#ubuntu 12.04 LTS released with Firebird 2.5.1
Ubuntu LTS is released and includes the latest firebird stable release 2.5.1
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
Massive code changes : Getting rid of legacy code dsql_nod
Adriano Fernandes finished a massive code drop and rewrite : Getting rid of dsql_nod
Testing Codeigniter with Firebird
This was written on albringas.com :
I’ve been using Codeigniter as my development platform and framework of choice since last year. Being a ten year PHP developer, Codeigner was a refreshing way of coding web apps with PHP.
The first ones developments I did with Codeigniter were using MySQL, a very used database. But since I’ve also been using Firebird SQL Database from ten or more years ago, I decided to give a try to the Codeigniter-Firebird duo.
Read the rest of the adventure
MVC 4 / Firebird / EF 4.1 and Database First
Recently viewed a great presentation by of Steve Sanderson (blog.stevensanderson.com) on using SPA with MVC4. I tired with FB 2.5 and it works great. I’ve written my first blog This shows how to change the default behavior from Code First to Database First with these new technologies. I just wanted to contribute the list.
Thanks,
John R. Tomaselli
Firebird V2.0.7 has been released – likely to be the last for the 2.0-series
Firebird V2.0.7 has been released.
This sub-release 2.0.7, likely to be the last for the 2.0-series, does not add any new functionality to the database engine. It incorporates a number of bug fixes that did not make it into the v.2.0.6 sub-release in June 2010 or have been backported from subsequent 2.1.x and 2.5.x releases.
This release 2.0.x contains a large number of new features compared with 1.5.x, including derived tables, support for Execute Block, increased table sizes, new improved index code (the 252-byte index length limit is no longer applicable), expression indices, numerous optimiser improvements, enhanced security features, support for on-line incremental backups along with numerous other improvements and bug fixes.
Firebird Download stats for April
Here are the Sourceforge stats from the beginning of the poject until now (The number of downloads passed 11,3 Millions)
I excluded the year 2000 (there were no file releases on sf then)
Also the sf logo impressions look interesting (Maybe it should be put back on the front page)
Beta version of Jaybird 2.2 released with support for jdbc 4.1
The Firebird JDBC team is happy to announce the release of Jaybird 2.2.0
beta-1.
This release contains the following changes:
* Enhanced support for JDBC 4.0 (Java 6)
* Support for JDBC 4.1 (Java 7) – including try-with-resources support,
* Implementation of getGeneratedKeys(),
* Enhanced support for the services API,
* Support for 64 bit native libraries for Type 2 / Embedded,
* A number of bug fixes
Downloads are available from:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-jca-jdbc-driver/
The beta release is also available on maven(*):
<groupId>org.firebirdsql.jdbc</groupId>
<artifactId>jaybird-jdkXX</artifactId>
<version>2.2.0-beta-1</version>
The artifactId depends on your target Java version: jaybird-jdk15,
jaybird-jdk16 or jaybird-jdk17
Problems, bugs: please mail us on the Firebird-Java group or add a
ticket to the tracker on http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/JDBC
*) As this is the first release to Maven and we need manual
authorization from Sonatype, it can take several days before the
artifacts are really available on Maven
—
Mark Rotteveel
Jaybird 2.2 beta hopefully will be released this weekend with jdbc 3.0 and open/libre office support
News via Mark Rotteveel on twitter
Finishing touches to Jaybird 2.2 beta releasenotes, hopefully I will be able to finally release it this weekend
ps:
Jaybird 2.2 is the next Firebird jdbc driver release with many fixes which will include improved support of the JTA specification (XADataSource and XAResource interfaces). Additionally it already has improved support for OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice Base component, which deviates in some places from the JDBC 3.0 specification.
TurboBird for 0.9.1 is released with minor bugfix (64 bit build)
You can check the homepage for download links for all platforms also there is github page where you can contribute.
Also for changelog please scroll down to the bottom of the project’s home page:
Minor bug fix, producing 64 bit version, because 32 bit cann’t start in Linux Mint DE 64 bit.