The Firebird Development Team released Firebird 2.1.2 this week. This sub-release focus on stability. There are no big changes, they’re all in store for Firebird 2.5, but it is important nonetheless. The list of bugs fixed is impressive.
Firebird V2.1.2 Classic for MacOSX (PowerPC) is available for download.
Firebird V2.0.5 Classic for Solaris 10 (Sparc) is available for download. Thanks to Tsutomu Hayashi
on Paul Beach’s blog
Part of one of the things that I wanted to check was what malloc was doing. However by default any “error” messages get sent to standard out, however you can set the environment variable MallocLogFile to capture messages to a specified file.
Here are the install notes for ubuntu intrepid, jaunty or hardy
Did you ever think about how cool would be to have fully featured SQL database, without installation (just xcopy) and with Entity Framework support?
I was wondering whether the Entity Framework support I’m creating in FirebirdClient will work with Embedded version. Taking into account that the communication layers are under the EF support, there should be no problem. But you’ll never be sure until you try it. 😉 And it works.
I used http://twitterfeed.com/ so the news feed from firebirdnews.org
now is going to these two users/groups that you can now follow
http://twitter.com/firebirdsql
http://identi.ca/group/firebird
hopefully we will have more results in the search area
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23firebird
ps: now we need to complete our moebius ring and follow the tweets on firebirdnews
Kits for Windows were all replaced today to include some components that were missing. The new kits have the infix “-1” or “_1” after the build number, e.g. “Firebird-2.5.0.23247_1_Win32_Beta1.exe”.
Source, Windows (setup and zip), Linux (Slackware/gtk2) and MacOS X
binary packages are available for download. Win64 port and packages
for various Linux distributions (and maybe FreeBSD) should follow
shortly. This is mostly a bug fix release.
New features:
– Support for trusted authentication
– Databases can now be recreated from existing registration info
– Transaction isolation level can now be selected in SQL editor
– Win64 port
– Allowed deleting from system tables (ex. to stop queries via
MON$STATEMENTS)
As usual, it also has a lot of bugfixes and minor enhancements
