Annoucements about Firebird oficial releases.
the freshports page is here.
What is a port?
A port is the term used to describe a collection of files which makes it extremely easy to install an application. As it says in the FreeBSD Ports description: Installing an application is as simple as downloading the port, unpacking it and typing make in the port directory.
The Firebird Project yesterday evening officially released the much-anticipated Version 2.0 of the Firebird relational database during the opening session of the fourth international Firebird conference. This release brings a large collection of long-awaited enhancements that significantly improve performance, functionality, security and international language support.
It was announced at the Firebird Conference in Prague, Czech Republic
Hi all, I [Jakub Zeman] fixed firebird 2.0 RC4 for MAC OS X. You will need following tools:
Two Linux ports have been contributed recently – MIPSEL and PowerPC (credits go to Fabrice Aeschbacher and Damyan Ivanov). Also, Paul Beach has ported v1.5.3 to HP-UX (already available for download) and Alex Peshkoff has almost completed porting the same version to AIX. And finally, port to Win64 (so far AMD64 and EM64T only) is committed into the HEAD branch and will be available in the v2.1 release.
via Firebird Developer’s Journal
The Firebird 2 Quick Start Guide is now 100% ready, and available at this URL
http://www.firebirdsql.org/pdfmanual/Firebird-2.0-QuickStart.pdf
The CVS tree has been tagged for the final v2.0 release. The builds will be available for download as soon as they pass the QA procedures. [From: Dmitry Yemanov/Firebird Developer’s Journal]
Rebuilt Windows kits are now available and are making their way to the mirrors.
From Dmitry Yemanov:
Windows builds of Firebird 2.0 Release Candidate 5 have been released with an issue related to the INTL support. This is not a bug in the code, but a build/packaging issue. One of the ICU libraries (icudt30.dll) got built wrongly. We apologize for inconvenience, the builds are to be fixed and re-released shortly. In the meantime, icudt30.dll from the RC4 package would fix the issue.
Get your copy now! Probably this will become FB 2.0 final release 🙂
maximshiryaev asked on support :
What are the plans for Win64 (AMD) platfrom for FB2?
