Author: mariuz

Firebird support for Decfloat will be enabled in Firebird 4.0 (Can be tested with latest snapshots)

Decfloat is a new SQL:2016 standard type introduced by IBM in DB2

Here is the Warning from Debian Developers :

This warning advisory is relevant for users of systems with the Intel
processors code-named “Skylake” and “Kaby Lake”. These are: the 6th and
7th generation Intel Core processors (desktop, embedded, mobile and
HEDT), their related server processors (such as Xeon v5 and Xeon v6), as
well as select Intel Pentium processor models.

TL;DR: unfixed Skylake and Kaby Lake processors could, in some
situations, dangerously misbehave when hyper-threading is enabled.
Disable hyper-threading immediately in BIOS/UEFI to work around the
problem. Read this advisory for instructions about an Intel-provided
fix.

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The status of the firebird3.0 source package
in Debian’s testing distribution has changed.

Previous version: 3.0.1.32609.ds4-14
Current version: 3.0.2.32703.ds4-4

IBObjects 5.9.3 Build 2631 is available. For more information please see the Release Notes.

Debian 9 Stretch is released with Firebird 3.0 in repository

Good news from Mark Rotteveel: Jaybird will have wire encryption soon (if you use the pure java wire protocol)

With help of https://t.co/en62y5iEba (and the earlier work by @hajime_nakagami in Jaybird) I think I managed to enable encryption

— Mark Rotteveel (@Avalanche1979) May 28, 2017

Dorin Marcoci created a pull request for PDO Firebird driver and he is looking for testers for Boolean data type support (Firebird 3.0)

#PHP #PDO #Firebird: Boolean data type support: https://t.co/wEWMVcHLVV Testers are welcome!

— Dorin Marcoci (@marcodorin) May 13, 2017