C++ coders are needed for a pure Firebird/SDBC LibreOffice driver
Here is the bug with more info on how to help.
This bug needs to be fixed so we can replace Java-based HSQLDB database engine with Firebird in LibreOffice Base.
Year: 2012
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Firebird for Android?
Posted in FB-DEVEL:
FIrebird for Android
——————–Key: CORE-3885
URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-3885
Project: Firebird Core
Issue Type: Task
Components: Build Issues / Porting
Affects Versions: 2.1.5
Environment: Android 4
Reporter: JLM
Priority: MinorHello,
I’m trying to build Firebird 2.1 for Android ARM.
For the moment, I am compiling, step by step, by correcting builds issues.
To compile, I use the custom NDK R7 by Crystax in order to use the standard libc instead of the Bionic libc.I will write my advance gradually.
Regards,
Loweno
Do you have interest? Vote for it in the tracker and show your support 😉
Firebird 2.0.x series discontinued End Of Life
Accordingly to its release lifetime policy, Firebird Project notifies that the Firebird v2.0 series has reached its end of life and thus will not be maintained anymore. The last official release in this series, Firebird 2.0.7, which has been announced this year, will be available from the “discontinued” section of the download area.
The Firebird roadmap is updated , we are waiting for Firebird 3.0.x Alpha 🙂
Fun with Firebird Database Default Credentials and how to change them
I have had a few internal network penetration tests now in which I came across the following finding identified by McAfee Vulnerability Manager (MVM): “Firebird SQL Default Credentials Detected”. So I figured I’d share with you what is required to interact with the database and provide you with ideas on what you can do after you connect
Proposal for Firebird 3.0: Ditch the NONE as default charset
After some hot discussion in Firebird-Java, I want to propose to ditch
the NONE as default character set for newly created databases when no
database charset is specified.
Read the rest of the full thread on Firebird-Devel.
FlameRobin connection thread test on Windows
I have posted a test version of FlameRobin: http://mghie.users.sourceforge.net/flamerobin_win32_test.zip
(a ZIP file containing only the 32 bit executables for Windows in ANSI and Unicode version) that uses a thread to establish the database connection. That
means that the progress dialog can be moved and cancelled, and the progress bar is updated in indeterminate mode. To see it in action it’s
best to try to connect to a database on a server which is not available or which doesn’t exist, which so far blocks FlameRobin completely until
the connection call times out. It would be great if people could test this and write (to flamerobin-devel) whether anything
breaks for them (it didn’t for me, yet). I’m a little of unsure if I should clean this up and commit…
Thanks
—
Michael Hieke
Help needed testing in big-endian
Adriano just posted on his twitter:
I need help to validate Firebird 2.5 on big-endian machine. Please run this test and report back the result. Thanks! http://bit.ly/MLLwLu
FDB Firebird Python driver 0.8.5 is released
Highlights for this release:
- – Support for Firebird stream BLOBs (see ReleaseNotes for details)
- – Fix for PYFB-17 and PYFB-18 (see our JIRA tracker for details)
- – Fixes for automatic unicode conversions + refactoring
- – Some optimizations
- – Documentation (stub, from KInterbasDB 3.3.0)
Target for next release: Documentation
Wt, a C++ Web Toolkit supports Firebird
Wt (pronounced as witty) is a C++ library for developing web applications and from now it supports Firebird for back-end