Firebird security fixes pushed to Fedora and EPEL 5,6
An important security fix for Firebird is pushed to Fedora and EPEL
Please update your servers.
Here is how the patch looks if you want to apply to other Linux distros
Year: 2013
Daily Firebird builds and tests results
You can watch the for Daily Firebird builds and tests suite results created on a Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
There are results for G++ compiler warnings
Also the console output can be consulted for the running and finished QA tests
Firebird RDBMS bindings for Python FDB 1.0 is released
FDB release 1.0 is out:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb
Improvements:
– Removed dependency on presence of fbclient library at import time. This caused some confusion to new users when fdb install failed when Firebird was not (yet) installed.
Bugs Fixed:
And, in case you wonder, IB Objects works great in Lazarus
Here is the comment from Jason Wharton on FreePascal 2.6.2 release news
And, in case you wonder, IB Objects works great in Lazarus.
Jaybird wiki content is updated
Mark Rotteveel mentioned he is updating the content for the JDBC Driver wiki
I started updating the #Jaybird wiki on http://jaybirdwiki.firebirdsql.org/ #firebird
New implementation for wire protocol in Jaybird and all drivers need a faster wire protocol
Mark Rotteveel wrote on twitter about the Jaybird improvement:
Writing a new implementation of the wire protocol in Jaybird. I fear it is going to cascade into a total rewrite of the driver
Jiri chatted later:
IMO the whole “communication layer” needs redesign. It’s (way) too legacy.
And later on the twitter channel Brent Rowland wrote:
Contemplating creating a new wire protocol. Stop me now…
I have a replication system for Firebird I need to extend across a WAN. Firebird has no built-in replication and the protocol is chatty.
Editor:All these conversations are around Firebird 2.5.x protocol , there is work conducted by Dmitry Yemanov on improving the Firebird 3.x protocol
FreePascal 2.6.2 is released
FPC 2.6.2 has landed. FPC 2.6.2 is an update to 2.6.0 that
contains most library progress over the 2.6.0 and some crucial
compiler fixes.
Building is still in progress and some formats (deb,rpm) and targets might
not be available yet.
Changes that may break backwards compatibility are documented at:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.6.2
For Downloads, please use sourceforge
https://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/
Enjoy!
The Free Pascal Compiler Team
News via Lazarus Forum
Firebird mentioned on Evans Data survey
A new survey from EvansData about Software Development Tools mentions Firebird among the preferred Database choices. You can participate in the survey (and win points to trade for prizes later) accessing http://surveys.evansdata.com/20130220.php
Django Firebird driver now available for install from pypi. Just run: pip install django-firebird #django
Django Firebird driver is now available from pypi
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-firebird
This was announced on twitter by Maximiliano Robaina
New maintainer for the SOCI Firebird SQL project (The C++ Database Access Library)
Here is the tweet with announcement:
Just added Viacheslav Naydenov to SOCI team as new maintainer of FirebirdSQL backend to be (re)released with SOCI 3.2.0 and 4.0.0
Originally, SOCI was developed by Maciej Sobczak at CERN as abstraction layer for Oracle, a Simple Oracle Call Interface. Later, several database backends have been developed for SOCI, thus the long name has lost its practicality. Currently, if you like, SOCI may stand for Simple Open (Database) Call Interface or something similar.
GitHub hosts SOCI source code repository, issues tracker and wiki: https://github.com/SOCI
Project website at http://soci.sourceforge.net Release downloads and mailing lists at http://sourceforge.net/projects/soci/
Travis CI service at https://travis-ci.org/SOCI/soci
