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Security Updates for Firebird 2.5.2 and Firebird 2.1.5 are released

March 26, 2013 mariuz Leave a comment

The Firebird Project releases important security updates addressing a remote stack buffer overflow discovered in the Firebird Server during March, 2013.

This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated user to crash the server and opens a gate for remote code execution, so it’s highly recommended to upgrade your server installations. Security updates are available for Firebird 2.5.2 and Firebird 2.1.5 versions. They don’t include any changes other than the bugfix for the aforementioned buffer overrun.

http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-2-5/

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.0.8.

March 21, 2013 mariuz Leave a comment

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.0.8.

This is a bug fix release, built with the current fpc 2.6.2. The
previous release 1.0.6 was built with 2.6.0.

Here is the list of changes for Lazarus and Free Pascal:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.0_fixes_branch#Fixes_for_1.0.8
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.6.2

The release is available for download at SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/

Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the “Lazarus 1.0.8” directory.

Minimum requirements:
Windows: 98, 2k, XP, Vista, 7, 32 or 64bit
FreeBSD/Linux: gtk 2.8 or qt4.5, 32 or 64bit
Mac OS X: 10.5, LCL only 32bit, non LCL apps can be 64bit

Important #debian security fix is uploaded to sid related to CVE-2013-2492

March 18, 2013 mariuz Leave a comment

Important Debian security fix is uploaded to sid http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/firebird2.5/news/20130318T154817Z.html

You can check Firebird 2.5/2.1 packages security status for this bug CVE-2013-2492 on this page

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-2492

German court case confirms validity of the LGPL on Firebird related project FreeadhocUDF

March 17, 2013 mariuz Leave a comment

Buhl Data Service GmbH, the developer of the WISO Mein Büro2009 software has agreed to pay €15,000 (approximately £13,000) to adhoc dataservice GmbH for using its LGPL-licensed FreeadhocUDF open source library in his business software without observing the LGPL’s licensing terms. The GNU Lesser Public Licence allows software to be used free of charge, but it stipulates that developers must give prominent notice to where the licensed code was used, point out that the code is under the LGPL, include a copy of the LGPL, and make the library’s source code available.

The payment was negotiated as a settlement between the involved parties and concludes a court case. Back in January 2011, the regional court in Bochum, Germany, had ruledthat the use of the FreeadhocUDF library in WISO Mein Büro 2009 was not legitimate because it violated the LGPL’s licensing terms. The court ruled that adhoc dataservice GmbH was, therefore, entitled to know in which products the library was used, what product quantities were released, and how much revenue was generated.

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YiiFirebird 1.0 is marked as stable we need more volunteers for writing and doing tests

March 15, 2013 mariuz Leave a comment

It seems that now the YiiFirebird extension is stable enough (please let me know it is not so) for merge in YiiFramework master repo.
Now, the next step is to create the automated tests for this extension. Volunteers? Ideas?
We need to add a “tests” directory for that purpose in our local repo before committing Yii master repo.
Example: https://github.com/yiisoft/yii/blob/master/tests/framework/db/schema/CPostgresTest.php

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Firebird Foundation will have Annual General Meeting at March 20, 13. Join FF now

March 15, 2013 mariuz Leave a comment

Firebird Foundation, the non-profit organization which finances Firebird development, will have Annual General Meeting (AGM) at March 20, 2013.

The AGM addresses the issues that are required to continue functioning from year to year: review the finances, hear what the committee(s) have been doing, elect a new committee.

This is a good moment to join Firebird Foundation as voting ($300) or associate ($50) member.