Firebird Roadmap updated for January 2012

This document states the current development activities of the project and establishes the estimated release schedule for the foreseeable future. It’s getting periodically updated in order to be in line with the reality.

The project’s development resources are currently dedicated to the v2.5 and v3.0 versions, with v2.0 and v2.1 versions being maintained on the regular basis.

As notified earlier, the v1.5.x series is not being released anymore. Firebird 1.5.6 was the last release of that series officially published by the project. However, its codebase may still collect some bugfixes occasionally backported from the newer versions. Any subsequent binary releases, should they be necessary, would be available from IBPhoenix on a commercial basis.

Please pay attention that the v2.0.x series celebrates its sixth anniversary this year. So far the project maintenance practice was to discontinue support for the release series older than five years. Thus please be prepared that the next point release (v2.0.7) could be the last one published by the project in that series.

For more details about the anticipated releases, read on.

Firebird 2.5.2 svn snapshot 53775 landed in Debian unstable

firebird2.5 (2.5.2~svn+53775.ds4-1) package is now in debian unstable
Here is the list of debian changes and fixes

* Snapshot from upstream’s 2.5 branch, revision 53775
* control: note -doc doesn’t contain release notes (LP#908963)
* control: change transitional 2.5-dev package to oldlibs/extra
* control: -common package is arch:all
the last arch-specific bit, ibutil was moved to -server-common
* -classic.init: provide a status option
* control: 2.5-dev, -classic-common: depend on the same (source) version of
-common-doc

Firebird SQL Project Newsletter, Issue 2

Yesterday the second issue of Firebird SQL Project newsletter was delivered to all subscribers. This issue includes announcements of official Firebird channels at YouTube and SlideShare, the full list of materials from Firebird Conference 2011, and also digest of recent community news.
You can read the second issue online.

We strongly encourage you to subscribe to Firebird SQL project newsletter in order to receive new issues in time.

Status of PHP PDO_Firebird as of December 2011

If you have read the previous article about Firebird pdo status then you might now that almost all worked  except binding parameters by name (see  bug #48877).

But as a gift bug #48877 is fixed in svn , and is already in the php  snapshots for 5.4.x,5.3.x and trunk 5.5.x

So it should all work from the mentioned article , There are still some bugs left but it will be fixed until the end of the year : Bugs #47415 and #53280 are already done from my todo list


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