.1
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– New features and enhancements in Conceptual and Physical Diagramming
– InterBase and Firebird Trigger Debugger
– New options in Schema Compare
– GUI improvements
– Ability to use Oracle 11g
– Diagramming usuability improvements
– Many bug fixes…
New Feature Highlights in 3.0
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– Conceptual and Physical Data Model Diagramming
– ADO/ODBC Explorer (run queries against any ADO/ODBC datasource)
– “Workspace” Feature for increased usability
– Increased Oracle support (object types, collection types, object tables and more)
– Increased MySQL support (events, spatial extensions and more)
– Oracle Stored Code Debugger
– Code Editor enhancements (parameter insight, parenthesis highlighting)
– File Compare Tool
… and much more …
Download a trial at: http://www.upscene.com/download.htm
What’s new?: http://www.upscene.com/products/dbw/whatsnew30.htm
Full list of features and fixes: http://www.upscene.com/news/20080121.htm
FirebirdSQL Reference – up again
http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/index.php?page=FirebirdSQL+Reference
Has MySQL updated to 6.0 and PostgreSQL updated to 8.2.
Some pages will request a login. That is because we are using private information to provide them and can’t allow access in the public domain.
Depot Files and HP-UX
I have just finished writing a depot install for Firebird Classic 2.0x on HPUX . A depot install is the HP equivalent of a Linux rpm or Solaris package. The operating system install uninstall utilities take command of looking after the files. Although in more complex areas you still have to have the relevant postinstall and postremove scripts to handle things like links etc.