Author: mariuz

Firebird 4 planning board is updated for the current month : October 2017

IBObjects 5.9.5 Build 2652 is available. For more information please see the Release Notes.

Here is the announcement by Jason Wharton

All,

I am delighted to announce the official release of IBO 5.9.5 Build 2652  today.

This release provides support for the latest version of Delphi and C++ Builder (10.2 Tokyo Update 1) as well as some other significant improvements.

For all of the details, please see the Release Notes here:
www.ibobjects.com/ReleaseNotes.rtf 

I’d like to remind everyone of the new documentation file in the previous release.

Please look in your ibo5\docs sub-folder for the Optimizing Queries and Transactions file.

One of the main issues solved was improved handling of complex queries that have input parameters with the same name but with different underlying field types, and also when these parameters get pulled into other internal cursors when IBO is automatically handling things like fetching individual records, performing locates, virtualizing the dataset for horizontal dataset refinement, record counts, and so on.

Thank you to everyone who continues to keep your license subscriptions up to date. IBO continues to be my full-time endeavor and I really enjoy working for all of you because you are who makes it possible.

Please visit http://community.ibobjects.com and login and download the latest.

Kind regards,

Jason Wharton

www.ibobjects.com

Perl extension DBD::Firebird version 1.25 is released with a few bigdecimal/numeric related changes :

• Add tests for values between 0 and ±1 to bigdecimal[_read].t
• dbd_st_fetch: fix conversion of numerics between -1 and 0
• Add a variant of t/92_bigdecimal_read.t using numeric(18,10)

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