Firebird embedded example for delphi is now ported to lazarus
I modified fb_embedded2.pas originally written for Delphi by Fikret Hasovic. Now it works with Lazarus!
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
Vulnerability in Firebird database – heise report
Security service provider Core Security has announced the discovery of a vulnerability in the Firebird open source database. Attackers could exploit the vulnerability to inject arbitrary code onto the server.
Firebird Relational Database ‘protocol.cpp’ XDR Protocol Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Firebird is prone to an integer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to ensure that integer values aren’t overrun. Attackers may exploit this issue to overflow a buffer and to corrupt process memory.
Attackers may be able to execute arbitrary machine code in the context of an affected application. Failed exploit attempts will likely result in a denial-of-service condition.
Synchronization changes in cvs HEAD
A bunch of major changes has just been committed into HEAD. This message
is intended to explain the details.
2008 Readers’ Choice Survey on linuxjournal.com
You can aswer to the question :What is your favorite database?
http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1006101
Linux Journal‘s Readers’ Choice Awards offer the opportunity for readers to vote for their Linux and Open Source favorites. We compiled nominations and came up with the below list — if your favorite is not listed in any category, we encourage you to write-in your vote (it’s also ok to skip voting in categories not applicable to you).
great news for firebird .net provider
Jiri wrote on the mailing list
I have a great news for you. 🙂 I’ve got offer from Paul Beach to
continue with developement of NETProvider as lead and maintaining it
etc. I’ve accepted and I’ve got some privileges to do the “maintaining
work”. So the project isn’t dead. I hope we’ll kick-up the FB & .NET.
🙂
libdbi and libdbi-driver 0.8.3 pre released
I’ve uploaded tarballs of the current libdbi and libdbi-drivers cvs
versions. Both will identify themselves as 0.8.3-pre1. I intend to
release them as 0.8.3 shortly, unless someone finds showstoppers.
interesting stats on the php lists
you can check the php lists stats that are related to firebird
JVCS 2.50 Beta 1 released – 1st branching support release!
The JVCS team is happy to announce JEDI VCS 2.50 Beta 1, which is the first beta version of the second JVCS release.
This beta version targets experienced JEDI VCS users which are interested in branching functionality.
phpMyFAQ 2.0.5 released
The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 2.0.5, the “With a Little Help From My Friends” release. This release fixes the lighttpd rewrite rules and many minor bugs.
[Ed. note] phpMyFAQ supports Firebird as storage database.