Firebird related news
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
Mark Rotteveel wrote :
Jaybird 2.2 currently supports Java 5 and up. When I planned Jaybird 2.3
(now 3.0), I was planning to continue to support Java 6 with Jaybird
3.0, and drop support with Jaybird 3.1. However I have decided to change
that decision.
Java 5 has been end of public updates since October 2009 and Java 6 has
been end of public updates since February 2013. Java 7 itself is end of
public updates since this month (April 2015). See the Oracle Java
End-Of-Life policy at:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html.
Jaybird 3 is taking longer than I anticipated; I hope to have a beta
ready in Q3 2015, but this really depends on available time.
With this in mind, I have made the decision to make the following changes:
Starting with Jaybird 2.2.8, Jaybird 2.2 will no longer support Java 5,
and I will only release builds for Java 7 and Java 8 (I will maintain
Java 6 compatibility for the 2.2 branch, so people can compile their own
version if they really need it).
Jaybird 3.0 will *not* support Java 6. For the time being I plan to
support Java 7 and 8 (and probably also Java 9). Depending on the final
release date of Jaybird 3.0, Java 7 support might still be dropped.
