Testing needed for Firebird 2.0.4 and Firebird 2.1.0 packages for debian
As you may have noticed, debian experimental got firebird2.0 (2.0.4) and
firebird2.1 (2.1.0).
I would really appreciate if you give these some testing. Read more
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Loading...Using Lazarus Free Pascal Ide with Firebird in Ubuntu Hardy
Lazarus Ide is now included in Ubuntu Hardy/Intrepid and can be easily be installed and then can work with Firebird
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Another Interbase Security Issue found first in Firebird
The other day another security issue (this sort of thing happens to the best of them) in Interbase that was fixed in January in Firebird already.
More rants on this page http://pooteeweet.org/blog/0/1118
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Firebird Master Classes in Brazil
Dmitry Yemanov (FB development team) and Dmitri Kouzmenko will be doing two “Master Classes” in 18/July (eve of Firebird Developers Day conference), in Piracicaba-SP. Complete information is available here. Very few vacants available, subscribe now!
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...International FB conference (call for papers)
The next International Firebird Conference will take place in Bergamo (Italy), from 25 to 27/September. If you want to speak at the conference, the Call for Papers is already running, and you have until 15/June to send at last the drafts of your talks proposals.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Firebird 2.0.4 is now in Mandriva
Here is th url , also there are drivers for php and flamerobin package is included there
http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/devel/cooker/SRPMS/contrib/release/
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Firebird ports for Intanium and hppa to be released soon
If you watch the debian building logs for different architectures then there are a few ones left to be done , Itanium , Hppa and Alpha (dead one)
http://buildd.debian.org/build.cgi?pkg=firebird2.0
and seem that this will be solved very soon
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...remember to upgrade to firebird 2.0.4 or firebird2.1
Stack-based buffer overflow in Firebird before 2.0.4, and 2.1.x before 2.1.0 RC1, might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long username.
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0467 Read more
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