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Firebird Project has now ports for the top4 embedded processors

April 9, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

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

Firebird and Rails using jruby

March 19, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

I’m using last jruby release with rails 2.0.2 and activerecord-jdbc-adapter.

Here is the rest of the article http://www.forniol.cat/?p=91

What is the current status of kinterbasdb?

March 17, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

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

March 15, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

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

March 11, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

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

March 6, 2008 Jiri Cincura Leave a comment

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

February 29, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

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

February 28, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

You can read the progress reports for this year on various engine development areas

AnySQL Maestro released

February 19, 2008 SQL Maestro Team Leave a comment

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.

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