Author: mariuz

Firebird connector for Yii2 framework 0.6  is released .

The list of changes can be consulted in the commits list.

Here is the pull request if you are in a hurry (tests do not pass yet).

Nan v2.0 or newer is needed to work with the new Node v4.0.

Post by AlexeyKovyazin on habrahabr :

Many readers  interested Firebird, may know that last year we saw releasead documentation on Firebird SQL language in Russian version 2.5.Creating documentation is sponsored the Moscow Stock Exchange as a platinum sponsor and one of the largest users of Firebird in Russia, and the company IBSurgeon / IBase, representing Firebird in Russia.

But this work is not over:

We began translating and proofreading of documents in English, German and Portuguese. Helen Borrie, the author of the famous Firebird book , is the editor of the English edition. We expect to publish the English version in October this year, Portuguese and German versions – early next year. At the same time in the Russian original documentation of 2.5 there were made ​​over 1,000 corrections and additions (thanks to Denis Simonov, editor of the Russian version), as well as we conducted a lot of work on Reference documentation for version 3.0. We recommend to download an updated version of the Firebird 2.5 documentation in Russian and get acquainted with the beta version 3.0 documentation for Firebird: www.ib-aid.com/download/firebirdlangref30rus.pdf .If you find an error or typo in the documentation, do not hesitate and send bug-report directly to the Tracker for Russian developer documentation: www.assembla. com / spaces / firebird-russian-documentation / . In the Files group you can download the latest version of the documentation.

Firebird Project and the company IBSurgeon (IBase.ru) announced that Firebird SQL administrators and developers are invited to a free seminar on working with Big Firebird Databases. The workshop will be held  on October 21, 2015 in Moscow. To participate in the seminar is by invitation only – see Below. Brief seminar topics:

1. Backup of large databases.
2. Optimize performance in large databases.
3. An example of analyzing the structure of the production database of 1 terabyte in size.
4. Replication.
5. Scaling, clustering.

Details here: ibase.ru/firebirdtour2016.html

Due to the limited places to visit you must get an invitation to the seminar. To receive an invitation, write to support@ibase.ru marked “Seminar BBD” and brief information about your company and the database (size, number of users, application area). If your database is larger than 500GB, you’ll definitely get a invitation if less, depending on availability.

MWA Software is pleased to announce that IBX for Lazarus release 1.3.1 is now available for download.

This release includes some minor bug fixes for the IBControls, several important (albeit obscure) bug fixes in the main ibx source, and support for console mode programs.

Jan Svoboda added initial Firebird Sql support to Redmine project management software.
Feedback is welcome.

Support for RC4 wire encryption is now merged in Jaybird using java builtin RC4 and stream io framework.

FDB Python driver for Firebird v1.4.10 is available for download . This
is pure bugfix release.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb

An in depth article describing relational database internals.
There are various Firebird Design documents on ibphoenix.com also another paper on Firebird Conceptual Architecture.