Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 2.5.3 — the latest minor release in the Firebird 2.5 series.
This sub-release introduces several bug fixes and a few improvements, please refer to the Release Notes for the full list of changes. Binary kits for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are immediately available for download.
Tony announced new version, IBX for Lazarus 1.1 is now available from
http://www.mwasoftware.co.uk/ibx
See announcement in the 3rd party Lazarus forum for the change log.
Performance increased with 30-50% in some cases.
Many thanks to Gabor for pointing out the performance issues and for testing updates. This kicked me into cleaning up this part of the code and rationalising the way that IBX handles column names with spaces and special characters in them.
Mark Rotteveel published a snapshot of Jaybird 3.0 for testing purposes.
This is a very early snapshot, a lot of work still needs to be done
before Jaybird 3.0 will be release-ready. We’d appreciate your feedback,
but we’d like to emphasize that this version is unstable and not ready
for production.
The protocol implementation has been fundamentally rewritten and changes
have been made for stricter JDBC conformance. As a result the driver
might exhibit different behavior than previous versions. Read the
release notes carefully to see if those differences are intentional. Bug
reports about undocumented changes in behavior are appreciated.
Current snapshot versions do not support Type 2 and embedded driver
Download from sourceforge
or from Maven from the sonatype snapshot repository
Release notes are online at driver documentation page
Today, 15/July, is the deadline to submit talks proposals for the Firebird International Conference, to happen in Prague, in the end of October. More information here.
Tuning 1.7 Terabyte FirebirdSQL database (part 3)
For those who did not read the first 2 parts:
Firebird Performance Degradation (part 1)
More details about 1.7Tb database (part 2)
