Category: General news

Devrace announce FIBPlus version 6.8 with a new TpFIBScripter component and CSMonitor support. Version 6.8 has 9 enhancements and 8 bug fixes.

You can download FIBPlus trial version for Delphi and C++ Builder from Devrace website.

Devrace also remind about 30-50% discount for all customers. Please contact our online support to get them.

If the year after purchasing is not over yet, the upgrade to FIBPlus 6.8 is for free!

the web server [ firebirdsql.org] and the tracker are down. Both machines are in a
location that has no electricity supply at the moment. As it is a
holiday weekend in Canada, we could be without them for a couple more days.

best regards
Pavel Cisar
IBPhoenix

[ED so for the moment use alternate sites like http://ibphoenix.com/ or sf.net for downloads]

If you read the post about the Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities, I think you would be interested in this post from Svein Erling Tysvaer, in Firebird Support list:

Looking at http://risesecurity.org/blog/entry/3/ indicates that some of the issues affects Firebird, but that they’ve been corrected in the latest release:

We contacted both Borland/CodeGear and Firebird developers about these vulnerabilities. After failed attempts to find an email address to report security issues in their products, we tried their bug tracking systems. Borland/CodeGear asked us to send information to their support email address, but we didn’t get any further responses. Firebird developers didn’t answer to our reports either, but they corrected these vulnerabilities in the latest version of Firebird.

More details can be found at http://risesecurity.org/advisory/RISE-2007003/

Seems like Firebird still prioritise fixing errors to a greater extent han InterBase.

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FIB for Lazarus (FIBL) is improved version of FreeIBComponents for FreePascal/FCL. The aim of this project is to provide high quality components library to access Firebird server for Lazarus IDE.

Here you can download the new version

Posted by Dimitrios Ioannidis in FB-General list:

I would like to show you how hard the Core Developers are working (as if you don’t know that already … ).

A little graph for you ….
http://tinyurl.com/yt5pgl

Firebird Relational Database Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
http://risesecurity.org/advisory/RISE-2007003/
Published: October 3, 2007

The following flash demo shows you how easy it is to integrate an audit trail in your Firebird database and how fast you can build up a hot-standby database environment with the IB LogManager product family. It’s all done in 17 minutes.

Check it out here:
http://www.iblogmanager.com/download/demos/iblm/iblm_hotstandby.htm

From the Firebird Foundation blog:

 Today we received a nice cheque from David Culbertson, of CounterWorks Inc., Colorado, U.S.A., to renew the company’s silver sponsorship for a year. Thank you, CounterWorks!

Let me remind that anyone can contribute with the Foundation (with any value) and help the project to move faster and strongly.