Firebird related news
With the new official FB site, there is also a new option to allow people to subscribe to the official Firebird newsletter, and keep up to date with official news from the Firebird team. You can easily subscribe using the appropriate widget at the sidebar of the mainpage.
We are continuing to actively add new functionality of Firebird 3 DBMS to IBProvider.
Let us remind you that already 2 months ago we added support of BOOLEAN data type from Firebird 3. In the new version of IBProvider Professional, we added support of PACKAGE instruction.
Now you can put in order a bulk of database procedures and functions and group them by sense into individual modules (PACKAGE). This arrangement will substantially simplify understanding and maintenance of SQL code.
Ream more about Firebird 3 access improvements.
Visit new http://firebirdsql.org and and enjoy new abilities: subscribe to Newsletter, Twitter, Facebook
Please report any missings , wishes to firebird-website list or rush the bugs in the firebird tracker (The WEB component)
ps:This one of the steps completed into attracting more developers on using Firebird and looking more modern and trendy
Also if you find some some pages from the old site that are not integrated yet , here is the url http://web.firebirdsql.org/
I have updated the natty package for Firebird 2.5 in the stable ppa with latest release from debian
with one major fix taken from svn branch : the loading of ICU
The next release Oniric will include this fix by default
From Alexey Kovyazin:
Hello All,
Current data transfer from old site to the new site is almost complete. There are following areas in process:
- In Development – QA, Documentations for developers and .NET/Python drivers
- Old news – we will transfer old news for a while, now at 2009-2008 level.
- In About Firebird -> Features description, is in progress
- Grantee reports from old years
- Some minor content adjustments
Also we need to manage setup for daily snapshot uploads.
For regular site updates, like adding news or new FF members/sponsors, dedicated person from DQTeam will manage data adding/changing, until other site contributors will learn how to use CMS.
Actual transfer and redevelopment is almost over, now web-site redevelopment is about “intellectual” re-writing and new content creatiion.
Such process will be run constantly, and there will be always gap between ideal site and good-enough site.
I ask everyone to join the action now, look through the site thoroughly, and then provide actual help in order to jump over gap and switch to the new site in the next few days, and then go to the Phase 2 – improvements and extensions.
Old site will be live for a while, of course, so no content will be missed.Regards,
Alexey Kovyazin
This article will describe the development of a fairly large (over 4,000 users) one-man software business, selling an application developed with PowerBuilder and Firebird
New version of FBDataGuard 2.5 for Linux is available. Update introduces enhanced support for CentOS, Suse, Debian and Debian-derived Linux distributives.
At first run FBDataGuard automatically discovers installed Firebird and performs quick investigation of the system and, if something wrong found, it reports about the problem.
Changes are reflected in the new version of FBDataGuard User Guide (PDF is available).
Full (commercial) version of FBDataGuard includes Control Center – Windows GUI tool with advanced monitoring and recovery capabilities.
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dbExpress Driver for Firebird version 32 has released. Here are the fix:
4.1.2011.33 Release on 12 May 2011
Download here.
