Category: General news
Firebird related news
Firebirdnews.org passing the limit of 400000 total visitors
So now we have more than 400000 total visitors, Thank you all humans and bots , Let’s work and spread the word further :add the link to your blogs and contribute back with articles, maybe translate articles in your binary language
Here is one example http://firebird-pl.blogspot.com/ (we will add it to the right side)
PHP 5.3.0 RC4 repository for centos, fedora
RPM of fourth Release Candidate of php 5.3.0 are available for Fedora 9, 10, 11 and EL 5 in the remi-test repository. If not already done, it’s really time to start the tests.
new php 5.2.10 firebird repository for centos released
RPM of the new version php 5.2.10 are available in fedora Rawhide repository and in remi repository for Fedora and Enterprise Linux ≥ 4 (RHEL, CentOS) with most of the extensions and firebird driver
the new package php-interbase (Fedora ≥ 9 and EL) provides the Firebird/Interbase extension and the Firebird/Interbase PDO driver.
PowerConsole 0.7.5 and Firebird Pack 0.9.1
Pave Cisar is happy to announce the public release of PowerConsole v0.7.5 and
Firebird Pack for PowerConsole v0.9.1.
New poll at FirebirdNews
We have a new poll running on the site. Vote now (look at the sidebar).
Tunnelling a Firebird Backup with SSH
SSH is a wonderful piece of software. I found (hum, Philippe, the CentOS package maintainer, president of the Firebird Foundation and member of the QA team of Firebird helped me to find) how to create a SSH tunnel through I can run a distant Firebird backup.
What is sort? Part 1 and 2 articles
Dmitry Kuzmenko wrote on his own blog
Inspired by discussion about sorting (PLAN SORT), did some simple tests. Right now I do not have “an article” about this, but want to show you some discovered facts : in Part one and Part two
Flamerobin 0.9.2 packages into Fedora Linux and epel repository
Flamerobin 0.9.2 packages are into Fedora (10 and 11) and into Epel (4 and 5)
They will be soon into repositories.
hopes it please Fedora, Centos and RHEL Flamerobin users.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/flamerobin
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/flamerobin
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Philippe Makowski
http://www.ibphoenix.com
Supporting users of Firebird
New IBProvider version with enhanced Firebird 2.5 support
New IBProvider Professional 3.0.0.7270 version has appeared.
Following changes were implemented:
- Commands cancellation support in Firebird 2.5 and Interbase 6.5.
- Support of new data type SQL_NULL in Firebird 2.5.
- Access to BLOB fields from ADOExpress (dbGo) bug was fixed.
- New implementation of result sets cache.
Detailed release description and code samples of the Firebird 2.5 implemented features available here: IBProvider RC4 3.0.0.7270