Category: General news

A new open source web-based Firebird Admin Tool based on Python 3 and fdb – firewad

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Firebird 3.0 beta 2 is tagged and it will be released very soon

https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/core/tree/T3_0_0_Beta2

You can check the release notes for Beta 2 an try a Firebird 3.0 snapshot

Python Firebird driver fdb version 1.4.9 released

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb

With a few fixes:

• PYFB-51 : <procedure>.get_sql_for(‘<re>create’) returns invalid output parameters
• PYFB-52 : isc_info* types which are _DATABASE_INFO_CODES_WITH_COUNT_RESULTS raises TypeError: ‘float’ object cannot be interpreted as an integer

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Contributed R&D from Elekt Labs – Improved Firebird engine RLE for record compression

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This is a fork of the Firebird FDB module It has been modified to bundle a copy of the fb embedded server libraries so it can be used stanalone without a
separate installation of firebird database.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.0.0 Alpha 2. This is the second pre-release of the new PHP 7 major series. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs and incompatibilities in the bug tracking system.

A few updates in the Firebird Laravel 5 package :

Fix compileUnique and compileIndex grammar #6
Added option to change charset #5
Corrected connection parameters in the docs #4

New release for node-firebird fixes minor issue #70 :

Fix date parameter overflow :The used formula can result in negative time value (e.g.1938-12-29T17:00:00.000Z gives negative time) . In this case we need toadjust both date and time.

LINBIT, the leading provider of Linux based storage replication and disaster recovery, has announced the general availability release of its DRBD9 software. Developed to provide end-users, OEMs and ISVs a powerful tool to build redundant, highly scalable and flexible storage architectures, LINBIT’s new DRBD9 is the first replication design capable of connecting 30 nodes in real time to ensure data availability from multiple locations – even when disaster strikes.

New release for node-firebird fixes minor issue #69 :

Don’t try to read from an empty buffer

https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-firebird