Firebird related news
PHPNG (next generation) is the branch for the next php release (PHP 7). There are a few steps for firebird extension (ibase) in order to work with the new engine : You can clone the repository and test php master branch from git.
The extension changelog is here.
(There are a few patches already submitted by Dmitry Stogov)
ps: pdo_firebird seems already supported and is in the list of extensions already converted
Update: phpng is merged into php master branch
Firebird Developers Day is in today (15/Aug) editions of the “Jornal de Piracicaba” and “A Tribuna Piracicabana” newspapers.
Active Record Firebird Adapter 0.8.9 is updated with a few cleanups and fixes:
Changed quotes behavior for dialect 1 (an ancient Firebird dialect)
IBSurgeon is glad to announce new version of Firebird maintenance, backup and anti-corruption tool FBDataGuard 3.0. New version contains many visual improvements, including completely new web interface with enhanced localization (English, Russian and Brazil Portuguese).
Now FBDataGuard also supports compression of backups up to 12Gb in size. There are also several minor bug fixes.
More details and download: www.ib-aid.com/en/fbdataguard/
Read this page for the new features. This version contains huge modifications done by Reinier Olislagers (BigChimp).
There are Linux 32/64 bits, Windows 32/64 bits Download binaries. You can install the source and compile it using Lazarus in any other Platform that already supported by Lazarus.
Here you can find the latest stable release Firebird 2.5.3 for LTS supported Ubuntu releases.
Follow the Firebird 2.5.x guide for usage and installation.
This is an update from upstream 2.5.3
Database .NET is an innovative, powerful and intuitive multiple database management tool, With it you can Browse objects, Design tables, Edit rows, Export data and Run queries with a consistent interface.
New features from 11.8 to 12.3 (2014/07/29)
You’re welcome to download it from http://fishcodelib.com/Database.htm
Free, All-In-One, Portable, Standalone (No Installation) and Multlanguage.
New Flamerobin snapshot for Linux x86-64 is released this one was built and static linked with WxWidgets 3.0.1 and boost 1.55
to use it from console type :
cd Downloads
tar -xJvf ~/Downloads/flamerobin-0.9.3-ff8df8e-x86_64.tar.xz
sudo mv opt/flamerobin /opt
/opt/flamerobin/bin/flamerobin
ps:tested on Debian sid and Ubuntu 14.04 (I’m interested if it starts on other linuxes : Fedora , Gentoo , Arch , Slackware)
libfbclient.so.2 is required
