Mind the Bird!
Time to start the global community activation campaign about Firebird 2.5 release! Help to spread the word, join MindTheBird now, and let’s put Firebird under the IT media spotlights!
Time to start the global community activation campaign about Firebird 2.5 release! Help to spread the word, join MindTheBird now, and let’s put Firebird under the IT media spotlights!
I did some minor cleanup/update to the Get to know Firebird in 2 minutes paper. English (html and pdf) and pt-br versions are up to date (version 1.3). Some new info was inserted, dead/broken links removed/fixed.
Updates for the other languages are welcome. If you wanna help, download the html of your native language (or create new one based in the English version), update it using a html editor that not mess with the html code and layout (or just use notepad if you are hardcore developer), and send it back to me.
Poll is in the sidebar of FirebirdNews main page. You can mark up to 3 options 😉
Adriano posted in his blog about new Window functions introduced in Firebird 3.
[…]Now, new window-only functions has been introduced. I’ll separate them in two groups: ranking and navigational. Both set of functions can be used with/without partition/ordering, but them does not make much sense without ordering.[…]
Read the full post here.
You can check the updated Roadmap here. In resume: There will at last one more RC for FB 2.5. FB 3 unstable builds can already be downloaded from special link, and first Alpha versions are expected in Q2 2010.
The site is now again allowing logins using OpenIDs (Google, Yahoo, etc) accounts. Please report any problem.
I’m pleased to announce new – 2.5.2 – version of ADO.NET provider for Firebird. This release is mainly focused on bugfixing, but also some small internal improvements has been made. We’re still working on new features added to new Firebird server versions and in ADO.NET world. Complete list of changes can be found in tracker
http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/sr/jira.issueviews:searchrequest-printable/temp/SearchRequest.html?pid=10003&fixfor=10370&status=5&status=6&sorter/field=issuekey&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=1000 .
Thanks to all people contributed to this release.
Direct links:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-net-provider/2.5.2/NETProvider-2.5.2.msi/download
https://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-net-provider/2.5.2/NETProvider-2.5.2.zip/download
https://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-net-provider/2.5.2/NETProvider-2.5.2-CF.7z/download
https://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-net-provider/2.5.2/NETProvider-2.5.2-MONO_LINUX.7z/download
https://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-net-provider/2.5.2/NETProvider-2.5.2-NET20.7z/download
https://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-net-provider/2.5.2/NETProvider-2.5.2-src.7z/download
Upscene Productions extends its product line with a new product:
Firebird Trace Manager
Firebird Trace Manager exposes the Trace and Audit Services, a new feature in the forthcoming Firebird 2.5 release for monitoring database operations continuously, in a very user-friendly way.
The product is available in the following editions:
– Lite Edition (FREELY available)
– Standard Edition
– Enterprise Edition
More information is available in our press release:
http://www.upscene.com/displaynews.php?item=20100216
and in the Firebird Trace Manager section on our website:
http://www.upscene.com/go/?go=fbtm
Thomas Steinmaurer made available for public download the PDF of his article about Firebird 2.5, published previously in the Entwickler Magazin.