Firebird 2.0.3 RPMs for Fedora 8
Arkady Shejn have updated his repository for upcoming Fedora 8 release.
Category: General news
Firebird related news
Free Firebird PHP Generator 7.10 released
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SQL Maestro Group is happy to announce the release of Firebird PHP Generator 7.10, freeware Firebird GUI frontend that allows you to generate high-quality Firebird PHP scripts for the selected tables, views and queries for the further working with these objects through the web. |
New version features:
- BLOB fields now can be represented as pictures. It is also possible to add, edit, and delete the images directly from the generated web application.
- Starting with this version our software allows you to create web-pages with hyperlinks.
- Firebird PHP Generator now supports creation of look up menus based on a custom value list.
- The wizard window becomes resizable. Also it can be maximized or minimized.
There are also some other new features. Full press-release is available here:
http://www.sqlmaestro.com/news/company/4685/.
Where Firebird Foundation Funds go?
From the FF blog:
We are currently funding 9 regular grant allocations. Where there are links, you can go and read the developer’s latest report.
- Development & Coordination (Dmitry Yemanov)
- Code Scrutineering (Claudio Valderrama)
- International Language Support, DSQL & Code Scrutineering (Adriano dos Santos Fernandes)
- Security/Code Devel. (Alex Peshkoff)
- QA & Testing (Pavel Cisar)
- QA Testing (Philippe Makowski)
- Core Development (Vlad Horsun)
- .NET Provider (Carlos Guzmán Álvarez)
- Foundation Administration (Helen Borrie)
FIBPlus version 6.8 is available for download
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!
perl one-liner: get column number
one blog with firebird mention and some tips to split csv files
www.firebirdsql.org and tracker down for a few days
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]
Multiple Buffer Overflow problem
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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FIBL 0.7.2 released
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
Solving issues
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
Firebird Relational Database Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
http://risesecurity.org/advisory/RISE-2007003/
Published: October 3, 2007