Firebird Project Releases Firebird 2.5 Zeta 2

“The Firebird Project today officially releases the much-anticipated version 2.5 Zeta 2 of its open source Firebird relational database software.

The 2.5 release has many interesting new features that you can play with, like database triggers, temporary and monitoring tables, common table expressions, recursive queries and dozens of new inbuilt functions. We encourage you to see what you can achieve with these new features and let us know about any deficiency.

Windows ,MacOSX ,Linux kits fir 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are ready to download now You are invited to test it furiously and report your experiences (good or bad) back to the firebird-devel list.

It brings with it a large collection of long-awaited enhancements that  significantly improve performance, security and support for international languages and realise some desirable new SQL language features. Under the surface, it also provides a much more robust code platform from which the re-architecting planned for Firebird 3.0 is proceeding.

The Firebird project roadmap for 2008 is now available.”

New Firebird packages fix several vulnerabilities in debian

This Debian security advisory is a bit unusual. While it’s normally
our strict policy to backport security bugfixes to older releases, this
turned out to be infeasible for Firebird 1.5 due to large infrastructural
changes necessary to fix these issues. As a consequence security support
for Firebird 1.5 is hereby discontinued, leaving two options to
administrators running a Firebird database:

Codice Software Unveils Plastic SCM 2.0 To Manage Developer Teams Completing Multiple Software Branches

Codice, a producer of software solutions to provide more efficiency in application development, today announced Plastic SCM, a cross-platform software configuration management solution that streamlines how software applications are assembled. Application development teams use Plastic SCM to manage parallel development, where multiple developers work on building software at once, even from geographically dispersed locations, resulting in faster and more efficient work and better quality software.

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