Author: mariuz

The FireBird RDBMS can be crashed remotely by an authenticated client
by invoking gbak via the service manager using invalid command line
switch and lead to denial of service.

The issue was introduced in version 2.5.5.

Upstream report:
http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-5068

Upstream fix: 
http://sourceforge.net/p/firebird/code/62783/

Debian bug:
https://bugs.debian.org/810599

CVE-2016-1569 Status in Debian:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1569

Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2015 at LinuxQuestions (must be registered user with at least one Linux related post)

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2015-linuxquestions-org-members-choice-awards-117/database-of-the-year-4175562708/

FirebirdWebAdmin 3.3.0 is released .

Changes :

Review User Page. Modal popup for Role creation. Delete role button for each role.
Users: Remove “Customizing” panel. Is not database/server related.
Initial integration with Crowdin. Convert all files to UTF-8.
Update Romanian & Russian translations.
UI improvements: Roles, Users, Exceptions, UDF, Table comments.
Integration with CodeMirror.
In-browser code editor http://codemirror.net/

Now we have autocomplete/suggestions with table names and fields and SQL reserved words.

Hajime Nakagami created an pure Erlang Firebird client library (Work in progress)

https://github.com/nakagami/efirebirdsql

Mark Rotteveel published a new Jaybird 3.0.0-SNAPSHOT version for testing.

Release notes available at:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/drivers_documentation/java/3.0.0-SNAPSHOT/release_notes.html

We would really appreciate it if people would start testing Jaybird 3 with
their applications and report problems or incompatibilities.

For Maven it is available from the Sonatype OSS snapshot repository
(https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots) which you need
to add to your maven config or POM.

It is also uploaded to sourceforge:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-jca-jdbc-driver/3.0.0-SNAPSHOT

Thank you to all what was participated to improve translations of FirebirdWebAdmin!

German: 100% done! Thanks to Martin Köditz!
Polish: Amost done. Thanks to Piotr Czepek and Grzegorz Skoczylas!
Czech: New translation language. Thanks to Tomas Krejzek!
Spanish: Thanks to Duilio Juan Isola!
Portuguese, Brazilian: Thanks to Paulo Junqueira da Costa!
Dutch: Thanks to LucavanB!
Romanian: New translation language. Will be translated step by step by me 🙂

If you want to help us to cover all translations you can join in our project:
https://crowdin.com/project/firebirdwebadmin

Create Firebird application using the various components and drivers: FireDac

Article in Russian:
http://habrahabr.ru/post/273549/

Google Translation is here (quite readable).

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP
7.0.1. Several bugs have been fixed. All PHP 7.0 users are encouraged to
upgrade to this version.

For source downloads of PHP 7.0.1 please visit our downloads page:
http://www.php.net/downloads.php

Windows binaries can be found on http://windows.php.net/download/

The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog:
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-7.php#7.0.1

Jason Warton announced his thoughts about IBO6 on IB Objects support list.