Category: Tools & Products releases
Announcements of new Firebird related products, or new releases.
Firebird 2.1.3 uploaded to #debian #unstable #sid
Firebird 2.1.3 package is uploaded to Debian Unstable (Sid) and here is the list of package changes
* fix repack.sh invocation in watch file
* make executable
* New upstream release
+ drop patches released upstream
– cvs_CVE-2009-2620_DOS.patch was deleted (fixed upstream in 2.1.3)
– cvs_autogen.sh-autoreconf.patch
* refresh all patches to apply cleanly
* no longer regster QuickStart.pdf with doc-base; it was dropped upstream
* -classic.postinst: remove stray stop rc.d symlinks
What is interesting is to see the import diff vs the 2.1.2 package
FDD MegaPack DVD
Sorry, only for portuguese speakers.
Acaba de ser lançado o FDD MegaPack DVD, contendo palestras da segunda, quarta, quinta e sexta edições do Firebird Developers Day. Pedidos on-line através do site da FireBase.
New Release: CakePHP 1.2.5
The CakePHP development team is happy to announce CakePHP 1.2.5.
1.2.5 is a bug fix release of the latest stable branch. Check the
changelog for all the changes.
News from Firebird Ruby / Ror driver – Firebird Extension 0.6.1 released
Firebird Extension Library for Ruby added new releses 0.6.1 and there are many changes and bug fixes
Firebird in openSUSE Factory – Mentioned in OpenSUSE Weekly News
Firebird is mentioned in OpenSUSE Weekly News
“I want to inform our users that thanks to the efforts of Philippe Makowski, we’ve got Firebird in openSUSE now. He took over the package we had in Build Service, rewrote spec file from scratch, fixed quite some errors and adjusted package in many ways. And as the result Firebird package was finally accepted yesterday (1st of September) into openSUSE Factory.
E/R Studio introduces official support to Firebird
The new version (8.5 beta) of the Data Modeling tool “E/R Studio” (from Embarcadero) introduces official support for Firebird. Based on past information, you can expect more and more Embarcadero tools officially supporting Firebird in the near future.
Opendbx 1.4.3 with Firebird changes
You can read the full release log on Freshmeat
The Win32 platform code also received major improvements and is now able to build working Firebird and MySQL backends
Xp Php Framework adds Firebird support
The XP team is proud to announce the release of 5.7.4. This release features various improvements to the rdbms API:
Delphi 2010 is released (with FB support)
This link will show a list of QC requests that were covered by the Delphi Development Team in version 2010. Interesting enough, from the 82 items listed, 8 are requests for official Firebird support.
Better late than never 😉