Category: Tools & Products releases
Announcements of new Firebird related products, or new releases.
Firebird .Net Provider Improved “weekly” builds
I’ve improved the http://netprovider.cincura.net/ . It’s now returning
version build from latest SVN sources (so it’s actually snapshot
builds now). Again could be unstable, not a good idea to put it to
production.
PS: It’s reading the build from my internal CI server, that is really
old and really not very powerful. Please try not to push it to the
limit.
—
Jiri {x2} Cincura (x2develop.com founder)
http://blog.cincura.net/ | http://www.ID3renamer.com
Ruby driver and RoR adapter Rubyfb v0.6.2 released
FBDataGuard 2.7: major update of Firebird moniotring and database protection tool
FBDataGuard was just updated to the version 2.7. Download it from your IBSurgeon Deploy Center account or get trial version from the product page.
Please schedule upgrade of your production system (please do upgrade carefully and plan all your actions).
Changes in version 2.7 include support for modern browsers in FBDataGuard web-console, fixed bugs and improved performance.
FBDataGuard is intended to be automatic maintainer and administrator assistant for important Firebird databases, especially at remote locations and being bundled with Firebird-based software.
FBDataGuard is designed to provide stability and confidence in business-critical Firebird databases:
- prevent outages and corruptions,
- reduce downtime and performance problems,
- monitor database health and automate maintenance,
- provide alerts and recommendations.
Also it can be used for advanced database recovery of protected database in case of heavy corruption (e.g., caused by hardware failure).
FDB Python driver release 0.7.1 is out
Flamerobin 0.9.3 svn revision 2212 is now uploaded to #debian sid
The flamerobin version 0.9.3 – revision 2212 is now in published in debian sid
Flamerobin New snapshot 0.9.3.2210.* builds
New snapshot builds (SVN revision 2210) for Windows 32 and 64 bits are
available on SF.net.
Feedback on field and text delimiter settings for save grid data as CSV
file command would be especially welcome.
Thanks
—
Michael Hieke
DBInfo – new IBSurgeon product
IBSurgeon DBInfo is designed to visualize internal structure’s statistics, so administrators or developers can view how much data, index, blob or other kind of information your Firebird or InterBase database stores.
DBInfo is a free tool, download it now: http://ib-aid.com/products/firebird_interbase/monitoring/dbinfo

More information at IBSurgeon official site.
FBClone version 2.1.4 is released (bugfix release)
FBClone v2.1.4 is released .This is a “bugfix release” (field “XxX” not found when used against case sensitive databases.)
FBClone can clone a Firebird database in one shot (instead of backup/restore cycle) and pump data from one database to another with the same structure, it handles metadata / data charset conversion and may be useful to ease database owner change process or to migrate a database between two different firebird versions (eg. 2.1 -> 1.5)
Firebird 2.5.2 svn snapshot 53775 landed in Debian testing
firebird2.5 (2.5.2~svn+53775.ds4-1) package is now in debian testing
You can check the list of bugs fixed for firebird 2.5.2 (not yet released) in the tracker
Here is the list of debian changes and fixes
* Snapshot from upstream’s 2.5 branch, revision 53775
* control: note -doc doesn’t contain release notes (LP#908963)
* control: change transitional 2.5-dev package to oldlibs/extra
* control: -common package is arch:all
the last arch-specific bit, ibutil was moved to -server-common
* -classic.init: provide a status option
* control: 2.5-dev, -classic-common: depend on the same (source) version of
-common-doc

