firebird-2.5.7.27050.0-1.el6 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 6
Firebird update to 2.5.7 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 6 with Security fix for CVE-2017-6369
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Firebird related news
Documentation crowdfunding: goal accomplished!
With the addition of the amount donated by the attendees of the 14th Firebird Developers Day, the crowdfunding campaign for the translation of the Firebird Developers Guide, from Russian to English, was finally accomplished! Thanks to everyone who donated!
firebird3.0 3.0.2.32703.ds4-9 package Migrated to Debian testing
FYI: The status of the firebird3.0 source package
in Debian’s testing distribution has changed.
Previous version: 3.0.2.32703.ds4-4
Current version: 3.0.2.32703.ds4-9
Here is the debian changelog
Report of the 14th Firebird Developers Day
The 14th Firebird Developers Day was held in the city of Piracicaba — SP — Brazil, in July, 29 2017, at Espaço Beira Rio. The conference is organized by FireBase, and had the presence of 300 attendees coming from dozens of cities and different states of Brazil.
The report (in English and Portuguese) with photos is now online.
Database .NET v22.5 released
Database .NET 22.5 is an innovative, powerful and intuitive multiple database management tool.
(Full support for Firebird 1.5~4.0+)
- Added Highlighting Groups of Cells
- Added Using \r\n as record separator by Exporting and Importing delimited text files
- Added automatically reset sequences after truncating/migrating the table (FB3)
- Added Enabling and Disabling indexes (FB)
- Added Rebuilding indexes (FB)
- Fixed missing declaration of DEFAULT in CREATE statement (FB)
- Fixed missing settings of IDENTITY in Table Designer (FB)
- dbMigration .NET has been updated to v6
- …and more
Getting closer to the “v1” with external procedures in Firebird in .NET ( FbNetExternalEngine)
Jiří Činčura is getting closer to Version 1 for Firebird External engine written in C# 7
Firebird inside Firebird in DotNet External Engine (FbNetExternalEngine)
You can load any .NET code in FbNetExternalEngine also as Proof Of Concept you can also
load Firebird Embedded inside that in server (Firebird inside Firebird in DotNet External Engine).
Changing the HASH function (Firebird CORE-4436)
There is an interesting discussion on firebird-devel about changing the hash function in Firebird (related to CORE-4436)
Firebird 3.0.3 for MacOSX Beta
A beta version of a 64bit Firebird 3.0.3 for MacOSX is now available as a download
http://www.ibphoenix.com/download/firebird/30
for those of you who might be interested in trying it.
Fighting Petya: our experience with retrieving data from the Firebird database files encrypted by ransomware crypto-viruses
As you know, recently several crypto viruses have attacked many companies – most well-known are Wannacry and Petya. Usually, as reported by many companies, it is necessary to pay a ransom, or, in the case of Petya, all encrypted files will be lost.
Read how we can defeat Petya:
https://ib-aid.com/en/articles/fighting-petya-our-experience-with-retrieving-data-from-the-firebird-database-files-encrypted-by-ransomware-crypto-viruses/