News from the Firebird developers.
Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 is released with firebird2.0 and flamerobin included in their repository
Here is an easy guide for installing firebird2.0 and then follow the flamerobin 0.8.6 guide
ps: soon there will be an firebird2.1 package for ubuntu created (it wasn’t possible to include it in this short period of time after release)
Firebird Project has now ports for the top4 embedded processors used in small devices like phones
The top cpu used in that area are arm,x86,mips,powerpc according to linuxdevices survey
http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/article077/embedded_processor_current_trend.jpg
Here are the build results for firebird2.0 package on debian on main cpu architectures used in debian
http://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=firebird2.0
The latest port is for arm cpu , and here is the devel-thread
http://www.nabble.com/arm-port-patch-td16497801.html
We finally solved the last major problem in the Firebird 2.0x build for Solaris 10 AMD 64bit. Whenever we tried to include editline in the build isql_static would coredump. We tracked the problem down
I’m using last jruby release with rails 2.0.2 and activerecord-jdbc-adapter.
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As you may know, the KInterbasDB project is without maintainer, and
because Firebird project depends on it (for QA and other things), we
have to do something to ensure it’s bright future. I have considered the
option to take over this project, but at the end we decided to fork it
under Firebird Project for next reasons:
Finally, the new PEAR::MDB2 1.5.0beta1 is out!
The number of fixed bugs and new features since the last stable release is impressive. The bravest of you that already installed the alpha version may have tried some of these already,
Firebird Remove Buffer Overflow Proof of concept was posted on BugTraq
The bug is the one fixed in the next stable releases and is not present in firebird 2.1 rc1& rc2 here is the description:
Integer overflow in Firebird SQL 1.0.3 and earlier, 1.5.x before 1.5.6, 2.0.x before 2.0.4, and 2.1.x before 2.1.0 RC1 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code
The new version of FirebirdClient (ADO.NET Data Provider) is available for download: http://firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=netprovider .
It’s mainly a bugfix release. Work on Entity Framework support still continues.
freebsd 7.0 is released and firebird 2.0.3 port is included
i’m impressed by the firebird ports collection (fpc, php 5.2.5,qt4, ruby , perl , python ,php4)
You can read the progress reports for this year on various engine development areas
