Annoucements about Firebird oficial releases.
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
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.
Currently, if server’s host has more than one IP, FB uses only
first one. Attached patch lets it use up to eight. It’ll allow to
establish Redundant Array of Inexpensive Servers, just having added
more addresses to DNS, thus gaining fail-safety (or/and – if round-
robin turned on – load balancing).
Here is the patch and the thread
Here you can see the package details
Firebird 2.1 Beta 2 is available for field testing on 64-bit and 32-bit Windows and Linux
and you can read full release notes here
http://www.firebirdsql.org/devel/doc/rlsnotes/html …
The Firebird Project team is pleased to announce the release of Firebird v.2.0.3. Kits for Windows and Linux (x86 and x64) are in the Sourceforge repository and should start to appear throughout the day. Enjoy!
The Firebird Project yesterday made a Firebird 2.0.3 release candidate available for field testing
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Firebird, where some have unknown impact and others can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service)
Solution:
Update to version 2.0.2.
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=engine_202
