Firebird Roadmap for 2009 and the reality
At the end of the year 2009 we see what Firebird development plans were and what is the reality. (original article is in Polish)
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Django meets Firebird
Nice blog post about firebird and django
I found this nice project Django-Firebird that will make Django able to use Firebird as the database backend. The process of switching from MySQL to Firebird is painless, but there are some adjustment needed.
FBNews is back ;-)
Sorry for the few days off-line. The big increase in the website visitors extrapolated (for the first time) our bandwidth limit. Due to Xmas vacation, I was able to check the problem just today. I have doubled the bandwidth limit. Let the people stay coming 😉
Firebird 2.5 is now reuploaded to #debian experimental
Firebird 2.5 rc1 package is now uploaded and accepted into debian experimental repository.
and here is howto test it
Update:package is reuploaded , some pdf documentation didn’t had the source in the tar, and for the moment the pdf blobs are removed
Firebird birthday party?
From FB events page:
Coming up in 2010 :: Firebird’s 10th birthday, July 31
Watch this space for details of events as plans evolve.
SqueakDBX now supports Firebird
We are glad to announce that we now support Firebird as backend. The good news for us is that it just took 4 hours to get it working and even with the 100% of the tests in green.
OpenDBX supports Firebird since a lot of time but we didn’t have too much time to try it. I wanted to “give a hand” to Norbert generating all dlls for each new release. I didn’t have ever used Firebird neither Sybase. So, I started with Firebird and now it is working like a charm.
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Merry Christmas
We wish all of you, users, developers, etc, a very nice Christmas, and an awesome New Year! In 2.010, Firebird will complete 10 years of existance, and we hope it will be a very special year!
Oracle’s MySQL buy shifts open source database market
MySQL is used in most segments of the fragmented open source database market, including the Web app space, (along with SQLite), the desktop space (along with Firebird), and in the embedded market.
Read full article at SearchEnterpriseLinux.com.
Vote for Firebird
StackOverflow will publish ads for free (only for Open Source projects.) I have made an image for Firebird but lacked rights/points to upload it. Douglas uploaded it, but we need more votes to put the spotlight over our bird. If you have an account in StackOverflow with at last 15 reputation points, please, vote now.
Carlos
FSQL 1.8.2 released
Some changes in the latest version (FSQL v1.8.2, 2009-12-10):
bugfixes: RESTORE command, SHOW INDEX command, SHOW PROC command, executing DDL with AUTODDL OFF
some minor improvements and bugfixes that I do not remember 🙂
support for FB2.5
new commands NBACKUP, NRESTORE
new parametrs for RESTORE (FIX_FSS_DATA, FIX_FSS_METADATA)
commands for managing users via services API now prepended with SVC_MGR, to distinguish them from built-in FB commands.