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Advanced Replication in Firebird: Dmitry Yemanov speaks about advanced replication features in Firebird 4.

Replication is a long-awaited feature that allows the creating of reliable high-performance database replicas without user-defined triggers and with full DDL support. This talk presents the replication subsystem architecture, possible replication modes, their impact on performance and available tuning options. We’ll demonstrate how to set up a simple standby configuration and use it in practice.

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The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 6.3.3, the third minor release of the LibreOffice 6.3 family, with many quality and compatibility improvements. LibreOffice 6.3.3 “fresh” is targeted at technology enthusiasts and power users, who are invited to update their current version.

LibreOffice’s individual users are helped by a global community of volunteers: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/community-support/. On the website and the wiki there are guides, manuals, tutorials and HowTos. Donations help us to make all of these resources available.

LibreOffice 6.3.3’s changelog pages are available on TDF’s wiki: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/6.3.3/RC1 (changed in RC1) and https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/6.3.3/RC2 (changed in RC2).

Firebird high-level native client for Node.js / TypeScript updated to v1.1.0 Beta 1 with support for Firebird Events

Golang Firebird sql driver gains events support with this pull request.

More info about the driver on Github repository

This talk done at Firebird Conference 2019 describes the current state of the v4 development and reviews its key features (new data types, Batch API, timezones). Dimitry Yemanov spoke about the future of Firebird development, including the updated release plan and expected post-v4 features. Review of upcoming features for Firebird 5

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New release of the RedDatabase GUI management tool is available.

You can use and test  Firebird 4.0 Beta Docker image based on Debian Buster.

Firebird 3.0.5 Testing Package is uploaded into Firebird 3.0.x ppa.

There are packages for Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic)

Firebird 3.0.5 changes are available in Jira Release Notes

Work in progress for 16.04 (Xenial).