Author: Cantu

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“Official” CodeGear/Borland dbExpress driver for Firebird

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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?

Firebird – future versions

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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.

News from FF Blog

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Mon 29 Oct 2007 02:30:00 GMT Broadview Resumes Gold Sponsorship Secretary
Last week at the Firebird Conference, Sean Leyne of Broadview Software, Toronto, Canada, presented a cheque for two further years of Gold sponsorship. Thanks, Sean, your cheque reached us today.
Mon 29 Oct 2007 11:10:00 GMT A New Silver Sponsor Secretary
M-Files (Motive Systems, Finland) has just become our latest Silver sponsor. Thank you, Antti Nivala.
Mon 22 Oct 2007 10:10:00 GMT Firebird Conference Mad Auction Stefan Heymann
The Mad Auction at this year’s Firebird Conference in Hamburg raised more than 3,750 Euros to augment the coffers for Firebird development. Thanks to those who dug deeply into their pockets and paid ridiculously inflated prices for their small treasures! Thanks also to the two companies that donated a total of 400 Euros in cash and didn’t take home any prizes.

Where Firebird Foundation Funds go?

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From the FF blog:

We are currently funding 9 regular grant allocations. Where there are links, you can go and read the developer’s latest report.

  1. Development & Coordination (Dmitry Yemanov)
  2. Code Scrutineering (Claudio Valderrama)
  3. International Language Support, DSQL & Code Scrutineering (Adriano dos Santos Fernandes)
  4. Security/Code Devel. (Alex Peshkoff)
  5. QA & Testing (Pavel Cisar)
  6. QA Testing (Philippe Makowski)
  7. Core Development (Vlad Horsun)
  8. .NET Provider (Carlos Guzmán Álvarez)
  9. Foundation Administration (Helen Borrie)

LiquiBase Firebird support

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LiquiBase is a java based LGPL tool for managing database changes.  If you have used Ruby on Rail’s Active Migration it is similar in concept, although it tracks applied changes differently.

The most recent version of LiquiBase (1.3.2) has added Firebird support.
Major functionality includes:

  • 34 Refactorings
  • Extensibility to create custom refactorings
  • update database to current version
  • rollback last X changes to database
  • rollback database changes to particular date/time
  • rollback database to “tag”
  • Stand-alone IDE and Eclipse plug-in
  • “Contexts” for including/excluding change sets to execute
  • Database diff report
  • Database diff changelog generation
  • Ability to create changelog to generate an existing database
  • Database change documentation generation
  • Ability to save SQL to be applied for approval by a DBA
  • DBMS Check, user check, and SQL check preconditions
  • Can split change log into multiple files for easier management
  • Can be run via command line, Ant, Maven, Servlet container, or Spring
  • Support for 11 database systems

Visit the LiquiBase site for more information and for downloads:
http://www.liquibase.org

Nathan

Multiple Buffer Overflow problem

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If you read the post about the Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities, I think you would be interested in this post from Svein Erling Tysvaer, in Firebird Support list:

Looking at http://risesecurity.org/blog/entry/3/ indicates that some of the issues affects Firebird, but that they’ve been corrected in the latest release:

We contacted both Borland/CodeGear and Firebird developers about these vulnerabilities. After failed attempts to find an email address to report security issues in their products, we tried their bug tracking systems. Borland/CodeGear asked us to send information to their support email address, but we didn’t get any further responses. Firebird developers didn’t answer to our reports either, but they corrected these vulnerabilities in the latest version of Firebird.

More details can be found at http://risesecurity.org/advisory/RISE-2007003/

Seems like Firebird still prioritise fixing errors to a greater extent han InterBase.

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