Damaged 2.1 RC2 kits on SourceForge replaced
Several 2.1 RC2 kits were damaged on upload to SourceForge. All affected
ones were replaced, but before they’ll get updated on all mirrors,
please make sure that you use the osdn primary server.
Here are direct links to new fixed kits: Read more
Firebird remote BOF POC
Firebird Remove Buffer Overflow Proof of concept was posted on BugTraq
The bug is the one fixed in the next stable releases and is not present in firebird 2.1 rc1& rc2 here is the description:
Integer overflow in Firebird SQL 1.0.3 and earlier, 1.5.x before 1.5.6, 2.0.x before 2.0.4, and 2.1.x before 2.1.0 RC1 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code
Firebird 2.1 Release Candidate 2 Ready
The Firebird Project team is happy to announce that download kits for the second (and hopefully, last) V.2.1 release candidate are now available for Windows, Linux and MacOSX Intel 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. You are invited to test it with as much rigour and vigor as you like and report your experiences (good or bad) back to the firebird-devel or the firebird-test list.
As always, please be patient if the files you want haven’t made it out to the mirrors at your first attempt.
Interop Moscow 2008
On April 23-24, 2008 Interop Moscow will take place in the very heart of Moscow, FORUM Hall exhibition centre. The Congress and Exhibition will bring together more than 5000 IT experts and business managers from Russian and CIS seeking for an efficacious use of information technologies.
Dmitry Yemanov will be speaking at the conference with the talk “Firebird: The Universal Open-Source Database“.
SQLObject 0.9.4 released
I'm pleased to announce the 0.9.4 release of SQLObject.
FirebirdClient 2.5.0 Alpha 2 released
The new version of FirebirdClient (ADO.NET Data Provider) is available for download: http://firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=netprovider .
It’s mainly a bugfix release. Work on Entity Framework support still continues.
Brazilian’s Firebird Developers Day – 17/July
The 5th edition of the Firebird Developers Day (FDD) will take place in Piracicaba-SP, Brazil, at 17/July. More details will be published in the upcoming weeks.
Collation charts
The goal of this project is to provide information about how various pieces of software (e.g. operating systems, DBMS and others) sort textual data, in the form of easy-to-read charts.
Check Firebird collation charts.
New Evans Data Survey
A new survey from Evans Data, about software development and IDEs, mention Firebird as one of the choices for the question “Which of the following databases are you currently using?“. Let’s make some noise! 😉
PS: People who participates in the survey can win US$ 500.

