Annoucements about Firebird oficial releases.
Firebird 3.0 is now uploaded and accepted into official Debian experimental repository (this is the first upload so things will break also you must backup database from 2.5 and restore into 3.0)
You can read install guide for firebird 3.0 on howto access the experimental repository.
You can check what bugs are already fixed in the next version of Firebird and
review the generated changelog
I was interested in the freebsd related building issues
People moving to FB 2.5.0 may be asking if it is safe to copy the security2.fdb file from previous versions of Firebird to Firebird 2.5, keeping the users previously created, so avoiding to recreate them.
In theory, copying the file should work, but with no guarantees. Firebird 2.5 uses a new ODS (11.2). You can do a backup/restore in FB 2.5 to update the ODS of security2.fdb, but some problems will still persists, regarding the use of the new role RDB$ADMIN (which gives SYSDBA rights to “normal” users) – in this case, normal users who were granted RDB$ADMIN role, will have problems to use the new SQL commands CREATE/ALTER/DROP USER. Note: Firebird 2.5.1 will bring a sql script to fix this problem.
So, the safest way to move users to FB 2.5 right now, is to recreate them in Firebird 2.5, either using gsec.exe or the new CREATE USER statement.
Thanks to Dmitry Yemanov for detailed information about the problem.
Here is my guide to install Firebird from official tar.gz archive
Recorded Firebird Launch webinar is available at http://www.mindthebird.com/download/firebird25launchwebinar041010.zip .
Debian packages for the official Firebird 2.5.0 release are available. Because Debian is in a “freeze”, preparing for its stable release, these were uploaded to the experimental distribution.
I just made available for the public, the (Portuguese-Brasil) translated version of the Firebird 2.5 Press Release!
Thanks to all FB developers for the great work!
Firebird 2.5 is out!
Don’t forget to join the webinar using the link (13h GMT):
www.livemeeting.com/cc/fbcon2010/join?id=46D79S&role=attend
Philippe Makowski (president of the Firebird Foundation) and Dmitry Yemanov (chief of the development team) will be present.
Today the Firebird 2.5 is being released. You can read the press release and most importantly release notes. And sure, you can download it and use/test/deploy.
Congratulation to us, the Firebird Project, especially the core team. And also to you, users, I hope you’ll enjoy and like the new Firebird 2.5 version as we (I) do.
Note: The MindTheBird campaign team will run a webinar today at 13:00 GMT in anticipation of the launch of Firebird 2.5 Final Release. See the details.
I quoted from Jiri blog
Firebird 2.5 release date is set to October 4, 2010.
Please join Philippe Makowski, President of Firebird Foundation, and Dmitry Yemanov, lead Firebird developer, at the Launch Webinar devoted to the 5th major release of Firebird. It will take place at October 4, 2010, at 13-00 GMT.
Link for Firebird 2.5 Webinar is
https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/fbcon2010/join?id=46D79S&role=attend
If you have any questions regarding Firebird 2.5, please feel free to contact us: launch@mindthebird.com
