If you are using Free Pascal / Lazarus to develop applications that needs to access FireBird database, or you need to run applications that has been written using FreePascal/Lazarus and Firebird database, make sure you have installed Firebird client library
Fenixsql simple multiplatform admin tool for Firebird developed with Firebird Library and released under GPL License (produced with Lazarus ide)
Here you can find the latest stable release Firebird 2.5.2 for all supported Ubuntu releases.
Follow the Firebird 2.5.x guide for usage and installation.
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A denial of service flaw was found in the way the TraceManager of
Firebird, performed preparation of an empty dynamic SQL query. When the trace mode was
enabled, a remote, authenticated database user could use this flaw
to cause the Firebird server to crash with a NULL pointer dereference.
References: [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=693210
[2] http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-3884
[3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=876613
Relevant upstream patch: [4]
http://firebird.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/firebird?pathrev=54702&revision=54702&view=revision
The packaging is ready and anybody wanting to build the package can
find the sources in the Git repository[1]. Since Debian is in a freeze
preparing to its next release, I asked the release team for a freeze
exception[2]. It would be great to have the final release in
Debian/wheezy.
[1] http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-firebird/2.5.git;a=summary
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/693216
sudo su
apt-get git-core devscripts
apt-get build-dep firebird2.5
git clone http://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-firebird/2.5.git
cd 2.5
git-buildpackage
Ignore the last error debsign: gpg error occurred! Aborting (it only for Debian maintainers who sign the package like Damyan)
all the packages will be in ../
you can install for example firebird super classic this way
cd ../
sudo dpkg -i firebird2.5-superclassic* firebird2.5-common* firebird2.5-server-common* firebird2.5-classic-common*
ps: the above instructions were tested on Ubuntu 12.10 , Stable Firebird ppa is updated for all Ubuntu Releases
Changelog for the pure JavaScript Node.js Firebird driver:
You can install or update from npmjs and you can consult the Commit History
This session explains a few of the more important firebird.conf parameters.
In this tutorial we take a look at configuring Firebird aliases, files and paths
Jesus Ángel Garcia Zarco wrote on LinkedIn Firebird group:
Hello Marius, this is the number of our system:
205 Domains
1032 Tables
225 Views
1450 Stored procedures
3217 Triggers
36 Generators
405 exceptions
Here are the Firebird 2.5.2 packages for Fedora and RedHat Enterprise Linux
Here is one picture with a Database that contains more than 1000 Stored Procedures
