Author: mariuz

On October 24-25, 2014 in Prague, we hosted an international conference of Firebird. Attended by 110 participants, 18 speakers presented 23 interesting presentations.

The conference was open with core developers of Firebird Dmitry Emanov and Vlad Khorsun, with reports about new features of Firebird 3, which is preparing to release in early 2015, and Firebird 4 (2016). The most important news is the reduction of a release cycle, and focus on the fault tolerance and performance.

This year’s conference received a strong Russian presence in addition to core developers from Russia were Pavel Zotov (Firebird QA) with a presentation about a realistic test of highly databases Firebird, Roman Simakov, a leading developer Red Database (commercial version of Firebird with certification for the Russian state organizations ) and Alexey and Dmitry Kuzmenko Kovyazin of IBase.ru ( IBSurgeon ).

In addition, 2 platinum and 1 silver sponsor was from Russia – Moscow Exchange, iBase (IBSurgeon) and RedSoft respectively.
Of course, in addition to Russian, were speakers from the USA, Brazil, UK, France, Netherlands and other countries.

Special guests, speakers at the conference were Ann Harrison and Jim Starkey. Jim Starkey is known for being the original developer of InterBase (back in the 80s), and architect solutions such as Falcon (MySQL), NuoDB, Netfrastructure and AmorphousDB.

Firebird driver developers, Jiri Cincura and Mark Rotteveel, spoke about Firebird.NET and Java. The second talk of Mark’s was about Java and jOOq was also supported by Lucas Eder, original creator of jOOq.

You can download all the presentations from the conference as a single archive:
firebirdsql.org/file/community/conference-2014/pdf/firebird_conference_2014_presentations.zip
or view them separately (along with some selected photos from the conference):
ib-aid.com/en/articles/firebird-conference-2014-report-ibsurgeon/

Original article
http://habrahabr.ru/post/243855/

This mostly bugfix version introduces a backward incompatible change to events API, so read the Release Notes before deployment.

IPv6 support is now landed in firebird trunk , please test ipv6 support from Firebird 3.x snapshots for Linux and Windows.
Thanks to Michal Kubecek for his contribution

You can read Developers reports from previous months (until September/October)

• Pavel Zotov, 2014-10
• Philippe Makowski, 2014-10
• Alexander Potapchenko, 2014-10
• Alex Peshkov,2014-10
• Jiri Cincura,2014-10
• Other Core developer reports

ps:I didn’t remember to be posted here on FirebirdNews .
You can view also the presentation/reports from Firebird conference

GoLang firebird driver suports firebird wire protocol 11 (implemented in firebird 2.1)

More info via nakagami’s blog

PyFirebirdsql Version 0.9.5 is released
with Firebird Wire Protocol 11 support.
More info via nakagami’s blog

Firebird Wire Protocol 11 was introduced in Firebird 2.1
What is left is protocol 12 introduced in Firebird 2.5
Protocol 13 is already implemented (Firebird 3.0)

Jason Wharton wrote on ibolist:

I have released a new version of IB Objects.

The primary objective of this release is to provide support for RAD Studio XE7.

There have been some bugs fixed as well.

Please see the release notes for details: http://www.ibobjects.com/ReleaseNotes.rtf

Maximiliano Robaina wrote on django-firebird-dev list

I just upload a new branch into the main repository. This new branch “develop” [1] has the implementation to support django 1.7.
I’ll like have got some feedback about it, so just clone the repo and switch to “develop” branch to try with django 1.7.

Let me know what is wrong or just submit an issue entry.
Keep in touch.

[1] https://github.com/maxirobaina/django-firebird/tree/develop

Donation page is now updated so you can contribute to that sepecific fund

http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/donate/

On 31 October, 2014, the Firebird Project released the Firebird 2.5 Language Reference in Russian, a large documentation task sponsored by Moscow Exchange, one of the biggest Firebird users in the world, and IBSurgeon (tools and services for Firebird). Several Russian-speaking Firebird Project core developers participated in creating this tome of almost 500 pages  to ensure its quality.  Coming up will be the extensions (also in Russian) covering Firebird 3.