Category: General news

Here are short videos from Firebird seminars

Firebird Seminar in Siegburg, Nov 22, 2013

and
Firebird seminar Prague, Nov 25, 2013

Mark Rotteveel announced :
As Jaybird 2.3 is going to be a big change from Jaybird 2.2, I have
decided to renumber the version to Jaybird 3.0.

Changes planned for Jaybird 2.3 are now planned for Jaybird 3.0. Changes
planned for Jaybird 3.0 are now planned for Jaybird 3.1 (but might get
into Jaybird 3.0).

Some of the major changes include a new Type 4 (wire protocol)
implementation to be able to support new features in the wire protocols
(especially for Firebird 3*), and probably also in the Type 2 (native)
implementation. The behavior and compatibility of Jaybird and the
interpretation of the JDBC specification might (will) also change for
some cases and I think a new major version is needed to indicate this,
as I expect that this new version will not be a drop-in replacement in
all cases.

There is no date set for the release of Jaybird 3.0, work is progressing
but slowly and the changes made for the new wire protocol implementation
will cascade through the entire driver once I replace the existing
implementation.

Once the new wire protocol implementation is in place I will start
releasing snapshots for testing.

Development of Jaybird 2.2.x will continue at least until the release of
Jaybird 3.0. If necessary new features will be implemented and bugs will
continue to be fixed. For example Firebird 3 BOOLEAN type and (basic)
Java 8/JDBC 4.2 support will be added in Jaybird 2.2.4.

I have planned to release Jaybird 2.2.4 at the end of this month.

*: Actual implementation for the Firebird 3 authentication and
encryption protocol (SRP) is not yet planned for Jaybird 3.0.

Upscene Productions is excited to officially release FB TraceManager V3.0.2!

Ever wondered if garbage collection might be guilty when one and the same statement shows dramatic different execution time on the same data volume? We have the answer.

This release exposes user-friendly Firebird Garbage Collection information at statement-level in parsed trace data and in the per-database monitoring tables integration.

More information on V3.0.2 is available here:
http://www.upscene.com/displaynews.php?item=20131025

Don’t forget our 15% autumn discount: HERFST13

More information on the product is available in the FB TraceManager section on our website, including an edition comparison sheet, webcasts etc.:
http://www.upscene.com/go/?go=fbtm

Firebird package for Go is updated . Does not currently conform to database/sql/driver interfaces.

There are quite a few changes in the master branch and the author (Brent Rowlan) is quite happy with it’s progress.