Firebird related news
Download,
http://www.ibphoenix.com/download/ibreplicator
Release Notes
Version 4.0.7 – 14th November 2011
New Features: None.
Bug Fixes:
Fix sending of mail.
Fix occasional Linux daemon startup issue.
Fix Replication Manager loading of configuration if it was opened via the
“Create” option.
Fix password decode on some Linuxes.
Fix issues after an Oracle connection fails.
Here is the download page and you can check the Commit History for interesting changes.
Under Windows
Unzip, modify config.js for your DB. Run:
node.exe test.jsOn the Firebird Facebook page there are some cool pictures from the conferece
WITH RECURSIVE example with Firebird 2.5.x . Article is in Japanese but you can try to read the google translation
Google translate bar from chrome shows you a better rendering of the page .
Video guide is showing, how to install Firebird Server on a windows platform.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLg0TuhMUU0
I suggest to drop Atkins [for news readers] and start using gmane.org. I use it for several years in FireBase, and it had always been very stable.
We have also archive on mail-archive :
http://www.mail-archive.com/firebird-devel <at> lists.sourceforge.net
http://www.mail-archive.com/firebird-docs <at> lists.sourceforge.net
http://www.mail-archive.com/firebird-net-provider <at> lists.sourceforge.net
http://www.mail-archive.com/firebird-odbc-devel <at> lists.sourceforge.net
http://www.mail-archive.com/firebird-python <at> yahoogroups.com
http://www.mail-archive.com/firebird-support <at> yahoogroups.com
on gmane :
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.firebird.user
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.firebird.documentation
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.firebird.dotnetprovider
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.firebird.general
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.firebird.net-provider
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.firebird.php
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.firebird.python
Update : Firebird support archive and NNTP is back on gmane
I’d like to share vital statistics on the activity, growth, and demographics of this group with you.
Damyan Ivanov announced :
I have prepared packages from the current version in wheezy
(2.5.1.26351), built for squeeze.
ftp://ftp.modsoftsys.net/public/firebird2.5-backports/
If these improve the situation, then we at least know the bug is fixed
in that version and can start looking for the exact fix, which would
take about 10 iterations (and probably several weeks).
[ED if you want to rebuild them for 32bits you can use these instructions ]