Category: General news

Maximiliano Robaina wrote:

After a long time, I like to announce a new django-firebird release.
This version is compatible with django 1.8.x LTS.

Also there are a new version to django-firebird 1.7.1 with a minor bug fix (backported from 1.8 version)

v1.8.0
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+ First version with django 1.8.x support
+ Implement new UUIDField #54
+ Implement new DurationField #55
+ DatabaseOperations: repleace convert_values by get_db_converters #56
+ DatabaseIntrospection: get_relations implementation change in 1.8 #57
+ Introspection of boolean field type fail #58
+ Create new object with a time field fails if microseconds greater than 6 digit #60
+ django-firebird not working with non-default firebird port #62
+ Client db shell doesn’t work on non-default firebird port #63

Jiří Činčura wrote on Firebird-devel : There’s something I’ve been working on for a few evenings and weekends.
As you might know, from Firebird 3 there’s and interface to write a
plugin that allows to execute any code as stored procedure, function or
trigger.

So why not to have these in .NET, right? I have a working plugin right
now. Currently only stored procedures are supported. No blobs at the
moment as well

Firebird 3.0 Package is uploaded into Firebird 3.0 ppa.

There are packages for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty) and Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial).

UIB For Firebird 3.0 is out

https://github.com/hgourvest/uib

It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing this week of Aage Johansen, in Oslo, Norway. A Firebird stalwart since its very first days in 1999, Aage was a founding member of the Firebird Foundation and has constantly maintained his membership and his faith in what the Firebird team could achieve.
Over the years he has contributed generously, but quietly, to the Foundation, to the support lists, to reviews of documentation and to testing international character set issues. Aage’s colleague at his workplace, Kreftregisteret Norway, Svein Erling Tysvaer, commented, “He will be greatly missed, both as a friend and as an employee – he was the only one with the combination of medical, programming and historical skills, and some of the work he’s done, no-one else can do.”
Those of us in the Firebird Project who have been privileged to work with Aage feel the same.
Aage’s funeral service will take place next Tuesday, 31 May, at Manglerud Kirche, Oslo, at 11 a.m. Rest in peace, Aage Johansen.

The Firebird Conference will take place on the 7th and 8th of October 2016, Prague, Czech Republic. More details.