News from the Firebird developers.
New article from IBSurgeon: All Firebird and InterBase On-Disk-Structure (ODS) versions
It contains the list of ODS versions of all Firebird and InterBase releases, and describes their compatibility.
New 5.0.0.0 version of ADO.NET provider for Firebird is ready for download. As you can see the major version number changed.
This release contains two new big features, both focused on Firebird 3. The BOOLEAN datatype is now supported (except Entity Framework mapping, currently). And SRP authentication is supported on Firebird 3. I think these are the most fundamental new features so I’m releasing it now. There’s more to come.
A new article from IBSurgeon: 45 Ways To Speed Up Firebird Database.
Devart company continues to improve their connectivity solutions including ODBC driver for Firebird.
Recently company released new version of it’s driver which now has beta support of Linux and Mac OS. You can download new drivers now
Hello everyone!
We have an excellent New Year present for all our users — the 27th update of IBProvider v3!
We have done everything we promised. And even little more.
The new IBProvider can directly connect not only to Firebird 2.5 but also to all previous releases: FB0.9, FB1, FB1.5, FB2.0 and FB2.1.
Full news text: http://www.ibprovider.com/eng/news/n_151217.html
Hello everyone!
We have finished development of the new subsystem «IBProvider Professional Edition» that allows you to work with Firebird 2.5 via INET-protocol (TCP/IP) without fbclient.dll.
And we suggest IBProvider users test the next version 3.27 with own systems.
Full news text: http://www.ibprovider.com/eng/news/n_151202.html
You can often see the following question in Firebird technical support groups: “What is the hardware of choice for the Firebird DBMS?”. This topic remains permanently popular because hardware requirements differ by tasks and hardware itself changes with time.
We in IBSurgeon decided to write Firebird Hardware guide in order to provide the necessary knowledge to anyone who wants to choose truly effective hardware for their Firebird database. To do it, you will have to learn some basic details on how Firebird, the operating system and, of course, hardware functions.
http://ib-aid.com/en/articles/firebird-hardware-guide/
