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Upgrading Firebird provider to Entity Framework Core 7
Upgrading Firebird provider to Entity Framework Core 7 video series on Youtube with Season finale :
News via Jiří Činčura on mastodon :
https://mas.to/@cincura_net/110971543792357505
Firebird 4.0.3 sub-release is available
Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 4.0.3 — the latest point release in the Firebird 4.0 series.
This sub-release offers many bug fixes and also adds a few improvements, please refer to the Release Notes for the full list of changes.
Binary kits for Windows, Linux and Android platforms are immediately available for download.
Firebird 3.0.11 sub-release is available
Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 3.0.11 — the latest point release in the Firebird 3.0 series.
This sub-release offers many bug fixes and also adds a few improvements, please refer to the Release Notes for the full list of changes.
Firebird-driver 1.9.0 released
The firebird-driver package provides official Python Database API 2.0-compliant driver. In addition to the minimal feature set of the standard Python DB API, this driver also exposes the new (interface-based) client API introduced in Firebird 3, and number of additional extensions and enhancements for convenient use of Firebird RDBMS. The driver is written as pure-Python package (requires Python 3.8+) on top of Firebird client library (fbclient.so/dll) using ctypes. Driver supports Firebird version 3.0 and higher.
You can download this driver from PyPI or install it using pip.
This version intruduces initial support for Firebird 5.0 new API and features.
See the Changelog for full details.
New features in Firebird 5, Annual General Meeting, elections, and a bit of Firebird history
In this video we discuss the new features of Firebird 5 with Dmitry Yemanov (core developer, RedSoft), Jason Wharton (IBObjects, Temporary Secretary of Firebird Foundation) and Alexey Kovyazin (IBSurgeon, Firebird Foundation Comittee member), then we announce elections during the Annual General Meeting.
In the end of the video Jason, as one of the founders of Firebird Foundation, remembers how everything started.
July 24: Annual General Meeting of Firebird Foundation
All members of Firebird Foundation – please participate in Annual General Meeting at July 24, 2023! We need to elect new President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer. Email was sent to ffmembers, if you did not receive it, please check your spam folder.
If you do not have access to FFMembers mail list (ffmembers at googlegroups com), please contact Alexey Kovyazin directly (ak at ib-aid com).
Flamerobin 0.9.7 Snapshot released with a few Firebird 4 fixes
Flamerobin 0.9.7 Snapshot released with a few Firebird 4 fixes
- Int128 does not respect scale (Issue #166)
- Make Domain::dataTypeToString able to process fb4 types.
- fix some bugs converting int128/dec34/dec16 to string
- replace CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR to CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR when copy templates in CMakeList.txt by @Khalyutin in PR #310
Saturnin (a Firebird Butler Platform for Python) version 0.8.0 has been released, along with packages with core services and SDK.
Saturnin (a Firebird Butler Platform for Python) version 0.8.0 has been released, along with packages with core services and SDK.
Saturnin can now be considered as early beta. There will be more additions, extensions and improvements before the 1.0 release, but the platform is almost feature-complete, and the functionality provided is considered stable and ready for testing. However, some backwards incompatible changes in future releases are still possible.