Author: mariuz

News via Brent Rowland:
Rails activerecord-fb-adapter v0.9 includes a major overhaul courtesy of Ray Zane. 20x more tests now pass.
Update : now is pushed to rubygems

Firebird can be installed on both Little Endian (ppc64el) and Big Endian(ppc64) versions of Power8 Linux Operating Systems

There was a recent bug in detection of ppc64el (was mis-detected as powerpc64) but now is fixed in Debian

Also if you use other distros on power8 please verify if Firebird platform is detected correctly.

Here are some stats and badges via shields.io
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You can find the download stats on the sourceforge file stats area

Firebird ODBC driver 2.0.3 is released today

Updated information on on the ODBC driver page

ARMv8 X-Gene X-C1 Development Systems, powered by Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, now available through Applied Micro’s developer enablement program.

And you can install Firebird arm64 port on it

On October 24-25, 2014 in Prague, we hosted an international conference of Firebird. Attended by 110 participants, 18 speakers presented 23 interesting presentations.

The conference was open with core developers of Firebird Dmitry Emanov and Vlad Khorsun, with reports about new features of Firebird 3, which is preparing to release in early 2015, and Firebird 4 (2016). The most important news is the reduction of a release cycle, and focus on the fault tolerance and performance.

This year’s conference received a strong Russian presence in addition to core developers from Russia were Pavel Zotov (Firebird QA) with a presentation about a realistic test of highly databases Firebird, Roman Simakov, a leading developer Red Database (commercial version of Firebird with certification for the Russian state organizations ) and Alexey and Dmitry Kuzmenko Kovyazin of IBase.ru ( IBSurgeon ).

In addition, 2 platinum and 1 silver sponsor was from Russia – Moscow Exchange, iBase (IBSurgeon) and RedSoft respectively.
Of course, in addition to Russian, were speakers from the USA, Brazil, UK, France, Netherlands and other countries.

Special guests, speakers at the conference were Ann Harrison and Jim Starkey. Jim Starkey is known for being the original developer of InterBase (back in the 80s), and architect solutions such as Falcon (MySQL), NuoDB, Netfrastructure and AmorphousDB.

Firebird driver developers, Jiri Cincura and Mark Rotteveel, spoke about Firebird.NET and Java. The second talk of Mark’s was about Java and jOOq was also supported by Lucas Eder, original creator of jOOq.

You can download all the presentations from the conference as a single archive:
firebirdsql.org/file/community/conference-2014/pdf/firebird_conference_2014_presentations.zip
or view them separately (along with some selected photos from the conference):
ib-aid.com/en/articles/firebird-conference-2014-report-ibsurgeon/

Original article
http://habrahabr.ru/post/243855/

This mostly bugfix version introduces a backward incompatible change to events API, so read the Release Notes before deployment.

IPv6 support is now landed in firebird trunk , please test ipv6 support from Firebird 3.x snapshots for Linux and Windows.
Thanks to Michal Kubecek for his contribution

You can read Developers reports from previous months (until September/October)

• Pavel Zotov, 2014-10
• Philippe Makowski, 2014-10
• Alexander Potapchenko, 2014-10
• Alex Peshkov,2014-10
• Jiri Cincura,2014-10
• Other Core developer reports

ps:I didn’t remember to be posted here on FirebirdNews .
You can view also the presentation/reports from Firebird conference