Category: Tools & Products releases

The iBATIS.NET team announced March1, 2007 that the BETA releaseof DataAccess V1.9.1 and DataMapper V1.6.1 [beta status] are now available.

This release includes bug fixes and enhancements.

The iBATIS Data Mapper framework makes it easier to use a database with Java and .NET applications. iBATIS couples objects with stored procedures or SQL statements using a XML descriptor. Simplicity is the biggest advantage of the iBATIS DataMapper over object relational mapping tools.

To use the iBATIS Data Mapper, you rely on your own objects, XML, and SQL. There islittle to learn that you don’t already know. With the iBATIS Data Mapper, you have the full power of both SQL and stored procedures at your fingertips.

And, of course, iBATIS supports Firebird.

SQLObject is an object-relational mapper for python. Your database tables are described as classes, and rows are instances of those classes. SQLObject is meant to be easy to use and quick to get started with.

SQLObject supports a number of backends: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Firebird. It also has newly added support for Sybase, MSSQL and MaxDB (also known as SAPDB).

Return value from Firebird.createTable() was fixed in this release. For complete list of changes, please see the news.

The rails-integration 1.0 release has finally found its way out into the
repositories for the plugin to find, so I’d like to announce the first
release of rails-integration. Read more

Centric CRM Releases Open Source Centric CRM 4.1 With Expanded Database Support, New Workflow Best Practices Tool
Can be used with firebird:

Database Support
Centric CRM 4.1’s support for MySQL, IBM DB2 and Oracle 10g databases
is a significant step forward. It brings the total number of supported
databases to eleven (others include PostgreSQL, EnterpriseDB, Microsoft SQL
Server, IBM Cloudscape, Apache Derby, Interbase, Dafodil and Firebird)

A new stable release of the PEAR::MDB2 abstraction layer and of the Firebird/Interbase driver has been released.

PEAR::MDB2 is a merge of the PEAR::DB and Metabase PHP database abstraction layers.

Download and changelog:

MDB2 v.2.4.0
MDB2_Driver_ibase v.1.4.0

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Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:Cluster support was added, allowing the maximum database size to be extended up to several dozens or even hundreds of millions of documents. Strong relevancy calculation improvements were made to return higher quality search results. Many new features were added and performance improvements were made.

We are pleased to announce the availability of the phpBB3 Beta5 package. This fifth beta release marks the nearing end of the beta testing phase. The next release we anticipate will be Release Candidate 1.

The phpMyFAQ team is pleased to announce the second preview of our next generation release, phpMyFAQ 2.0.0-beta. This release added user and group based permissions for categories and records, OpenSearch support, a “submit translation” link and form, experimental support for Oracle databases, experimental support for Interbase/Firebird databases, an updated Arabic translation, and of course, we fixed tons of bugs. Do not use this version in production systems, but please test this version and report bugs!