Author: mariuz

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.2.

I found the sample app on the xdenser git repo node-fb-sample

I have made a few small changes to make it work with current node/express (already pushed to original repository) also i have added a few instructions to install dependencies

I have synced Firebird 2.5.2 package with version in Debian including icu 52.1
loading fix for all supported releases.

The icu loading issue is fixed in Ubuntu Trusty Tahr 14.04 Firebird 2.5 package
ps: Support for Raring was removed (no longer supported by Canonical)

The first encounter with unicode databases and collations on Firebird may be confusing, as it was for me and it may take some time to grasp the concepts and settings. This article describes the principles and catches and gives the examples how to set up a UTF-8 database in Firebird SQL server 2.5, how to setup ICU libraries and how to use national collations (eg. czech).

A few years ago Helen Borrie set up a firebird-delphi group and then somehow
managed not to list it on our support pages – so it has no members and
no traffic. Yahoo is going to delete it on March 6 unless I inform
them that we want to keep it.

Do we want to keep it?

Probably rdb$db_key is the best kept Firebird secret, because it gives the user some extra power to access records in raw mode.

News via via linkedin firebird group

Here you can find result of checking Firebird with PVS-Studio (in Russian).
And now the article is in English too

PVS-Studio is a static analyzer that detects errors in source code of C/C++/C++11 applications

Update: here is the Firebird-Devel discussion on the topic
Also the article is published in English

pyfirebirdsql Version 0.9.0 is released with experimental Firebird 3.0 SRP auth support

See the previous discussion on Firebird-devel list.

Here is the Firebird 3.0 example that works for me

Libreoffice new release with small fix for firebird sql driver fdo#74160 firebird XParameters::setString truncate to 65535 characters [Lionel Elie Mamane]
You can check release note here
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/4.2.1/RC1

Thanks to assistance from Alex, we now have Firebird 3.0 building on MacOSX 10.8 with XCode 4.6.3

Regards
Paul

You can ask on firebird-devel list for the new builds