Please test new flamerobin win32 build
There are a couple of bug fixes in SVN, and in wxWidgets land a lot has
happened during the last few months, too.
Category: Developer News
News from the Firebird developers.
Multiple buffer overflows in Firebird 2.1
Multiple buffer overflows in Firebird 2.1 allow attackers to trigger memory corruption and possibly have other unspecified impact via certain input processed by (1) configConfigFile.cpp or (2) msgscheck_msgs.epp.
DB Designer Fork 1.2 released
DB Designer Fork is a fork of the fabFORCE DBDesigner 4. DBDesigner is a visual database design system that integrates entity relationship design and database creation. DB Designer Fork generates SQL scripts for Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, and FireBird.
Release focus: Initial freshmeat announcement
La gestion des transactions dans Firebird
you can read the article translated here
La gestion des transactions dans Firebird
Présentation du concept de transaction et du modèle transactionnel de Firebird, comparaison par rapport à d’autres SGBD. Avantages et inconvénients, bonnes pratiques de conception et de programmation.
Via http://firebird-fr.eu.org/doku.php?id=wiki:rendez-vous2007
New GDS ( first thoughts )
Carlos Guzmán Álvarez wrote on dotnetprovider mailing list:
We are going to need to implement the version 11 of the Firebird Protocol (in .net provider) and review the buffer handling code to make better checks on
buffer lengths and server responses.
OpenJPA supports Firebird and JayBird
New PlasticSCM-Linux installation features
We have been working on the installers for the platforms supported. We tried to make installation even easier!
MDB2 firebird driver 1.4.1 released
You can read the Changelog and release information about the new MDB2 release.Package is maintained by Lorenzo Alberton
Firebird date & time literals
Martijn wrote on his blog: For those of you who don’t know yet, or aren’t following the Firebird-support list, Helen Borrie just posted a small part of the excellent “The Firebird Book”, the date/time literals accepted by Firebird: Firebird Date/Time Literals
Keep that one for future reference.
Docbuilding Howto and Docwriting Guide updated
The Docbuilding Howto and Docwriting Guide have been updated. The most
important modifications are: