Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
#Perl Firebird driver DBD-Firebird 1.11 is released with utf-8 and other bugfixes
On the behalf of the developers and contributors team, I’m pleased to announce that DBD::Firebird v1.11 , a DBI driver for the Firebird RDBMS server is released.
This release brings many changes and bugfixes .
- Test::Exception is required
- On Freebsd Threaded perl is required
- Test database to use UTF8 charset and enable UTF8 for the connection
- Fix CHAR lenght when using multi-byte character set Fixes #32 (RT#76506)
- Additional debug when finishing already finished statement
- Avoid double destroying of statement in auto-commit mode with DDL Fixes Github Issue #30 (RT#72946)
The development is done on GitHub and the mailing list is here
Thank you
SQLAlchemy has added support for the new fdb Python driver
SqlAlchemy Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper has added experimental dialect for the fdb python
driver and it needs testers
Results of the XAMPP 2012 survey
Thanks for thouse who voted with firebird to be included in the one of the most known apache distributions
The XAMPP 2012 survey is now over. Thank you to all who participated and helped us to get answers to our questions. Exactly 2674 individuals participated in the survey and responded with 97938 single answers in total.
It will take some time for us to go through the results, but if you’re curious about the raw results, please feel free to look at the linked PDF. Thank you all again and hopefully youll find this data as interesting as we do.
http://www.apachefriends.org/files/surveys/af-survey-2012-raw.pdf
#JDBC driver Jaybird 2.2.1 will be probably released next week
News via twitter Mark Rotteveel
Updating releasenotes for Jaybird 2.2.1, and if testing goes OK, I will probably release next week.
Also don’t forget
Do you use Jaybird in your applications? Fill out our survey: http://infopoll.net/live/surveys/s36021.htm
Firebird Adapter for Rails 3.x is released :0.7.2
ActiveRecord Firebird Adapter 0.7.2 for Rails 3.x is released
(this version attempts to support migrations please test it)
Firebird Embedded on MacOSX
Based on a document written by Fulvio, a while ago, I finally spent time writing a make file that will automatically create an embedded version of Firebird that will run on MacOSX as a bundle. All you do is make a normal build of Firebird Classic and then use this make file to create the Firebird.app folder which is set up in a way that allows you to access a database via isql for example without the need for a full framework. The make file detailed below was written for Firebird 2.5.x
Django 1.5 driver for firebird ready for testing (based on the new fdb driver)
Hi everyone,
I’ve some news about development of django-firebird:
First, the current django-firebird at google code repository was updated (in trunk) with support for django 1.4. This version is still with kinterbasdb support.
There is a new version of django-firebird at https://github.com/maxirobaina/django-firebird.
This version is under development and uses the new fdb python-firebird driver in replacement of kinterbasdb. Also it’s tested with django 1.5 master branch, so that is possible what this can fail with django 1.4.
Given that this is still in alpha stage, so we need that you try it and give us some feedback.
For the moment, I’ll try to maintain both, but in the future, all efforts will target fdb with firebird 2.x and later.
Firebird 2.5.2 Release Candidate is available
The Firebird Project team is happy to announce that the v2.5.2 release
candidate kits for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X platforms are ready for
testing.
Please read the Release Notes for details.
Download page:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-2-5-2-rc1/
Enjoy the testing and please don’t hesitate to report the found
regressions (if any) to firebird-devel mailing list or in the bug tracker.
Regards,
Dmitry
Last week of XAMPP 2012 survey
This is the last week for XAMPP 2012 survey
Please take part and let us know how you use XAMPP with Firebird and what you expect in the future (eg: Firebird to be included in the default install options)