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Firebird related news
www.firebirdsql.org and tracker down for a few days
the web server [ firebirdsql.org] and the tracker are down. Both machines are in a
location that has no electricity supply at the moment. As it is a
holiday weekend in Canada, we could be without them for a couple more days.
best regards
Pavel Cisar
IBPhoenix
[ED so for the moment use alternate sites like http://ibphoenix.com/ or sf.net for downloads]
Multiple Buffer Overflow problem
If you read the post about the Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities, I think you would be interested in this post from Svein Erling Tysvaer, in Firebird Support list:
Looking at http://risesecurity.org/blog/entry/3/ indicates that some of the issues affects Firebird, but that they’ve been corrected in the latest release:
We contacted both Borland/CodeGear and Firebird developers about these vulnerabilities. After failed attempts to find an email address to report security issues in their products, we tried their bug tracking systems. Borland/CodeGear asked us to send information to their support email address, but we didn’t get any further responses. Firebird developers didn’t answer to our reports either, but they corrected these vulnerabilities in the latest version of Firebird.
More details can be found at http://risesecurity.org/advisory/RISE-2007003/
Seems like Firebird still prioritise fixing errors to a greater extent han InterBase.
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FIBL 0.7.2 released
FIB for Lazarus (FIBL) is improved version of FreeIBComponents for FreePascal/FCL. The aim of this project is to provide high quality components library to access Firebird server for Lazarus IDE.
Here you can download the new version
Solving issues
Posted by Dimitrios Ioannidis in FB-General list:
I would like to show you how hard the Core Developers are working (as if you don’t know that already … ).
A little graph for you ….
http://tinyurl.com/yt5pgl
Firebird Relational Database Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Firebird Relational Database Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
http://risesecurity.org/advisory/RISE-2007003/
Published: October 3, 2007
Flash demo: IB LogManager and hot-standby database environment in 17 minutes
The following flash demo shows you how easy it is to integrate an audit trail in your Firebird database and how fast you can build up a hot-standby database environment with the IB LogManager product family. It’s all done in 17 minutes.
Check it out here:
http://www.iblogmanager.com/download/demos/iblm/iblm_hotstandby.htm
Silver sponsorship
From the Firebird Foundation blog:
Today we received a nice cheque from David Culbertson, of CounterWorks Inc., Colorado, U.S.A., to renew the company’s silver sponsorship for a year. Thank you, CounterWorks!
Let me remind that anyone can contribute with the Foundation (with any value) and help the project to move faster and strongly.
Firebird Maestro 7.9 released
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SQL Maestro Group is happy to announce the release of Firebird Maestro 7.9, a powerful Windows GUI solution for Firebird administration and database development. |
New version features:
- Starting with this version you can reorder columns for existing tables. It is also possible to reorder parameters for a stored procedure.
- Now it is possible to cancel a long running query execution (Firebird 2.1) and data fetching (all Firebird versions).
- The SQL Formatter for DML statements (SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE) is fulfilled.
- The UTF8 character set is added to the Create Database Wizard.
- BLOB Viewer: it is now possible to save all BLOBs from a table to a given directory.
- Data Import Wizard: the speed of loading of Excel files has been significantly increased.
There are also some other new features. Full press-release is available here:
http://www.sqlmaestro.com/news/company/4671/
Last chance: Early bird discount ends today Sep 20!
Last chance: Early bird discount ends today Sep 20!
Time is running out to save money through early bird registration to attend 5th International Firebird Database Conference 2007 in Hamburg, Germany. Attendees who are members of the Firebird Foundation can subscribe using the early bird discount prices until oct 10.
Conference Program and Registration Form: http://www.firebird-conference.com/fbconf2007.zip
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