Author: mariuz

Martin Köditz completed the German translation of the Firebird Cache document. For everybody interested in it, please visit the HTML version. The PDF can be found here.

The Debian project is pleased to announce the third update of its stable distribution Debian 7 (codename wheezy). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustments for serious problems.

This version is released with Firebird security fixes and includes the latest Firebird 2.5 update . Please consult the changelog for more information.

His patch to implement support for Firebird in Sqitch (a database change management application) has reached a milestone – is merged.

NorpaNet aims foremost to be an European project.
Articulated on FirebirdSQL 3.0 and Oxygene of RemObjects (this not your daddy’s Pascal), NorpaNet is an application written in pascal object for dot net including the modules CMS, ERP, Shop and CRM.
Initiated, developed and maintained by Tetrasys & Generation-Eco, all collaboration proposals for this European project is welcome. We do of course accept English but do not want to limit this to English only.
Currently in version 0.0.0.8 Alpha, the functional analysis is based on our knowledge of the sources of MojoPortal, SplendidCRM, OpenERP & NopCommerce.

pyfirebirdsql Version 0.8.1 is released with following changes
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– bug fix (send all packets)

ps: what is interesting is adding of srp auth support in master branch

The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 4.2 International Bug Hunting Session, which will start on December 6th and will end on December 8th. During the three days, volunteers from all over the world will test the beta of LibreOffice 4.2 to find bugs and regressions.

LibreOffice 4.2 will be released at the end of January 2014, with a large number of new features (https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.2) and loads of fixed bugs. The community is working to make this major release the finest in the history of the free office suite.

In order to join the bug hunting session, volunteers should download LibreOffice 4.2 Beta 2, available fromhttp://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/.

Mentors will be available at least from 08:00 UTC to 22:00 UTC, and will be reachable through IRC (irc://chat.freenode.net/libreoffice-qa) and the QA mailing list.

Other information on LibreOffice 4.2 International Bug Hunting Session are available at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugHunting_Session_4.2.0.

What is interesting for Firebird is finding/fixing bugs related to Libreoffice Base and Firebird

• NEW TECHNOLOGY PREVIEW FEATURE: Firebird SQL connector for LibreOffice Base (Andrzej Hunt). When creating a new Database, select Firebird Embedded in the drop down menu (you have to first enable the Experimental features in Tools ▸ Options ▸ LibreOffice ▸Advanced). This allows creation of databases that perform many times faster than the previous built-in HSQLDB 1.8, avoiding the C++-to-Java overhead inherent in using HSQLDB. We plan to phase HSQLDB out over the next few releases, and provide a smooth migration path to Firebird. Connecting to modern HSQLDB 2.x external databases remains available through HSQLDB’s native interface, namely JDBC.

pyfirebirdsql Version 0.8.0 is released with following changes
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– refactoring
– buf fix
– add ‘role’ parameter to connection
– fetch right striped string if CHAR type
– fetch string if BLOB subtype 1
– boolean type support (Firebird 3)
– connection keep only one transaction
– ‘INSERT … RETURNING …’ statement support

Here are short videos from Firebird seminars

Firebird Seminar in Siegburg, Nov 22, 2013

and
Firebird seminar Prague, Nov 25, 2013