#Firebird2.1 package is updated in #Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat
The next release of Ubuntu will have an updated package for firebird with one hard to detect bug fixed (the Classic install one)
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Firebird related news
#MindTheBird materials are available in #Romanian now
Thanks to the Firebird Romanian Community (Doru, Florin …)
You can download it from the left list of links from the #mindthebird campaign
Firebird is 29th most active (all time) #SourceForge / #Geeknet project.
Saw it on Adriano’s tweet , and here is the link
Happy Birthday!
Free tool for MindTheBird participants!
Hello All,
Good news for all MindTheBird participants – Nucleon Software http://www.nucleonsoftware.com offers free license of there “Database Master” software for all participants of MindTheBird.
If you would like to get such license, please send to free at mindthebird.com email with the following information: “FirstName”, “LastName”, E-Mail, optionally Company name, and get free license of DatabaseMaster (they will be sent in 2-3 work days).
We encourage all tools vendor to run similar programs for MindTheBird participants, and, of course, we ask everyone to join MindTheBird! to support Firebird and to get benefits and prizes.
To join MindTheBird! you just need to put one of MindTheBird! banners or presentations (http://www.mindthebird.com/downloadmtb.html) to your web-site or blog, link it to www.mindthebird.com or to www.firebirdsql.org and send us link to this page for verification.
Best regards,
MindTheBird Team
Firebird-Django driver Branch created compatible with #Django 1.2 , tests are promising
David Elias created new branch for Django 1.2 and Maximiliano Robaina tested it , there is still work left to do but the results are good
ANN: dbExpress Driver for Firebird version 26 released
Hi,
dbExpress Driver for Firebird version 26 has released. Here are the
fix:
4.1.2007.26 / 4.1.2009.26 / 4.1.2010.26 Release on 23 Jun 2010
1. Fixed retrieve SQL View names if TSQLConnection.TableScope include tsView when invoke TSQLConnection.GetTableNames
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Best Regards,
Chau, Chee-Yang
ANN: dbExpress Driver for Firebird version 25 released
Hi,
dbExpress Driver for Firebird version 24 has released. Here are the
fix:
4.1.2007.25 / 4.1.2009.25 / 4.1.2010.25 Release on 16 Jun 2010
1. Add data type coercion for bytes array to CHAR and VARCHAR
column
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Best Regards,
Chau, Chee-Yang
Firebird 2.5 RC3 to be released soon
Some fixes for known problems will be commited next week. After that it will be submitted to QA tests, so probably we will have RC3 released at end of June.
Firebird and Entity Framework 4 – stage completed
.NET provider for Firebird now fully supports all the new features in Entity Framework 4.