Firebird: Buffer overflow and the patch for gentoo
A vulnerability has been discovered in Firebird, allowing for the
execution of arbitrary code.
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
Plastic SCM 1.5 is out!
We are very happy to announce the new Plastic SCM 1.5 release!
FirebirdClient v2.5.0 Alpha 1 released.
FirebirdClient v2.5.0 Alpha 1, ADO.NET Data Provider for Microsoft .NET
2.0, and mono is available for download.
Is time to vote firebird in SF Community Choice Awards 2007
Here is the page for voting firebird http://sourceforge.net/community/index.php/landing-pages/cca07/
News via phoronix.com
Linux Gains Windows Muscle with LAMP/WAMP/FLAP/FWAP stack
One of the most important recent developments in the open source world is the rise of integrated open source enterprise stacks. Many run on Windows, too, so they offer the Microsoft IT community a range of interesting — and free — alternatives to traditional solutions.
[ED: no wonder that InfoWorld is covering a survey of North American developers that claims that Linux is gaining share as the number of developers targeting Windows fell 11 percent over the last year]
Bad news for martin … but maybe next year
Well, it’s official – we’ve told our sponsors we won’t be participating in the rallye this year. There’s a news items up at our team website about it.
fbexport 1.67 and fbcopy 1.52 released
Firebird 2.1 Beta 1 Ready for Field Testing
The Firebird team is pleased to announce that the first Beta builds of
Firebird V.2.1 are ready for testing. Binary and source kits should
start appearing at the Sourceforge mirrors today.
Download links for all the released kits can be found here:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=fb210_beta01
Release Notes are here:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/devel/doc/rlsnotes/html/rlsnotes21.html
Dmitry
FlameRobin worth $1.2 milion
I added FlameRobin to ohloh.net. It took our code from repository and calculated the development cost: 1.200.000 USD. Wow, I guess nobody would want to invest that kind of money into FR, but we invested our time/work instead 🙂
FbConsole 0.7.0 released
FbConsole 0.7.0 is an IronPython and Windows Forms console for working with the Firebird database (ED:inspired by flamerobin)