Author: mariuz

The second part of webinar, devoted to memory usage in Firebird . In this part, we discuss the optimal values for memory parameters in firebird.conf.

This webinar is devoted to memory usage in Firebird. In the first part of this webinar, we consider main memory types in operation systems, default distribution between them in Windows and Linux, and Firebird memory model.

If you’ve not seen usql before, it’s a universal command-line client for SQL databases , modeled on psql. usql makes it easy to work from the command-line, in a simple and consistent way across any database and on any platform (Windows, macOS, Linux). usql is written in Go, and provides things like syntax highlighting and compatibility with databases other than PostgreSQL

https://github.com/xo/usql

It does have support for Firebird SQL via GO driver
https://github.com/nakagami/firebirdsql

Lots happened in LibreOffice in May: new releases, events, a new Advisory Board member, a Bug Hunting Session, and more work on LibreOffice 6.1, due in early August! Check out our recap to learn more:
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2018/05/30/libreoffice-monthly-recap-may-2018/

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.8.4. This is a bugfix release.

Here is the description for CVE-2017-11509
An authenticated remote attacker can execute arbitrary code in Firebird SQL
Server versions 2.5.7 and 3.0.2 by executing a malformed SQL statement. The
only known solution is to disable external UDF libraries from being loaded. In
order to achieve this, the default configuration has changed to UdfAccess=None.
This will prevent the fbudf module from being loaded, but may also break other
functionality relying on modules.

Here is the Debian security page with the issue : CVE-2017-11509
And here is the original report https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2017-36

Firebird 3.0.3 Package is uploaded into Firebird 3.0.x ppa.

There are packages for Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) , 16.04 (Xenial)

Firebird 3.0.3 changes are available in the release notes

Work in progress for 14.04 (Trusty).

Read the new white paper “Authentication in Firebird” from IBPhoenix: Developments introduced in Firebird 3 provide many options for authenticating users attempting to attach to a database. No longer is authentication restricted to a single method: the methods available are determined by the plug-in authentication modules configured in the global and/or database config files.
Also, there are many interesting articles in Documentation area of IBPhoenix website.

Since Firebird 3 was released, users have sometimes been confused about the “missing” kits for Firebird embedded. We hope this article will demystify the issue and help developers migrating older embedded applications to Firebird 3 and higher.
Read the new white paper by Helen Borrie, Embedded Server in Firebird 3.