Sorry for the few days off-line. The big increase in the website visitors extrapolated (for the first time) our bandwidth limit. Due to Xmas vacation, I was able to check the problem just today. I have doubled the bandwidth limit. Let the people stay coming 😉
Firebird 2.5 rc1 package is now uploaded and accepted into debian experimental repository.
and here is howto test it
Update:package is reuploaded , some pdf documentation didn’t had the source in the tar, and for the moment the pdf blobs are removed
From FB events page:
Coming up in 2010 :: Firebird’s 10th birthday, July 31
Watch this space for details of events as plans evolve.
We are glad to announce that we now support Firebird as backend. The good news for us is that it just took 4 hours to get it working and even with the 100% of the tests in green.
OpenDBX supports Firebird since a lot of time but we didn’t have too much time to try it. I wanted to “give a hand” to Norbert generating all dlls for each new release. I didn’t have ever used Firebird neither Sybase. So, I started with Firebird and now it is working like a charm.
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We wish all of you, users, developers, etc, a very nice Christmas, and an awesome New Year! In 2.010, Firebird will complete 10 years of existance, and we hope it will be a very special year!
MySQL is used in most segments of the fragmented open source database market, including the Web app space, (along with SQLite), the desktop space (along with Firebird), and in the embedded market.
Read full article at SearchEnterpriseLinux.com.
StackOverflow will publish ads for free (only for Open Source projects.) I have made an image for Firebird but lacked rights/points to upload it. Douglas uploaded it, but we need more votes to put the spotlight over our bird. If you have an account in StackOverflow with at last 15 reputation points, please, vote now.
Carlos
Some changes in the latest version (FSQL v1.8.2, 2009-12-10):
bugfixes: RESTORE command, SHOW INDEX command, SHOW PROC command, executing DDL with AUTODDL OFF
some minor improvements and bugfixes that I do not remember 🙂
support for FB2.5
new commands NBACKUP, NRESTORE
new parametrs for RESTORE (FIX_FSS_DATA, FIX_FSS_METADATA)
commands for managing users via services API now prepended with SVC_MGR, to distinguish them from built-in FB commands.
Thanks to the progressive death of the NAS server from which all our Internet facilities are served, we lost everything – Tracker, website, Wiki, Windows snapshots and news mirrors – piece-by-piece over the past days.
By gargantuan effort, Sean Leyne and his colleagues at Broadview have been reconstructing our infrastructure from scratch. The main website http://www.firebirdsql.org is up but some pieces, such as Windows snapshots, are still missing.  Windows snapshots should be available some time today.
The other servers are more challenging, requiring radical reconstruction using new versions of underlying software, and will take time.
For now, if you find broken links (other than those to our other servers) then please feel free to inform us via a message to this list.
More info as it comes to light.
Helen
The Firebird Atkins NewsServer, the FB tracker and the website are temporary down and will come back in a few days. If you need to download Firebird installers, go direct to sourceforge.
