Firebird News

Firebird 1.5.4 is released

February 8, 2007 Cantu One comment

The Firebird team is pleased to announce that v.1.5.4 of Firebird for Windows and Linux is now released and awaiting your pleasure. Kits should be available from many sites today and more over the weekend.

A number of additional retrospective fixes have been introduced for bugs that became apparent and were fixed in the Firebird 2 tree during the Firebird 2.0 beta cycle.

This is probably the final sub-release of Firebird 1.5.x. It adds no new functionality, although building the software for both Classic and SuperServer for HP-UX11 is now supported.

The Firebird Team

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Sequoia 2.10.5 released

February 8, 2007 mariuz Leave a comment

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

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Want to run Firebird on Windows Vista?

February 7, 2007 Cantu Leave a comment

Check out this blog post from Dmitry Kouzmenko about how to run FB on Vista and not loose performance.

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The Ideal Database for Your Business?

February 7, 2007 Cantu Leave a comment

This paper from CodeGear tries to convince users that InterBase 2007 is the best database for them. It even mentions “alternatives” like MySQL, PostgreSQL and …FIREBIRD 1.5!

Of course, like any marketing paper, it tries to show that IB is the best option 😉 But it is curious that they decided to compare IB 2007 with FB 1.5 (instead of 2.0). Also, it seems that most of their “complaints” about FB, like the lack of SMP support, etc. are features that are currently being merged from Vulcan into Firebird 3. The matter of Firebird not having an official support “entity” is shown as a “problem”, but I totally disagree with this, since there is a huge and very active community offering (very good) support for free in discussion lists, and some comercial companies too. I believe that currently Firebird support is even better than IB support from CodeGear.

Anyway, the simple fact that FB is mentioned probably will attract some attention to the project 😉

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FB wishlist in Indonesia

February 7, 2007 Cantu Leave a comment

There is a discussion going on in a Indonesian Delphi forum about Firebird wishlist. You can check it here.

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Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.0.0-beta

February 7, 2007 mariuz Leave a comment

quote from phpMyFAQ blog

Some months ago I ported our database abstraction layer to Oracle and Interbase/Firebird. I enabled both classes today for the upcoming beta release.

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Dabo 0.7.2 Released

February 7, 2007 Oleg Deribas Leave a comment

Dabo 0.7.2 was released at Jan 18, 2007.

Dabo is a 3-tier, cross-platform application development framework, written in Python atop the wxPython GUI toolkit. And while Dabo is designed to create database-centric apps, that is not a requirement. Lots of people are using Dabo for the GUI tools to create apps that have no need to connect to a database at all.

Currently, Dabo supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird and SQLite backends, but in the near future it will support all databases that have drivers that conform to the Python dbapi.

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