Sourceforge.net Update January Edition…

.. mentions Firebird as one of the Top 25 Projects of the Month

Sourceforge.net Update is a monthly electronic newspaper from sourceforge. It keeps you update of the changes inside sourceforge, and many other interesting information. It always ends with a list of 25 projects that are “under radar”.

This month, Firebird is on this top 25 list, next to other well know open source projects, such as Azureus, phpMyAdmin, 7-Zip, Webmin.

Firebird 2.0.5 is Released

The Firebird Project team is pleased to announce the release of Firebird 2.0.5. Kits for Linux (i686 and AMD-64), Win32 and MacOSX Intel and PowerPC should start to filter through to SourceForge over the next few hours, ready to download. This sub-release features a significant batch of bug fixes, many backported from v.2.1.x development.

Bugs fixed can be reviewed HERE.

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Version 3.14 beta was released and we can read:

We upgraded to new FirebirdSQL version. This version is faster and more stable.

Firebird 2.1.2 Release Candidate 1 is Ready to Test

The Linux, Win32 and MacOSX/Intel release candidate kits for Firebird 2.1.2 have been released for field testing. Feedback to the firebird-devel list please; bug-reports to the Tracker.

Firebird 2.1.2 corrects a significant number of bugs that have shown up since 2.1.1 relase. It also includes three minor improvements that have come from user requests

  • Dmitry Yemanov has improved database monitoring to enable a non-SYSDBA user to monitor all of its own attachments, not just the one which is that user’s CURRENT_CONNECTION.
  • Dmitry has addressed a complaint about slowness in executing cross joins across three or more tables, particularly when one or more tables are empty.
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