Category: General news

Jiří Činčura announced the release of Entity Framework Core 10 provider for Firebird.

Shout out to @niekschoemaker who did most of the work.

Overview of all the changes can be found in here and you can get the bits from NuGet FirebirdSql.EntityFrameworkCore.Firebird.

A new version 2.0.5.200 is available.

Visit our homepage and download the demo version.

https://fbm.gksoft.ch

A new version 2.0.4.199 is available.

Visit our homepage and download the demo version.

https://fbm.gksoft.ch

A new TurboBird fork is released with Firebird5 features

New and Improved Features

Dynamic Firebird Data Type Handling
– All Firebird data types are now loaded dynamically at runtime, making TurboBird largely version-independent.

Package Support
– You can now create and edit Firebird packages directly within TurboBird.

UDR Support (User Defined Routines)
– TurboBird can now create, edit, and execute user-defined routines (UDRs), including parameters and results.

Unified Routine Runner
A single routine runner now supports:

– UDFs
– UDRs
– Stored Procedures
– Functions

New releases are here
https://github.com/mdadali/TurboBird/releases

Also you can find the changelog in the tagged release
https://github.com/mdadali/TurboBird/releases/tag/TurboBird_v1.2.1.1262

MWA Software is pleased to announce the release of version 2.7.8 of IBX for Lazarus. This release is a bug fix release fixing several minor bugs – see changelog for details. The resolved issues apply to the design time editors. All users are recommended to upgrade to this version.

In this release:

1. Fixed corruption in idmodifysqleditor.lfm. Using this editor should no longer
   result in an access violation.
2. Design Time SQL Editors: Table Names are now shown in alphabetical order.
3. IBSQL Editor: changing the “Use System Tables” checkbox should now refresh table list.
4. Design Time Editors: Replaced embedded SQL Literals with constants
5. Allow for alternative all upper case SQL literals or first letter UC only.
   Selected by defining the symbol GENERATE_SQL_ALL_UPPERCASE in design/IBSQLEditFrame.pas
   or in the Custom Options for dclibx.

ADO.NET Data provider FirebirdClient 10.3.4.0 is released with a few fixes

Mark Rotteveel released a new version of jaybird-embedded-win32-x86-64:5.0.3.0-alpha-1, providing the Firebird 5.0.3 win32-x86-64 binaries (that is: 64-bit Windows).

For more details, see
https://github.com/mrotteveel/jaybird-embedded-win32-x86-64

Ruby Firebird Extension Library Update to 0.10.0 with following changes :

• Support for Ruby 3.2 #79
• Clear input buffer memory after allocating it to remove garbage #81
• Adapted to Ruby3.4 by using TypedData #85
• Fixed Firebird 5 compatibility (SQL_INT128)
• Improve sql_decimal_to_bigdecimal.
• Fixed build on MacOS.

PHP Firebird driver 6.1.1-RC.2 is released . Please test thoroughly and report any issues.

Changes since v6.1.1-RC.1 :

• New functions ibase_get_client_major_version(), ibase_get_client_minor_version()
• Addressed issues: #22, #78, #88, #91, #92, #95, #96

Possible breaking changes:

• ibase_close() now closes connection instantly instead of decreasing refcount (see more #22)
• fetching TIME fields with IBASE_UNIXTIME flag now returns time as string instead of negative values