Category: Firebird Releases

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?

I have just remembered that I have a Firebird 1.5 for AIX 5.1.If you want it – please contact me off list and I will send you the tarball of the build.

posted by Paul Beach on firebird-support list

In a chat with Dmitry Yemanov, I was told that Firebird 2.0 RC5 should be out until the end of this week, and it has great chances to become FB 2.0 final release.

Project page www.parmaja.com/projects/firebirdsetup/ or directly download here.

Includes:

• Flamerobin
• FBMonitor
• FirebirdSQL FBConfig + alias manager
• FBServiceMonitor like as apache monitor

Full InnoSetup script inlcuded so you can rebuild the setup again
with your options.

zaher dirkey

Hi, everybody,

After much delay, I’ve finally prepared debian packages of 2.0 branch of firebird. They can be reached at [1]. This is the RC4 release from 13th of August.

These packages conflict with 1.5.3 series, so if you want to give your databases a try (strongly encouraged), backup them with 1.5.3 *before* installing 2.0 packages.

Please give these a hard time testing and don’t forget to send feedback to pkg-firebird-general@lists.alioth.debian.org. Reading Release Notes[2] would help avoiding common problems.

Users of “Intel” version of Apple Macintosh can now download a Firebird 1.5.3 SuperServer version for that platform. Thanks to Gili Buzaglo.

The releases notes for FB 2.0 RC4 is already available here. Installers and binaries are currently being built.