Category: General news

Vlad updated Firebird Sphinx patch for version 2.2.x.
Soon it will be merged upstream in the Sphinx Github tree.

Jason announced the newest release of IB Objects to all download areas.
For registered users, please go to http://community.ibobjects.com and update your annual subscription if necessary. Thanks to all who continue to support IB Objects!

You can try Evaluation Kit on Lazarus/Delphi IDE
http://www.ibobjects.com/ibodownload.html

Here is an excerpt from the release notes about what has been done since the last release.

www.ibobjects.com/ReleaseNotes.htm

New Firebird driver release fixes : (PYFB-58) Severe performance loss and minor memory leak.

The Firebird Docs team is calling for people who are fluent in both English and Firebird’s SQL to assist with reviewing the English text of the Firebird 2.5 Language Reference manual. Of 10 chapters and 8 Appendices, 4.5 chapters are still untouched by reviewers.  It would be good to have the reviewing done to coordinate with the forthcoming 2.5.5 release but correctness takes priority.

Still to do are:  half of the DDL chapter, DML, PSQL, Functions and Variables, Transactions.

If you feel able to help with the review, please subscribe to the [firebird-docs] list here and make yourself and your preferred topics known.

In this 3.0.1 release

Dumitru Condrea contributed UI improvements to FirebirdWebAdmin : replaced the png maximize/minimize icons with glyphicons

Firebird Converter 1.0.3 is now released with Support for Global temporary tables (GTT)

https://github.com/tomneko/fbconverter/releases/tag/R_1_0_3

This is release where is fixed the bug related to CONSTRAINT

Are you looking forward to try Firebird 3.0 Release Candidate, and can’t wait for the official release? Download Firebird 3 Unofficial Installer and get Firebird 3.0 RC1 now.
http://firebird3.com/en/download-firebird-3/
If you want to install Firebird 3 as the second instance (and keep existing installation of Firebird 2.5 intact), you can specify another port and instance name for Firebird 3, and use both instances simultenaously.
Watch this video to and follow its steps to install Firebird 3 together with your Firebird 2.x: