Category: General news
Firebird related news
Firebird 5.0.0 for QNAP NAS
Firebird 5.0.0 for Intel QNAP NAS can be downloaded via the follow link
New issue of EmberWings magazine published
EmberWings is a quarterly PDF magazine about Firebird published by IBPhoenix.
Beyond technical articles, instructions and tips, it contains interviews with noteworthy individuals, an overview of Firebird’s development, information from the Firebird community, evaluations of compelling products, and a touch of thematic humor. All of this presented in a streamlined format with an aesthetically pleasing print-friendly layout.
The magazine is available in IBPhoenix store for free on a pay-what-you-want basis, with half of the proceeds going to the Firebird Foundation. The remaining half is used to finance the publication of the magazine.
This issue has 70 pages.
Real-time Firebird – Monitor for Firebird – Server 2.5 / 3.0 / 4.0 / 5.0
We are pleased to present the new version 2 of the Firebird Monitor with “Trace and Audit”.
We are currently offering a 10% discount on the purchase of a license until the end of June 2024. The coupon code is “Discount10”.
With “Trace and Audit”, they are able to record and evaluate every single event in the database.
Visit our homepage and download the demo version.
Perl extension DBD::Firebird version 1.38 is released
Perl extension DBD::Firebird version 1.38 is released with quite a few changes if you compare with previous announcement , here are a few from the ChangeLog: add support for Firebird’s BOOLEAN data type , add support for disabling database-level triggers
Revision history for Perl extension DBD::Firebird. 1.38 [2024-05-21] * fix syntax error boolean fall back implementation (thanks to Robert Scheck) * add support for disabling database-level triggers (gh#53) 1.37 [2024-05-20] * fall back to sv_setiv when sv_setbool is not available (gh#58) 1.36 [2024-05-19] * fix problems with Perl before 5.36 and Firebird before 3.0 (gh#56 and gh#57) 1.35 [2024-05-15] * ib2sql_type: ignore nullability bit * map Firebird's 64-bit integer type to SQL_BIGINT * add support for Firebird's BOOLEAN data type * fix a couple of compiler warnings
Firebird SQL Client Library for Kotlin Multiplatform
This is a Kotlin Multiplatform project for working with a Firebird SQL database.
Supported systems are JVM, Android and Kotlin Native.
Firebird 5 is the version targeted in this library, it should work with earlier versions but this has not been tested.
Release of IBProvider v5.37
We are glad to present a new release of IBProvider — v5.37. This update contains a lot of internal changes and improvements. All the changes have been tested more than one time, so this release is ready for use in your projects. Please update your copy of IBProvider with this version. If you work with Firebird, please use «fb.direct» mode. Thanks.
https://www.ibprovider.com/eng/news/n_240518.html
Build of error message in built-in Firebird client
- The current release of IBProvider adds the new initialization property ctype_system that allows to point a codepage of operation system where a connected database server is working. This information will help IBProvider process the DBMS system errors
- Provider uses a connection charset for translating server error messages into UNICODE
Work with ICU
- ICU 63.1 (FB4). A suppression of translation error between code pages is disabled now (FB:CORE-8108)
- A processing of ucnv_open function return code is corrected
Common changes
- vc16 binaries are compiled with C++20
- vc15 binaries use a built-in thread pool based on the source code of the external thread pool of vc16/vc17 assemblies (source code unification)
- The information content of the error message “unsupported database server version” is improved
- The internal instrumental C++ library was refactored
With Best Regards, IBProvider Team.
RedExpert 2024.04 has been released
Read about changes and download at: https://reddatabase.ru/en/downloads/redexpert/2024.04
Discuss RedExpert at https://t.me/redexpert_en
The Ballad for the Firebird Developers
Song for all Firebird developers from the Firebird user community.
EmberWings Magazine about Firebird
EmberWings is a new quarterly PDF magazine about Firebird published by IBPhoenix.
Beyond technical articles, instructions and tips, it contains interviews with noteworthy individuals, an overview of Firebird’s development, information from the Firebird community, evaluations of compelling products, and a touch of thematic humor. All of this presented in a streamlined format with an aesthetically pleasing print-friendly layout.
The magazine is available in IBPhoenix store for free on a pay-what-you-want basis, with half of the proceeds going to the Firebird Foundation. The remaining half is used to finance the publication of the magazine.