Author: mariuz

FDB Python driver for Firebird v1.8 is available for download.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb

NOTE: Due to API and other changes at PyPI, the link to FDBdocumentation at PyPI project page still points to version 1.7. For
details please refer to documentation bundled with FDB distribution.

What’s new:

* In relation to (PYFB-71) a better memory exhaustion safeguard was
implemented for materialized blobs. See Working with BLOBs for details.
* Added service support for backup and restore from/to local byte
stream. See local_backup() and local_restore() for details.
* Added attribute fdb.schema.TableColumn.id (RDB$FIELD_ID)
* Added method fdb.BlobReader.get_info().

best regards
Pavel Cisar
IBPhoenix

Firebird high-level native client for Node.js / TypeScript updated to v0.0.1-alpha.4 with a few changes

Jacques van Zuydam created the following branch for Laravel 5.5 support

For Laravel 5.5 support use:

composer require jacquestvanzuydam/laravel-firebird:dev-5.5-support

Mark Rotteveel “I have created a small application to demonstrate how to use Firebird Embedded (version 3) together with Jaybird 3.”

The Firebird JDBC team is happy to announce the release of Jaybird 3.0.2.

Jaybird 3.0.2 contains the following fixes and changes:

• Fixed: Specifying an unknown Java character set in connection property charSet or localEncoding was handled as if no connection character set had been specified, now we throw an exception that the character set is unknown. (JDBC-498)
• Changed: Specifying a connection character set is no longer required, and will now default to NONE again, if system property org.firebirdsql.jdbc.defaultConnectionEncoding is not specified. (JDBC-502)

See the Jaybird 3.0.2 release notes for more information. Jaybird 3.0.2 can be downloaded from the JDBC Driver page.

Firebird update to 2.5.7 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 6 with Security fix for CVE-2017-6369

FYI: The status of the firebird3.0 source package
in Debian’s testing distribution has changed.

Previous version: 3.0.2.32703.ds4-4
Current version: 3.0.2.32703.ds4-9

Here is the debian changelog

Jiří Činčura is getting closer to Version 1 for Firebird External engine written in C# 7

You can load any .NET code in FbNetExternalEngine also as Proof Of Concept you can also
load Firebird Embedded inside that in server (Firebird inside Firebird in DotNet External Engine).

There is an interesting discussion on firebird-devel about changing the hash function in Firebird (related to CORE-4436)