Annoucements about Firebird oficial releases.
The recent release of Firebird version 2.1.1 is very welcome.
Here are a few of the fixes I consider important for 2.1 production servers and so recommend the update:
The complete list of bugs fixed and the downloads are at the Firebird SQL website.
The Firebird Team is pleased to let loose the first Alpha of Firebird 2.5, more or less feature-complete and ready to field-test. Kits are available for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows and Linux. So – please test it well and report your experiences (good or bad) to the firebird-devel list.
Do make a point of studying the release notes (available on-line and also in the download kits) as V.2.5 is to be a macro release introducing the architecture that will progress into Firebird 3 as full support for fine-grained multi-threading and SMP.
You may have heard of “Ubuntu Netbook Remix”, a special edition of Ubuntu for so called “netbooks“, which was showcased by Canonical at Computex.
In ubuntu atom cpu is named lpia and firebird/flamerobin builds just fine on it (is low power x86 so it should be ok)
From this table you can see that firebird builds on both ARM and ARMEL ( ARMEL is just ARM with some hardware extras.) and here is the buildlog
If you use debian then you can download from here
Quote from linux tiny mailing list about the ARM market share
According to http://eetimes.eu/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199702110
Arm shipped the processors in 250 million “smart phones” in 2006 (83%
market share in that niche).
Firebird 2.1.x will be included in the top most popular linux distributions
Here are the Firebird 2.0.4 packages for OpenSuse and the link for database repository and one click install
As you may have noticed, debian experimental got firebird2.0 (2.0.4) and
firebird2.1 (2.1.0).
I would really appreciate if you give these some testing.
If you watch the debian building logs for different architectures then there are a few ones left to be done , Itanium , Hppa and Alpha (dead one)
http://buildd.debian.org/build.cgi?pkg=firebird2.0
and seem that this will be solved very soon
The security bug is now fixed in debian experimental
and here is the changelog
