Just released a Jaybird 2.2.4-SNAPSHOT version with a fix for Netbeans Hibernate driver loading bug: JDBC-325 download at sourceforge
New Jaybird 2.2.4 snapshot now also available on the sonatype public repository.
News via Mark Rotteveel’s tweet
Here are the steps for Building Firebird Client only for Android (arm)
Based on a comment I made in response to someone asking about the availability of Firebird on IOS (after someone mentioned that the recent release of Delphi XE5 has support for an embedded version of InterBase for iOS and Android), I thought I would write a few more details of the hows and wherefores here.
With the release of Delphi XE5, with support for iOS and Android it also brings InterBase versions of these two O.S-es, people started to question whether we can expect a version of Firebird for mobile platforms. Apparently, it will happen! Paul Beach said he already has a version of FB compiling for iOS, but it still needs testing. Anyway, the release versions for iOS / Android should not happen now, since developers are totally focused on Firebird 3 release.
News via firebase.com.br
Update:
Firebird client can be build for Android
Also on the Apple side: Paul Beach managed to cross-compile Firebird for iOS
Many developers think that transactions are straightforward and easy thing to understand and use, so probably there is no reason to devote 1 day seminar to discover transactions mechanism in Firebird in great details. Is it so?
Here I offer 3 simple questions about transactions which every Firebird developer should answer. Please take a look and choose the correct answer
Reminder from Alexey Kovyazin
As you probably know, November 22, 2013 in in Siegburg (Germany) there
will be Firebird seminar, devoted to all aspects of transactions, from
the basic idea to the internal implementation, about the best practices
and guidance how to effectively use transactions in the applications,
and, of course, performance analysis of transactions and related areas.
More details:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-conference-tour-2013/
Please feel free to ask any questions.
Ștefan Suciu announced his work on Implementing support for Firebird in Sqitch :
I’m workingto implement support for Firebird (in the firebird branch) in Sqitch – a database change management application.
Contributions are welcome! on Github
https://github.com/stefansbv/sqitch/tree/firebird
New GSOC update for the previous week with
current status of the firebird-sdbc driver :
Progress this week: - Some dbexception cleanup. - Fixed ColumnLocate::findColumn implementations (for all db drivers) and api definition. - Fixed index rebuilding. - Tried to experiment with different ICU versions, but haven't managed to actually produce any errors when switching ICU version - Fixed formatting of integers as a currency, integers now show as a number and not currency by default. - Fixed segfault when setting Null as first value in PreparedStatement. - Reintroduce statement specific Mutexes (instead of a connection-wide Mutex). - Implemented simple firebird unit tests to see that we can really transfer a .fdb between machines with different OS/CPU/bit-ness. - Some generic cleanups. - Tried to create a hsqldb cppunit-test.
From: Mateusz Loskot I'm very pleased to announce release of SOCI 3.2.2 which is mainly a bugfix release with some improvements and features too. The source packages are available for download from SF.net: https://sourceforge.net/projects/soci/files/soci/soci-3.2.2/ or directly from the Git repository in 3.2.2 tag: https://github.com/SOCI/soci/tree/3.2.2 By the way, all packages and tags are also available from automatically generated releases at GitHub (new feature): https://github.com/SOCI/soci/releases Documentation for the current 3.2 line is available at http://soci.sourceforge.net/doc.html Version 3.2.2 differs from 3.2.1 in the following ways: ... - Firebird -- Enable memory cleanup to avoid leaks after binding -- Added missing C++ library headers -- Added get_affected_rows() support for bulk operations -- Fixed compilation with VS2008 -- Fixed building tests with the backend built as DLL.
New GSOC update for the previous week with
current status of the firebird-sdbc driver :
Progress this week:
– Made libatomic-ops buildable meaning that we should now be able to build embedded firebird on non-X86 systems too
– Added rebuilding of indices to deal with the icu collation issues.
– Implemented a simple .odb loading test (in gerrit atm.) that also
tests that the embedded firebird .fdb can be connected to.
– Implemented Index retrieval and dropping
– More fixes to do with the firebird temporary and lock directories
– Some coverity fixes
– Started working on foreign key retrieval
Code commits can be reviewed in the LibreOffice git repository
