Category: General news

Probably rdb$db_key is the best kept Firebird secret, because it gives the user some extra power to access records in raw mode.

News via via linkedin firebird group

Here you can find result of checking Firebird with PVS-Studio (in Russian).
And now the article is in English too

PVS-Studio is a static analyzer that detects errors in source code of C/C++/C++11 applications

Update: here is the Firebird-Devel discussion on the topic
Also the article is published in English

pyfirebirdsql Version 0.9.0 is released with experimental Firebird 3.0 SRP auth support

See the previous discussion on Firebird-devel list.

Here is the Firebird 3.0 example that works for me

Libreoffice new release with small fix for firebird sql driver fdo#74160 firebird XParameters::setString truncate to 65535 characters [Lionel Elie Mamane]
You can check release note here
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/4.2.1/RC1

Thanks to assistance from Alex, we now have Firebird 3.0 building on MacOSX 10.8 with XCode 4.6.3

Regards
Paul

You can ask on firebird-devel list for the new builds

New release of IBPhoenix Replicator is capable to replicate data from Firebird,
Interbase and Oracle into any of these DBMS and into ODBC data sources as well.

http://www.ibphoenix.com/download/ibreplicator

There is long thread on increasing the passion in Firebird users (Or how can we improve the project).
Alternate threaded view is on gmane.

I liked this response about the long Firebird 3.0 release cycle

To be fair, V3 involved massive changes to the code base – breaking the server into pluggable
pieces so it can handle multiple versions without hugely complicating the code, plus fine grained
multi-threading, plus new security features essential for a contemporary database) and dozens
of other major features.

There are more changes in Firebird V3 than any version I can think of since InterBase V1 to
InterBase V3 … maybe excepting V3 to V4 which added Windows support and SuperServer.
It’s an amazing feat for such a small group, and all the changes are critically important if Firebird
is to succeed in the next decade.

Best regards,

Ann

Active Record Firebird Adapter 0.8.7 updated
Fixes regression affecting delayed_job usage :
When a result set is not returned, exec_query still needs to return the number of rows affected.

Active Record Firebird Adapter 0.8.6 now supports pluck for efficiently retrieving a single column of a result set in an array.

Another change is : Handle cases where sql does not return a result set.