Author: mariuz

Ruby Firebird Extension Library 0.7.4 release fixes a scaling bug in fb for 32-bit architectures
and now builds cleanly and passes tests on Ruby 1.8.6 thru 2.1.0

News via Brent Rowland

Paul Vinkenoog wrote about the Language Reference Progress (Select section 80% complete in DML chapter)
The latest sources are in CVS (manual/src/docs/refdocs/langref/langref25/)

The SELECT section is now about 80% ready. The only subsections that still need to be completed are ORDER BY, FOR UPDATE and WITH LOCK.
The other DML sections should be complete and correct.

ps: this progress status is related to DML chapter status not the other chapters

If you want to translate you can contact firebird-docs

The Russian Misson Control Center uses Firebird.

I quote Alex Peshkoff on the Firebird Development list

FYI – our colleagues from the Mission Control Center tested format of
VMT in the following environment
Intel(R) Itanium(R) Processor 9310
HP-UX B.11.31
HP C/aC++ Version A.06.26

and it differs from what we have on windows/linux. I do not have access
to that box myself, so I can’t report what is actually that format. But
an attempt to access it as we do on windows/linux cause an error.

I have asked Alex and is confirmed

Q: Can you confirm this news ? , I have saw it on ibphoenix and then
Adriano asked if is true
Alex:
I never use twitter (and same sites), but looking at subj I can say – yes, they do.
And they use it on rather specific HW, including itanium with HPUX.

PHPNG (next generation) is the branch for the next php release (PHP 7). There are a few steps for firebird extension (ibase) in order to work with the new engine : You can clone the repository and test php master branch from git.
The extension changelog is here.
(There are a few patches already submitted by Dmitry Stogov)

ps: pdo_firebird seems already supported and is in the list of extensions already converted
Update: phpng is merged into php master branch

Active Record Firebird Adapter 0.8.9 is updated with a few cleanups and fixes:
Changed quotes behavior for dialect 1 (an ancient Firebird dialect)

Read this page for the new features. This version contains huge modifications done by Reinier Olislagers (BigChimp).

There are Linux 32/64 bits, Windows 32/64 bits Download binaries. You can install the source and compile it using Lazarus in any other Platform that already supported by Lazarus.

Here you can find the latest stable release Firebird 2.5.3 for LTS supported Ubuntu releases.
Follow the Firebird 2.5.x guide for usage and installation.

This is an update from upstream 2.5.3

Firebird (2.5.3.26778.ds4-1) is uploaded
to Debian unstable with the following changelog