Year: 2014

Active Record Firebird Adapter 0.8.7 updated
Fixes regression affecting delayed_job usage :
When a result set is not returned, exec_query still needs to return the number of rows affected.

Active Record Firebird Adapter 0.8.6 now supports pluck for efficiently retrieving a single column of a result set in an array.

Another change is : Handle cases where sql does not return a result set.

Here are a few fixes for v1.6.x Release Candidate 1 commited into master
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Fixed missing date_interval_sql implementation. #21
Fixed datetime_trunc_sql NotImplementedError. #20
Fixed missing SQLDateTimeCompiler. #19
Fixed BigIntegerField is not supported in introspection. #18
Fixed BinaryField is not supported in introspection. #17
Fixed missing method name. #11
Fixed setup.py due to README extension change. #12
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Also Django Firebird stable 1.5.2 is uploaded to pypi with a few fixes backported from master branch (if you use Django 1.5.x)

pyfirebirdsql Version 0.8.4 is released with following changes

• refactoring
• add repair() method in Services
• add is_disconnect() method in Connection

New feature preview feature in LibreOffice 4.2  : Firebird SQL connector for LibreOffice Base ( contributed by Andrzej Hunt). When creating a new Database, select Firebird Embedded in the drop down menu (you have to first enable the Experimental features in Tools ▸Options ▸ LibreOffice ▸ Advanced).

 

This allows creation of databases that perform many times faster than the previous built-in HSQLDB 1.8, avoiding the C++-to-Java overhead inherent in using HSQLDB. We plan to phase HSQLDB out over the next few releases, and provide a smooth migration path to Firebird.

Here is the history of Firebird -> Libo GSOC integration (idea ,code ,bugs, blog posts)

http://en.libreofficeforum.org/node/6062

Firebird ActiveRecord gem is updated to version 0.8.4 with a few fixes:

• Standardize on “gem build activerecord-fb-adapter.gemspec” rather than Rakefile to build new gems.
• Allow for the presence of both binds and encoded values within the SQL statement. Credit to Ray Zane.