Author: mariuz

PHP 7.0.15 RC1 was just released and can be downloaded from:

https://downloads.php.net/~ab/

The Windows binaries are available at

http://windows.php.net/qa/

This release contains a number of bugfixes.
For the list of bugfixes that you can target in your testing, please refer
to the NEWS file:

https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.0.15RC1/NEWS

Please test it carefully, and report any bugs in the bug system.

The stable release is planned for January 19th, if no critical issues will
be discovered in the RC.

Dorin Marcoci Added Firebrid native type mapping for integers (smallint, integer, bigint) in PDO_Firebird driver

Testing is welcome! You need to compile his own branch

Related PDO_Firebird feature request https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72583

Dorin Marcoci commited a few more fixes in PHP master branch related to Firebird PDO driver  :

Cursor is not opened on singleton selects. See the related PR #2241 .

PDO test compatibility with Firebird & Oracle select syntax. See the related PR #2244

Fix for PDO_Firebird bug #65689. PDO_Firebrid / exec() does not free allocated statement.

This leaves just a few bugs open for PDO_Firebird (some are feature requests).

Firebird 3.0.1 is packaged in Debian testing and in unstable

For Ubuntu we recommend Firebird 3.0 ppa where package is imported directly from Debian repository

Ubuntu Supported Versions  : Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety) , 16.04 (Xenial)  and 14.04 (Trusty)

Firebird 3.0 popcon graph for Debian is here

ps: Firebird 2.5 is removed from Debian archive (replaced by Firebird 3.0 package in Debian unstable and testing)

Jaybird 2.2.12 is released

Jaybird 3.0 Beta 2 is released

We would really appreciate if you could start testing your applications with this version and provide feedback on stability and behaviour, but also on the release notes. Feedback can be sent to the Firebird-java mailinglist or on the issue tracker

Jaybird 3.0 is a big change from Jaybird 2.2 and earlier. We have rewritten the entire low-level implementation to be able to support protocol improvements in newer Firebird versions, we have made changes with a stricter interpretation of the JDBC requirements, and we have removed some parts that were either obsolete or not functioning correctly.

We recommend that you do not consider Jaybird 3.0 a drop-in replacement for Jaybird 2.2, and study the release notes carefully.

The main article is in Japanese for Firebird AdventCalender 2016

Simonov Denis published another part on Howto work with Firebird – and PHP for beginners (In Russian)

Here you can find the latest stable release Firebird 2.5 for supported Ubuntu releases:16.04 (Xenial),  14.04 (Trusty), 12.04 (Precise)
Follow the Firebird 2.5.x guide for usage and installation.

ps : Firebird 2.5.6 is already included in Yakkety Yak (Ubuntu 16.10)