Firebird related news
From Firebird Foundation blog:
Broadview Software, of Toronto, Canada, upgrades its sponsorship from Gold to Platinum. Thanks to Sean Leyne and the Broadview management, which also provides hosting for all of the Firebird Project’s Internet web, Tracker, database, mail and list services.
Jiri wrote on his blog :The conference is about to start. I’ll write here more and more from it, read it top to bottom.
We are very pleased to announce the availability of the phpBB “Fast and Furrious” 3.0.6 package. This release fixes numerous bugs, introduces some major features, as well as improves stability and performance.
Firebird related changes:
Changed minimum requirement for Firebird DBMS from 2.0+ to 2.1+.
ps: i like the new ACM (Cache) plugins for APC , XCache
The cache system provides an API for caching frequently used data, it provides an interface for user code to cache data and an interface for the DBAL to cache query results.
Hi,
dbExpress Driver for Firebird version 21 has released. Here are the
fix:
4.1.2007.21 / 4.1.2009.21 / 4.1.2010.21 Release on 19 Nov 2009
1. Memory leak occurs when Firebird connection is lost.
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Best Regards,
Chau, Chee-Yang
With Libdbi – a database independent abstraction layer written in C , you can see the new tests status with latest code from cvs
Some network maintenance operations need to be performed
I tried build FirebirdClient in Silverlight environment and I failed. I expected to fail after some attempts with modifications and using only subset of features like i.e for Compact Framework, but this was really fast. Silverlight is only subset of .NET Framework. And one crucial part is not there, it’s System.Data stuff and without it you can drop major part of any ADO.NET provider’s code.
For those you wanted to test :
Fat Binaries of Firebird V2.1.3 for MacOSX 10.5+ (intel 32/64bit) are available for
download and testing.
http://ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_download_test
Here is the message on Firebird-devel list about the branch freezing
Qt 4.5.3 is now available. 4.5.3 is a patch level release providing various bug-fixes over the 4.5.2 release that we issued in late-June.
You can see the full changelog here
with the related Firebird fix (Database Drivers section)
– Fixed ::record for dialect 3 named tables in interbase/firebird.
