Category: General news

I think it is time for updating the WordPress’s theme used in FirebirdNews. The actual theme is based in the Firefox theme (old and no more maintained) and doesn’t support well some of the new features available in the most recent versions of WordPress.

WordPress has thousands of themes, and choosing the right one is a difficult task, when so many choices are available. So, if you know a good and beautiful theme that could be used in this site, please comment below.

Remember that we are a news site, so theme should fit this purpose. Also, it should has no cost (meaning it should be free or donated)

Mark Rotteveel tweeted about his progress towards using JNA instead of JNI:

Continuing my adventure with JNA for Firebird native client and embedded support in Jaybird 3.0, so I can remove existing JNI wrapper.

Github model for contributions really works : here is the project pulse for last month.

There are quite a few pull requests closed and merged for .NET Provider

FreeBSD port is updated to Firebird 2.5.3 . Please consult the release notes

ps: Unicode patch is not needed anymore (Fix included in 2.5.3 release)

pyfirebirdsql Version 0.9.4 is released
with following changes:

• – Fixed Cursor.rowcount.
• – Cursor.callproc() return out parameters.
• – Cursor.execute() return cursor instance itself.

You can consult the Commit History

The pure JavaScript Node.js Firebird driver is updated with a few code cleanups and documentations updates 

• Added Detaching event loop example
• Charset warning : Charset for database connection is always UTF-8
• Added License info to the package.json
• Cleanup unused constants (Dead platforms : VMS …)

You can install or update from npmjs and you can consult the Commit History

Ruby Firebird Extension Library 0.7.4 release fixes a scaling bug in fb for 32-bit architectures
and now builds cleanly and passes tests on Ruby 1.8.6 thru 2.1.0

News via Brent Rowland

Paul Vinkenoog wrote about the Language Reference Progress (Select section 80% complete in DML chapter)
The latest sources are in CVS (manual/src/docs/refdocs/langref/langref25/)

The SELECT section is now about 80% ready. The only subsections that still need to be completed are ORDER BY, FOR UPDATE and WITH LOCK.
The other DML sections should be complete and correct.

ps: this progress status is related to DML chapter status not the other chapters

If you want to translate you can contact firebird-docs

The Russian Misson Control Center uses Firebird.

I quote Alex Peshkoff on the Firebird Development list

FYI – our colleagues from the Mission Control Center tested format of
VMT in the following environment
Intel(R) Itanium(R) Processor 9310
HP-UX B.11.31
HP C/aC++ Version A.06.26

and it differs from what we have on windows/linux. I do not have access
to that box myself, so I can’t report what is actually that format. But
an attempt to access it as we do on windows/linux cause an error.

I have asked Alex and is confirmed

Q: Can you confirm this news ? , I have saw it on ibphoenix and then
Adriano asked if is true
Alex:
I never use twitter (and same sites), but looking at subj I can say – yes, they do.
And they use it on rather specific HW, including itanium with HPUX.