Firebird 1.5.1 Mac OSX Panther to Tiger upgrade crash
The old Firebird-CS-1.5.1.pkg isn’t compatible with macosx Tiger, please
download the latest package from SF (1.5.3). That should work.
Category: Firebird Releases
Annoucements about Firebird oficial releases.
Firebird 1.5.x MacOsX download page is now updated
It points now to the right page
Vuln: Firebird Remote Pre-Authentication Database Name Buffer Overrun Vulnerability
Old vulnerability surfaced up from the deep . If you have an old Firebird 1.5.x please upgrade to latest version
ps: seems that securityfocus is updating their own vuln database so this is why it surfaced up again (the bug was squashed long long time ago)
Where to find daily snaphots of firebird 2.1?
pdk63 asked :”Is it possible to download them from somewhere? I don’t seem to find them, neither at FirebirdSQL nor IBPhoenix.”
Well there are some daily Firebird 2.1 (HEAD) builds snaphots for linux from http://www.dqteam.com/fb2/HEAD/.
Soon some windows builds will be uploaded on main firebirdsql.org site
better looking logo for firebird
Hellen wrote on the Firebird-general list:
We have a logo that serves us well, is simple, uncluttered and
distinctive, and looks great on a t-shirt. 🙂
firebird 2.0 in the freebsd ports repository
the freshports page is here.
What is a port?
A port is the term used to describe a collection of files which makes it extremely easy to install an application. As it says in the FreeBSD Ports description: Installing an application is as simple as downloading the port, unpacking it and typing make in the port directory.
Firebird Final V2.0 Released
The Firebird Project yesterday evening officially released the much-anticipated Version 2.0 of the Firebird relational database during the opening session of the fourth international Firebird conference. This release brings a large collection of long-awaited enhancements that significantly improve performance, functionality, security and international language support.
It was announced at the Firebird Conference in Prague, Czech Republic
Porting firebird 2.0 for MAC OS X
Hi all, I [Jakub Zeman] fixed firebird 2.0 RC4 for MAC OS X. You will need following tools:
Recent porting efforts
Two Linux ports have been contributed recently – MIPSEL and PowerPC (credits go to Fabrice Aeschbacher and Damyan Ivanov). Also, Paul Beach has ported v1.5.3 to HP-UX (already available for download) and Alex Peshkoff has almost completed porting the same version to AIX. And finally, port to Win64 (so far AMD64 and EM64T only) is committed into the HEAD branch and will be available in the v2.1 release.
via Firebird Developer’s Journal
The Firebird 2 Quick Start Guide is now 100% ready
The Firebird 2 Quick Start Guide is now 100% ready, and available at this URL
http://www.firebirdsql.org/pdfmanual/Firebird-2.0-QuickStart.pdf