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.
Kfb, a free multiple function GUI Database Administration Tool, has been updated to work on FirebirdSS-2.1Beta2. Visit http://kfbsite.googlepages.com
for more information on steps of up-grading and some more on HOW TO OBTAIN A CROSS-SECTION OF A LIVE ACTIVE DATABASE ON ITS TIME AXIS.
Check Stefan pictures of Firebird Conference (Germany).
Here are some pictures from the first day of the Firebird International Conference in Hamburg – Germany.
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.
- Development & Coordination (Dmitry Yemanov)
- Code Scrutineering (Claudio Valderrama)
- International Language Support, DSQL & Code Scrutineering (Adriano dos Santos Fernandes)
- Security/Code Devel. (Alex Peshkoff)
- QA & Testing (Pavel Cisar)
- QA Testing (Philippe Makowski)
- Core Development (Vlad Horsun)
- .NET Provider (Carlos Guzmán Álvarez)
- Foundation Administration (Helen Borrie)
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:
Visit the LiquiBase site for more information and for downloads:
http://www.liquibase.org
Nathan
