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I’m pleased to announce that FirebirdNews site now uses a modern adaptive theme, meaning that it will display correctly in several screen sizes, including mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.
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Carlos H. Cantu
Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 2.5.7 — the latest minor release in the Firebird 2.5 series.
This sub-release introduces several bug fixes (including fix for a recently reported security vulnerability) and a few improvements, please refer to the Release Notes for the full list of changes. Binary kits for Windows and Linux on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are immediately available for download. Binary kits for Mac OS X will follow shortly.
Hello!Just passing to inform that Firebird chocolatey packages are now ready for public usage. :)As easy aschoco install firebird -yto install Firebird 3.0.1 SuperServer.There’s also support for 2.1 and 2.5 releases. As well for Classic and SuperClassic installs.More info at:Best regards!F.D.Castel
Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 3.0.1 — the first point release in the Firebird 3.0 series.
This sub-release offers many bug fixes and also adds a few improvements, please refer to the Release Notes for the full list of changes. Binary kits for Windows and Linux on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are immediately available for download.
Do you plan to move to Firebird 3? Wanna avoid unnecessary headaches? Check out the Migration Guide to Firebird 3 right now!
So, Firebird 3.0.1 is out, and you are planning to move to it. But are you prepared for this task? Migrating to previous versions was usually an easy task, but is this still true for Firebird 3.x? Answer the following questions to know if you are really prepared to move to Firebird 3!
1) Can I connect to a database created in Firebird 2.5, using Firebird 3?
The first maintenance release of the Firebird 3 series is planned to be released in this month (September/2016). Firebird 3.0.1 will bring several bug fixes and performance improvements.
ODBMS Industry Watch recently interviewed Jim Starkey about “Database Challenges and Innovations”. The complete interview can be seen here. Jim invented the MVCC (Multi Version Concurrency Control) model, which is used in Firebird, InterBase and Postgres RDBMS.
Victory Fernandes published a video recorded at the 13th FDD, where he interviewed two conference speakers (Kelver Merlotti and me).
Audio is in portuguese.
The “Migration Guide to Firebird 3″ is now available in printed format too. Now people can choose to buy the digital version (PDF) or the Printed version. More information and buying links can be seen here.
The English version of the report of the 13th Firebird Developers Day is now available, with several pictures. Thanks for all the sponsors, supporters, attendees, speakers and of course, all who contributed allowing us to collect ~USD 1k for the Firebird Foundation.
