Category: General news

Firebird 3.0 Revision 61473 was uploaded to Debian/experimental.

Now you can install on  Ubuntu 14.04 LTS  or latest release  15.04 (Vivid) from firebird3.0 ppa

In this Lazarus Tutorial

We describe the planning of a simple database, the setting up of the Firebird DBMS, the creation and populating of a database and then ways that you can access it by different applications to query the data. Written reports are an essential feature of most databases. We demonstrate the use of the LazReport component in the section entitled Creating and Printing a Report.

Here you can find the latest stable release Firebird 2.5.4 for LTS supported Ubuntu releases.
Follow the Firebird 2.5.x guide for usage and installation.

ps:Also package for latest Ubuntu:15.04 is uploaded

firebird2.5 (2.5.4.26856.ds4-1) package is uploaded to Debian Testing

Perl extension DBD::Firebird version 1.20 is released with a few small changes

* Fix loading DBD::Firebird::TypeInfo with strict/warnings [ilmari]
* Added installation hint for Fedora, RHEL, CentOS and derivates [robert-scheck]

Ubuntu 15.04 is released

Firebird version in Vivid is 2.5.3 with updates

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firebird2.5/2.5.3.26778.ds4-5

firebird2.5 (2.5.4.26856.ds4-1) package is uploaded with the following changes:

* move firebird.msg from firebird2.5-common to libfbclient2, under /usr/lib
Closes: #782842 — firebird2.5-common: firebird.msg is
architecture-specific
* Imported Upstream version 2.5.4.26856.ds4
+ update copyright information (added a file and a directory)
+ drop upstream/r58859-arm64.patch (released upstream)
+ drop out/fb_guard-lock-permissions.patch (applied upstream)
+ drop upstream/r60322-remote-crash.patch (released upstream)
+ drop upstream/r60322-remote-crash.patch (released upstream)
+ refresh five patches to apply cleanly
* link fbguard with dl, it uses at least dl_close

After almost 24 months of constant development the Debian project presented its new stable version 8 (code name “Jessie”), which will be supported for the next 5 years

Firebird version in Jessie is 2.5.3 with updates
https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/firebird2.5

A Firebird database package for the Laravel Framework

http://packalyst.com/packages/package/jacquestvanzuydam/laravel-firebird