Few days ago I wrote a post “Custom conventions in Entity Framework 6 helping Firebird“.Arthur Vickers from Entity Framework team had a good question whether it works also for columns and tables that are generated by Entity Framework (like join tables for M:N, FK columns (if not in model), etc.). And it actually does not. 
For this you have to dig a little bit deeper and use model-based convention.
New Firebird packages that fix security bug #9322 in Mageia are available for Mageia 2 and Cauldron
An important security fix for Firebird is pushed to Fedora and EPEL
Please update your servers.
Here is how the patch looks if you want to apply to other Linux distros
You can watch the for Daily Firebird builds and tests suite results created on a Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
There are results for G++ compiler warnings
Also the console output can be consulted for the running and finished QA tests
FDB release 1.0 is out:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb
Improvements:
– Removed dependency on presence of fbclient library at import time. This caused some confusion to new users when fdb install failed when Firebird was not (yet) installed.
Bugs Fixed:
Here is the comment from Jason Wharton on FreePascal 2.6.2 release news
And, in case you wonder, IB Objects works great in Lazarus.
Mark Rotteveel mentioned he is updating the content for the JDBC Driver wiki
I started updating the #Jaybird wiki on http://jaybirdwiki.firebirdsql.org/ #firebird
Mark Rotteveel wrote on twitter about the Jaybird improvement:
Writing a new implementation of the wire protocol in Jaybird. I fear it is going to cascade into a total rewrite of the driver
Jiri chatted later:
IMO the whole “communication layer” needs redesign. It’s (way) too legacy.
And later on the twitter channel Brent Rowland wrote:
Contemplating creating a new wire protocol. Stop me now…
I have a replication system for Firebird I need to extend across a WAN. Firebird has no built-in replication and the protocol is chatty.
Editor:All these conversations are around Firebird 2.5.x protocol , there is work conducted by Dmitry Yemanov on improving the Firebird 3.x protocol
FPC 2.6.2 has landed. FPC 2.6.2 is an update to 2.6.0 that
contains most library progress over the 2.6.0 and some crucial
compiler fixes.
Building is still in progress and some formats (deb,rpm) and targets might
not be available yet.
Changes that may break backwards compatibility are documented at:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.6.2
For Downloads, please use sourceforge
https://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/
Enjoy!
The Free Pascal Compiler Team
News via Lazarus Forum
Django Firebird driver is now available from pypi
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-firebird
This was announced on twitter by Maximiliano Robaina
