News from the Firebird developers.
Jaybird 3.0.0-beta-3 is available for download and testing. More in formation can be found in the full release notes.
Jaybird 3.0.0-beta-3 is expected to be the last test release before the final Jaybird 3.0.0 release.
— Mark Rotteveel (@Avalanche1979) March 5, 2017
IBSurgeon has released the complete trial kit for Firebird encryption, which includes fully functional time-limited AES256 encryption plugin and demo application (in Delphi) to demonstrate how to connect to the encrypted database.
The trial kit is designed for the following:
1) Easy performance testing of the existing databases with the encryption: you can encrypt database on the server and test your existing applications without changing them.
2) Implement client-side security: there is a simple example of Delphi application (sources included) which demonstrates how to send the key from the client to the server.
Download Firebird encryption plugin and example of a client application.
LibreOffice 5.3 is coming soon – it’s due to be released in early February. What have the developers been working on?
Find out in new contributor interview, with Tamás Bunth:
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2017/01/24/libreoffice-contributor-interview-tamas-bunth/
Ransomware attacks became the serious problem for many companies: during the last week, we had 3 incidents from different customers which had their Firebird databases encrypted by ransomware viruses. Luckily we were able to help all of them, but the scale of the problem definitely increases.
Read new article: https://ib-aid.com/en/articles/how-to-protect-firebird-databases-from-ransomware/
SQL Security clause part of SQL Standard (2003, 2011) Feature is implemented in Firebird master git tree.
Hello!
Since you already have made a pause in your work and came here, we are offering to you look at the short review of testing Firebird through IBProvider.
http://www.ibprovider.com/eng/news/n_160908.html
With Best Regards,
IBProvider Team
