Editline, Curses and Solaris AMD64
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
Category: Developer News
News from the Firebird developers.
Firebird and Rails using jruby
I’m using last jruby release with rails 2.0.2 and activerecord-jdbc-adapter.
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What is the current status of kinterbasdb?
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: Read more
PEAR MDB2 2.5.0b1 released
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 remote BOF POC
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
FirebirdClient 2.5.0 Alpha 2 released
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 released – firebird 2.0.x included
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)
Firebird Developer Progress Reports for this year
You can read the progress reports for this year on various engine development areas
AnySQL Maestro released
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SQL Maestro Group announces the release of AnySQL Maestro – a freeware, but powerful tool for all the database engines accessible via ODBC driver or OLE DB provider (Access, SQL Server, Firebird, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc). Key features include database object management, graphical database designer, visual query builder, data export and import, BLOB Viewer/Editor, and a lot of other things.
AnySQL Maestro has been successfully tested with Firebird ODBC drivers 1.xx and 2.0 beta and all the latest Firebird server versions up to 2.1. |
SQLAlchemy 0.4.3 released
We’re getting the current batch of new stuff out the door, with plenty
more waiting to fill into the next trunk. Theres a broad variety of
new things here which are summarized below.
Download SQLA 0.4.3 at: http://www.sqlalchemy.org/download.html
Full changes:http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.sqlalchemy.user/11726/