Category: General news

A new TurboBird fork is released with Firebird5 features

New and Improved Features

Dynamic Firebird Data Type Handling
– All Firebird data types are now loaded dynamically at runtime, making TurboBird largely version-independent.

Package Support
– You can now create and edit Firebird packages directly within TurboBird.

UDR Support (User Defined Routines)
– TurboBird can now create, edit, and execute user-defined routines (UDRs), including parameters and results.

Unified Routine Runner
A single routine runner now supports:

– UDFs
– UDRs
– Stored Procedures
– Functions

New releases are here
https://github.com/mdadali/TurboBird/releases

Also you can find the changelog in the tagged release
https://github.com/mdadali/TurboBird/releases/tag/TurboBird_v1.2.1.1262

MWA Software is pleased to announce the release of version 2.7.8 of IBX for Lazarus. This release is a bug fix release fixing several minor bugs – see changelog for details. The resolved issues apply to the design time editors. All users are recommended to upgrade to this version.

In this release:

1. Fixed corruption in idmodifysqleditor.lfm. Using this editor should no longer
   result in an access violation.
2. Design Time SQL Editors: Table Names are now shown in alphabetical order.
3. IBSQL Editor: changing the “Use System Tables” checkbox should now refresh table list.
4. Design Time Editors: Replaced embedded SQL Literals with constants
5. Allow for alternative all upper case SQL literals or first letter UC only.
   Selected by defining the symbol GENERATE_SQL_ALL_UPPERCASE in design/IBSQLEditFrame.pas
   or in the Custom Options for dclibx.

ADO.NET Data provider FirebirdClient 10.3.4.0 is released with a few fixes

Mark Rotteveel released a new version of jaybird-embedded-win32-x86-64:5.0.3.0-alpha-1, providing the Firebird 5.0.3 win32-x86-64 binaries (that is: 64-bit Windows).

For more details, see
https://github.com/mrotteveel/jaybird-embedded-win32-x86-64

Ruby Firebird Extension Library Update to 0.10.0 with following changes :

• Support for Ruby 3.2 #79
• Clear input buffer memory after allocating it to remove garbage #81
• Adapted to Ruby3.4 by using TypedData #85
• Fixed Firebird 5 compatibility (SQL_INT128)
• Improve sql_decimal_to_bigdecimal.
• Fixed build on MacOS.

PHP Firebird driver 6.1.1-RC.2 is released . Please test thoroughly and report any issues.

Changes since v6.1.1-RC.1 :

• New functions ibase_get_client_major_version(), ibase_get_client_minor_version()
• Addressed issues: #22, #78, #88, #91, #92, #95, #96

Possible breaking changes:

• ibase_close() now closes connection instantly instead of decreasing refcount (see more #22)
• fetching TIME fields with IBASE_UNIXTIME flag now returns time as string instead of negative values

PHP Firebird driver 6.1.1-RC.1 is released , Please test thoroughly and report any issues

Changes since v6.1.1-RC.0 :

• New function ibase_get_client_version()
• Don’t depend on fb_get_master_interface() and fb_get_statement_interface() at compile time. Rather dynamically check if fbclient has them.
• Bunch of smaller fixes

Firebirust v0.5.3 is released with a few changes :

This release adds inspectable column metadata to statements, tightens and cleans up several internal APIs, expands tests

Highlights

• Add column inspection API on Statement and StatementAsync:
• column_count()
• column_names() -> Vec<&str>
• column_metadata(col: usize) -> Option<(sqltype, sqlscale, sqlsubtype, sqllen, null_ok, fieldname, relname, ownname)>
• Improved test coverage — sync and async tests now assert column count, names, and metadata.
• Internal refactor:
• SQL type constants promoted to crate root.
• Many protocol/constants now have crate-level visibility (pub(crate)).
• XSQLVar made crate-private (pub(crate)); parsing now uses utils:: helpers.

PyFirebirdSql 1.4.1 is released with a few bug fixes and internal changes :

• Drop Python2.7, 3.8, 3.9 support
• create pyproject.toml and remove setup.py
• fix timeout parameter #125
• test with pytest

A modern C++ wrapper for the Firebird database API.

Documentation | Repository

fb-cpp provides a clean, modern C++ interface to the Firebird database engine. It wraps the Firebird C++ API with RAII principles, smart pointers, and modern C++ features.

Features Modern C++: Uses C++20 features for type safety and performance

• RAII: Automatic resource management with smart pointers
• Type Safety: Strong typing for database operations
• Exception Safety: Proper error handling with exceptions
• Boost Integration: Optional Boost.DLL for loading fbclient and Boost.Multiprecision support for large numbers

News via  Firebird-Devel group