Author: mariuz

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.4.2.

This extension adds Firebird database engine extension for the Yii framework 2.0.

https://github.com/edgardmessias/yii2-firebird

Extension is developed from scratch, to be support 100% of Yii2. Also all unit tests are added for Yii2.

All functions for the ActiveRecord are working and almost complete for use in migrations.

pyfirebirdsql Version 0.9.8 is released with following fixes

• fix issue #58 wrong logic for handling lage BLOBs.
• update error messages (from Firebird3.0 beta 2 release header)

A new branch for Laravel 5.1 is created .

Changelog compared with master branch :

Added column->length to string type.

Change index name limit to 31 character #10.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.0.0 Beta 1. This is the third pre-release of the new PHP 7 major series. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs and incompatibilities in the bug tracking system.

A new open source web-based Firebird Admin Tool based on Python 3 and fdb – firewad

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Firebird 3.0 beta 2 is tagged and it will be released very soon

https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/core/tree/T3_0_0_Beta2

You can check the release notes for Beta 2 an try a Firebird 3.0 snapshot

Python Firebird driver fdb version 1.4.9 released

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

With a few fixes:

• PYFB-51 : <procedure>.get_sql_for(‘<re>create’) returns invalid output parameters
• PYFB-52 : isc_info* types which are _DATABASE_INFO_CODES_WITH_COUNT_RESULTS raises TypeError: ‘float’ object cannot be interpreted as an integer

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Contributed R&D from Elekt Labs – Improved Firebird engine RLE for record compression

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This is a fork of the Firebird FDB module It has been modified to bundle a copy of the fb embedded server libraries so it can be used stanalone without a
separate installation of firebird database.