Subscriptions opened for the 8th FDD
If you live in Brazil (or speak Portuguese), you can already subscribe to the 8th edition of the Firebird Developers Day conference. Subscribe now and pay less!
Author: Cantu
I'm the owner of the Firebase.com.br site and the author of the books Firebird Essencial, Firebird 2 and Migration Guides to Firebird 3, 4 and 5. Loving Firebird even before it was born!
New Firebird site is almost ready
From Alexey Kovyazin:
Hello All,
Current data transfer from old site to the new site is almost complete. There are following areas in process:
- In Development – QA, Documentations for developers and .NET/Python drivers
- Old news – we will transfer old news for a while, now at 2009-2008 level.
- In About Firebird -> Features description, is in progress
- Grantee reports from old years
- Some minor content adjustments
Also we need to manage setup for daily snapshot uploads.
For regular site updates, like adding news or new FF members/sponsors, dedicated person from DQTeam will manage data adding/changing, until other site contributors will learn how to use CMS.
Actual transfer and redevelopment is almost over, now web-site redevelopment is about “intellectual” re-writing and new content creatiion.
Such process will be run constantly, and there will be always gap between ideal site and good-enough site.
I ask everyone to join the action now, look through the site thoroughly, and then provide actual help in order to jump over gap and switch to the new site in the next few days, and then go to the Phase 2 – improvements and extensions.
Old site will be live for a while, of course, so no content will be missed.Regards,
Alexey Kovyazin
New poll is on-line. Please participate!
A new poll was just activated in FirebirdNews site. Please participate marking all the listed FB features that you use in production environments (multiple choice, so you can mark more than one answer).
The poll is shown at the sidebar of the mainpage. Spread it among the other Firebird users you may know.
Shared Page Cache is coming
One of the biggest tasks for the long-awaited Firebird 3.0 release is the Shared Page Cache feature. With this feature, Firebird will finally be able to fully benefit of SMP machines without having to work with individual cache for every connection.
Vlad Khorsun had been busy working on this, and judging by recent commits to SoundForge, the task is almost finished. Part of the code came from Vulcan. He hopes that people will help doing lots of tests when the first alpha release appears.
Note: Up to now, Shared Cache was only available in the SuperServer model, but SS is not optimized for SMP.
Firebird on Linux and ICU > 4.2
Hi,
there was a bug in Firebird that did not handle well icu > 4.2 see (http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-3447)
2.1.4 and 2.5.0 packages in distributions were affected (Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, Mageia) because they are using icu 4.4
Adriano fixed it and in these various distro updates are on the way
I know that some of you are using Centos 5.
The problem with Centos 5, is that you can’t have Firebird 2.5 from EPEL
repository. Centos 6 will give you the possibility to have Firebird 2.5 from EPEL6 repository, but seems that Centos6 take a long time to come.
https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=25878
http://wiki.centos.org/QaWiki/6/AuditStatus
You can try to use Scientific Linux instead (http://www.scientificlinux.org)
As Centos, the base SL distribution is basically Enterprise Linux
(RHEL), recompiled from source, and Scientific Linux 6.0 was released on
March 3, 2011
—
Philippe Makowski
http://www.ibphoenix.com
Send your testimonial!
Hello All,
There is “Testimonials” section at the test version of new FirebirdSQL site http://www.firebirdtest.com/en/testimonials/
Please devote 5 minutes of your time and write testimonial – i.e., your
impression about Firebird. Nothing special, just several words about Firebird experience or, even simpler – short description and link to the enterprise which uses Firebird.Testimonials are important to demonstrate number of Firebird users and their satisfaction.
After new web-site launch all valid testimonials from the test site will
be moved to production version.Regards,
Alexey Kovyazin
8th Firebird Developers Day information
The venue and date for the next edition of the Brazilian Firebird Developers Day (FDD) is now defined. The conference will be in Piracicaba-SP, at Unimep (same place as the previous editions), in 23/July/2011. More information will be published in May, at the conference site.
Firebird 2.1.4 is out!
The Firebird Project team is pleased to announce the latest minor release in the Firebird 2.1 series, v.2.1.4, addressing bugs that have arisen since the v.2.1.3 release in 2009.
Kits are ready to download for Linux, Windows and MacOSX on both 32-bit and 64-bit Intel platforms. For MacOSX, LIPO (fat client) packages are included and PowerPC kits will follow soon.
Thanks to those who participated in testing snapshots and the release candidate during the months past. Enjoy!
Helen, on behalf of the Firebird team
New Silver sponsor: Ansoft
Ansoft Development Ltd, of the Russian Federation, producer of the Avarda range of products, joins us as a Silver sponsor.
Firebird Foundation new Bronze sponsor
We welcome Cointec Consultores Informática, from Spain, as a Bronze sponsor. Thanks to Jésus Angel García Zarco and his team.