Accordingly to its release lifetime policy, Firebird Project notifies that the Firebird v2.0 series has reached its end of life and thus will not be maintained anymore. The last official release in this series, Firebird 2.0.7, which has been announced this year, will be available from the “discontinued” section of the download area.
The Firebird roadmap is updated , we are waiting for Firebird 3.0.x Alpha 🙂
I have had a few internal network penetration tests now in which I came across the following finding identified by McAfee Vulnerability Manager (MVM): “Firebird SQL Default Credentials Detected”. So I figured I’d share with you what is required to interact with the database and provide you with ideas on what you can do after you connect
After some hot discussion in Firebird-Java, I want to propose to ditch
the NONE as default character set for newly created databases when no
database charset is specified.
Read the rest of the full thread on Firebird-Devel.
I have posted a test version of FlameRobin: http://mghie.users.sourceforge.net/flamerobin_win32_test.zip
(a ZIP file containing only the 32 bit executables for Windows in ANSI and Unicode version) that uses a thread to establish the database connection. That
means that the progress dialog can be moved and cancelled, and the progress bar is updated in indeterminate mode. To see it in action it’s
best to try to connect to a database on a server which is not available or which doesn’t exist, which so far blocks FlameRobin completely until
the connection call times out. It would be great if people could test this and write (to flamerobin-devel) whether anything
breaks for them (it didn’t for me, yet). I’m a little of unsure if I should clean this up and commit…
Thanks
—
Michael Hieke
Highlights for this release:
Target for next release: Documentation
Wt (pronounced as witty) is a C++ library for developing web applications and from now it supports Firebird for back-end
Here are the Fulvio Senore’s tips to work with embedded with no password on all platforms : Linux, MacOsx and Windows
After searching the internet for a decent walk through or tutorial, I came up with very little and so I decided to collate what have learned in this post with the hope that someone else can benefit from it.
Firstly you will need to obtain the datasources plugin from github and stick it in your application’s plugin folder (app/plugins) – make sure you get the master branch and not the 2.0 as it needs to be compatible with your version of CakePHP (1.3 ideally)
The next thing you need to do is edit the databases config file (app/config/database.php):
var$default=array('driver'=>'Datasources.DboFirebird',//references the datasources plugin'persistent'=> false,'host'=>'localhost',//the host name of your database'login'=>'sysdba','password'=>'masterkey','database'=>'C:\\path\\to\\database.gdb',//path to the database - note the double backslashes'prefix'=>'',//'encoding' => 'utf8',);
The two important things you should note of is the driver key-value pair which references the datasource plugin namespace, and secondly the double backslashes for the database file path.
All the models you create for your application should now access the corresponding tables through the FireBird SQL connection.
Firebird Project is pleased to announce Firebird 2.1.5 – the latest minor release in the Firebird 2.1 series.
Binary kits for Windows, Linux and MacOSX on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are immediately available for download. For MacOSX, LIPO (fat client) packages are also included. For the full list of changes please refer to the Release Notes.
