Shared Page Cache is coming

One of the biggest tasks for the long-awaited Firebird 3.0 release is the Shared Page Cache feature. With this feature, Firebird will finally be able to fully benefit of SMP machines without having to work with individual cache for every connection.

Vlad Khorsun had been busy working on this, and judging by recent commits to SoundForge, the task is almost finished. Part of the code came from Vulcan. He hopes that people will help doing lots of tests when the first alpha release appears.

Note: Up to now, Shared Cache was only available in the SuperServer model, but SS is not optimized for SMP.

Firebird 2.1.4 is out!

The Firebird Project team is pleased to announce the latest minor release in the Firebird 2.1 series, v.2.1.4, addressing bugs that have arisen since the v.2.1.3 release in 2009.

Kits are ready to download for Linux, Windows and MacOSX on both 32-bit and 64-bit Intel platforms. For MacOSX, LIPO (fat client) packages are included and PowerPC kits will follow soon.

Thanks to those who participated in testing snapshots and the release candidate during the months past. Enjoy!

Helen, on behalf of the Firebird team

Firebird 2.5.1 Snapshot is now in #Debian experimental

For people who want to live on the edge , there is a new upload in experimental for 2.5 release branch

New firebird 3.0 snapshot uploaded to #ubuntu Maverick ppa

New snapshot of firebird 3.0 is uploaded from debian experimental for testing and here are some numbers compared with firebird 2.5.1

1 8 9 10 11 12 27