Annoucements about Firebird oficial releases.
I have just finished writing a depot install for Firebird Classic 2.0x on HPUX . A depot install is the HP equivalent of a Linux rpm or Solaris package. The operating system install uninstall utilities take command of looking after the files. Although in more complex areas you still have to have the relevant postinstall and postremove scripts to handle things like links etc.
Today I put the finishing touches to a native 64bit port of Firebird for MacOS 10.5 (Leopard).
This required the following changes to the Firebird 2.1 code base (B2_1_Release). For anybody else considering adding a new platform to Firebird then you may find this useful.
The v2.1 release branch has just been forked off from HEAD, all the v2.1
specific changes will go there. The RC1 release is currently being QA’d,
the binaries will be available shortly.
HEAD is now open for commits and represents the v2.5 development cycle.
The B3_0_Transition branch will be merged into HEAD later this week.
Dmitry
I have just released a classic version of Firebird V2.03 for HPUX 11. This is a 64bit version for PA-RISC 2.0. The current install mechanism as per Firebird 1.5.x uses a tar file and scripts to install firebird into /opt/firebird etc. I think the time has now come to try and write a depot file so that we can use the HPUX installer to install firebird.
The Firebird Project team is pleased to announce the release of Firebird 1.5.5. This bug-fix release adds no new features but addresses a few bugs and security issues that have turned up in the 11 months since v.1.5.4.
You can install firebird 2.0.x on these new ports for debian : kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 powerpc sparc
The Release Candidate of Firebird 1.5.5 is now available for testing. This sub-release introduces a few bug and security fixes backported from the Firebird 2.0.x branches. These test builds are available for Windows and Linux 32-bit platforms. You can download it here.
If anybody is interested in testing the following:
http://www.ibphoenix.com/downloads/firebirdCS-2.0.3-13023-i386.pkg.zip
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Regards
Paul Beach
The new ubuntu 7.10 includes firebird 2.0.3 stable
Here is the package description , Here is how to install
New Roadmap is under discussion in the Admin group, but based on what Dmitry Yemanov said in the Hamburg conference, next version of FB 2.1 shall be a Release Candidate, and if nothing wrong is found, the other one will be the final release (hopefully out still in this year).
For those dreaming with FB 3.0, probably there will be an intermediate release (2.5?) released before it.
