IBProvider comes to 64 bits
New IBProvider v3.0 RC2 [build 3997] for 64 bits operational systems has been released.
Also the related article 10 reasons to upgrade Interbase and Firebird application to 64 bits was published.
Month: April 2008
ibwebadmin 2.0 added to ubuntu ppa repository
I have created the ppa packages using the version 2.0 pre from cvs and it can be installed by an simple
$apt-get install ibwebadmin or with synaptic(gdebi)
http://jimicompot.blogspot.com/2008/04/ibwebadmin-20-added-to-ubuntu-ppa.html
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13170201/ibwebadmin_2.0-1ubuntu6_all.deb
if you tried to contact FirebirdNews in the past weeks…
…we had an email problem due to an upgrade of the mail app in the server, that was avoiding us to receive any email sent to the site. The problem was detected recently so, if you tried to contact us in the past weeks/months, please send again your email since we probably missed it. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Firebird on 2nd place in Entwickler Readers Choice Award 2008
FWIW: Firebird won the 2nd place in the Entwickler Readers Choice Award 2008.
http://entwickler-magazin.de/zonen/magazine/psecom,id,47,nodeid,17,p,0.html
Python backup script for firebird
Here is an cron backup script written in python
Firebird v.2.0.4 RC1 is ready in pre-release for field-testing
The Firebird Project team announces a release candidate for the Firebird 2.0.4 sub-release, now available to download and test on 32-bit Windows, 32-bit and AMD64 Linux and MacOSX for x86 and PPC. Please test it thoroughly and report your experiences (good or bad) back to the firebird-devel or the firebird-test list.
Installing Firebird 2.0 RDBMS on Ubuntu 7.10
[Yet another guide for installing firebird2.0.x on ubuntu] This is my attempt at installing Firebird 2.0 on Ubuntu 7.10.
NHibernate 2.0 Alpha is out!
It gives me great pleasure to announce that NHiberante 2.0 Alpha 1 was released last night and can be downloaded from this location.
We call this alpha, but many of us are using this in production, so we are really certain in its stability. The reason that this is an alpha is that we have made a lot of changes in the last nine months (since the last release), and we want to get more real world experience before we ship this. Recent estimates are of about 100,000 lines of code has changed since the last release.
The Firebird Project hires 35 developers to speed up development!
Features like automaticaly speech to text translation, SMP support up to 1,500 CPUs, built-in OCR UDF’s, embedded browser, integrated email server, IPv12 support, GPS-ready, and all new MSDOS 6 support are among the new things to be released in FB 2.666.
A Release Candidate version is expected in 1 week.
The Core developers team also have grown a lot with the hire of 35 new developers to work full time for Firebird.The Firebird Project is having some problems coordinating such a large team, but they are sure that when the beer finish everything will be up and running.
“We are so excited about this great news, that we are thinking about changing the name to “The Project”, just after the acquisition of Oracle (target to the last quarter of 2008).”
Congratulations, Firebird Team !
Firebird Project Releases Firebird 2.5 Zeta 2
“The Firebird Project today officially releases the much-anticipated version 2.5 Zeta 2 of its open source Firebird relational database software.
The 2.5 release has many interesting new features that you can play with, like database triggers, temporary and monitoring tables, common table expressions, recursive queries and dozens of new inbuilt functions. We encourage you to see what you can achieve with these new features and let us know about any deficiency.
Windows ,MacOSX ,Linux kits fir 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are ready to download now You are invited to test it furiously and report your experiences (good or bad) back to the firebird-devel list.
It brings with it a large collection of long-awaited enhancements that significantly improve performance, security and support for international languages and realise some desirable new SQL language features. Under the surface, it also provides a much more robust code platform from which the re-architecting planned for Firebird 3.0 is proceeding.
The Firebird project roadmap for 2008 is now available.”