Via twitter and flamerobin /firebird-devel mailing lists i have seen a lot of activity related to firebird on ArchLinux packages
Creating now 4 packages of #firebird 2.5 to #ArchLinux: SuperServer, libfbclient, ClassicServer, SuperClassic, will be in AUR when I’ll done
Arch is in top 10 most wanted distros on distrowatch
GuacoSoft offers 50% discount to all MindTheBird members, on XMLWizard tool to import data into Firebird from external files like XML, CSV and textual files.
http://www.guacosoft.com/xmlwizard
Discount: 50%
ShareIt coupon code: you can find it in Milan’s message in MTB discussion group
Only valid until October 15th, 2010.
NOTE :: To make the new engine work properly under multi-threaded conditions we had to use Grand Central Dispatch, which was first released in MacOSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard). MacOSX users should be aware that Firebird 2.5 will run only on MacOSX 10.6 or higher versions. If you want to use an earlier version of OSX you will need to use an earlier version of Firebird.
Download from usual location :
Firebird 2.5 brings a new architecture called SuperClassic. The official FB 2.5 Linux packages brings SuperClassic and Classic in the same package, and when you install it, Classic will be activated by default.
To be able to change to SuperClassic, you need to run the script changeMultiConnectMode.sh that is installed with FB 2.5.
You will be prompted with: “Which option would you like to choose: multi-(process|thread) [process]”
Answering thread will activate SuperClassic, while process will activate Classic mode.
PS: This is not documented in the Release Notes.
Recorded Firebird Launch webinar is available at http://www.mindthebird.com/download/firebird25launchwebinar041010.zip .
Debian packages for the official Firebird 2.5.0 release are available. Because Debian is in a “freeze”, preparing for its stable release, these were uploaded to the experimental distribution.
You can follow this guide to use the mix of Debian sid and experimental distro with latest Firebird package
I just made available for the public, the (Portuguese-Brasil) translated version of the Firebird 2.5 Press Release!
Thanks to all FB developers for the great work!
Firebird 2.5 is out!
Don’t forget to join the webinar using the link (13h GMT):
www.livemeeting.com/cc/fbcon2010/join?id=46D79S&role=attend
Philippe Makowski (president of the Firebird Foundation) and Dmitry Yemanov (chief of the development team) will be present.
