The Release Candidate of Firebird 1.5.5 is now available for testing. This sub-release introduces a few bug and security fixes backported from the Firebird 2.0.x branches. These test builds are available for Windows and Linux 32-bit platforms. You can download it here.
You can check a lot of pictures from the recent Russian Firebird Conference here.
Check the comments and you will find a very known “bird” 🙂
Maybe a few people know (or use it), but anyone can actually influence in what new features should appear in the next FB version, or what bug should get priority in fixing, etc. This can be done in the Firebird Tracker. The “Find Issues” menu item can be easily used to find out what new features, improvements or bugs are already registered. Of course, you can register new tickets if your issue isn’t listed yet. To increase the priority, you need to be logged-in and VOTE for it.
Hacker finds 492,000 unprotected Oracle, SQL database servers
You can protect your Firebird server by blocking (Firewall) internet access to port 3050 in your database server. Changing the Firebird port to other than the default one may also help to difficult attacks.
A new version of FireRuby (Firebird’s Ruby driver) was relased yesterday. Check more information here.
From Firebird Foundation blog:
| Wed 7 Nov 2007 01:30:00 GMT | Upcoming New Platinum Sponsor | Secretary |
| Great to have news from Great Lakes Data Systems, Inc., that they intend to become a Platinum sponsor, starting as soon as they can get a cheque to us from the USA. Thanks greatly to the team at GLDS. | ||
IBProvider team is pleased to announce IBProvider v3 Release Candidate 2, which already become a part of IBProvider Professional Edition. We have fixed all known bugs and implemented new unique features.
Translated from Erick Sasse blog:
This week I was in BorCon-BR and watched the Steve Shaugnessy’s talk , one of the person responsible for the database area in Delphi. He told that there will be a Borland/CodeGear’s “official” dbExpress driver for Firebird. The customers demand has now proven to justify the investment in the development of the driver. He didn’t give any details, and don’t know if the driver will be developed entirely by CodeGear or by someone from Firebird community with their help, but made it clear that it will be done. Finally, not?
New Roadmap is under discussion in the Admin group, but based on what Dmitry Yemanov said in the Hamburg conference, next version of FB 2.1 shall be a Release Candidate, and if nothing wrong is found, the other one will be the final release (hopefully out still in this year).
For those dreaming with FB 3.0, probably there will be an intermediate release (2.5?) released before it.
