Category: Developer News
News from the Firebird developers.
Progress on kinterbasdb 3.3 – xmas present
The initial version of kinterbasdb v3.3 was committed to subversion
(trunk). It’s basically v3.3 by David Rushby + fixes to v3.2 line we
made to make it work with FB 2.1. Source tarball and windows binaries
for fb 2.x & python 2.5/2.6 for testing should be available soon. Now
I’m working on documentation as this version introduces some important
new functionality (above all support for multiple transactions per
connection). I’ll also check the transliteration issue. If everything
would go smoothly, you can expect the final release before Christmas 😉
best regards
Pavel Cisar
IBPhoenix
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Zend framework 1.7 released
Here is the download and release link . Thanks to Luiz Fernando Firebird Suport is included
Flamerobin + Firebird 2.1.1 on Windows7
I have tested the firebird 2.1.1 classic and flamerobin 0.9 on an Windows7 system
The setup went this way Next Next Next without issues
Morfik releases version 2.0 with Firebird 2.1 bundled
Morfik Technologies released, this week, version 2.0 of its flagship AppsBuilder product. The new release of the web application development tools adds a multitude of visual design oriented features.
In addition to these features, Morfik AppsBuilder 2.0 now includes Firebird 2.1 as its bundled database.
Ubuntu announces ARM port – Firebird port ready
Firebird 2.1 and Flamerobin 0.9 added to altlinux
Firebird 2.1.1 and Flamerobin 0.9 are added to altlinux.Also latest odbc driver for firebird and mono 2.0.1
AltLinux is an Linux distro that will be used in all the Russian Schools
Other related news about altlinux you can grab from google
[Ed:so this is a big thing , imagine that firebird will be available to every kid or school there , also in Brazil they will have linux on ~50,000,000 desktops for kids , what we need now is some good translated books and documentation]
New IBProvider support of 49 code pages
The new IBProvider version:
- Support of 49 Firebird and Interbase code pages including UNICODE_FSS, UTF8 and OCTETS binary data. Supported character sets.
- Possible provider operation without registration in the system via manifest file.
The article: Example of working with Firebird and Interbase without registering additional components. - Prevention of memory leaks in Firebird client during library unloading.
- Specific errors have been fixed.
Read details on: Firebird driver news channel
Firebird Gets the Eye of the Sphinx- full-text search engine
Sphinx is a very powerful and popular free open source full-text search engine. A few days ago, Sphinx 0.9.8.1 was released. Vlad Khorsun and Pierre Yager made a patch for Sphinx to support Firebird. Their patches and Windows binary are available to download and try out.
It’s an great search engine used a lot in the LAMP world So now for example if you create and phpbb site with firebird back end , you can use sphinx for indexing and fast search. Another idea is : use it to index the whole database if you have large quantities of text and you need to search for keywords (an movie comments database for example)