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News from the Firebird developers.
Improved remote protocol
From Dmitry Yemanov – The remote protocol has been slightly improved to perform better in slow networks. In order to achieve this, more advanced packets batching is now performed, also there are some buffer transmission optimizations. In a real world test scenario, these changes showed about 50% less API roundtrips, thus causing about 40% less TCP roundtrips. Hopefully, this is an improvement some our users could benefit from (mostly it should affect over-the-internet database access).
This work has been committed into the HEAD branch to be included into the next Firebird version. Further protocol improvements are also planned.
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Milliseconds are now stored in the timestamp KInterbasDB + Firebird
David Rushby (the autor of the KInterbasDB) has
solved the problem applying such a feature in the code. Thank you David.
Jaybird V2.1.0 Beta 1 has been released
Jaybird V2.1.0 Beta 1 has been released and is available for download.
New SQL functions
From Dmitry Yemanov – Implementation of a new aggregate function LIST has been committed into the HEAD branch. It’s one of the remaining changes that weren’t ported from the Yaffil codebase yet. There are other built-in functions to port, they will be discussed in firebird-devel later this week.
Linux SS new install package – mainly for slackware
I’ve done some changes regarding SS installation. This mainly deals with
Slackware support, but some changes concerning another things are also
done. Who interested, may try Snapshot builds from
http://www.insi.yaroslavl.ru/fb/.
Alex Peshkov
Are you ready for tpc-c results ?!
Are you ready for TPC-C based test results? Are you looking forward to know who is the winner?!
Be prepared – 4th issue of IBDeveloper is coming soon!
Just take a look on this image – it’s one of our test results:
Want to know who is who? Read our magazine!
IBPhoenix Share Issue
Since IBPhoenix is a UK Ltd company – it has a right to issue shares to potential investors in the company, I have been contemplating this for quite a while, and wondered if there would be any interest out there for Firebird users, companies etc that would like to become shareholders in IBPhoenix? There are a number of reasons for thinking about this… Read more
CVS repository
If you want a fresh copy of firebird but can’t because the problem of
the anonymous CVS, you can download the whole FB CVS tree at:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/firebird-cvsroot.tar.bz2
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