IBPhoenix now have a Firebird 3.x encryption plugin available for MacOSX.
IBPhoenix now have a Firebird 3.x encryption plugin available for MacOSX.
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Firebird related news
Read the new white paper “Authentication in Firebird 3” from IBPhoenix
Read the new white paper “Authentication in Firebird” from IBPhoenix: Developments introduced in Firebird 3 provide many options for authenticating users attempting to attach to a database. No longer is authentication restricted to a single method: the methods available are determined by the plug-in authentication modules configured in the global and/or database config files.
Also, there are many interesting articles in Documentation area of IBPhoenix website.
Django-firebird 1.10 has been released. Work for 1.11 has started in master branch
The stable version corresponds with django 1.10.x and lives into stable/1.10.x branch. The current master branch of this repository is being developed under django 1.11.x
New version of Firebird Encryption Plugin Framework: now with gbak support!
IBSurgeon is glad to announce the availability of the new version of Encryption Plugin Framework for Firebird: the fast and easy way to add transparent and strong (AES256) encryption for Firebird databases.
The new version includes the following features:
- Pre-built binaries for Firebird 3.0.3: Windows 32/64 and Linux 32/64
- gbak.exe with encryption of databases and backups.
- Full sources included
- Unlimited license for redistribution with all business applications of your company
- Detailed examples of the implementation in Delphi, PHP, etc
- Implementation support – our engineers will help you to implement and integrate encryption
- (Optional) SQL development tool with the encryption support
Download and try IBSurgeon’s Encryption Plugin for Firebird now!
New German Firebird forum
From firebirdsql.org:
We are glad to announce the new Firebird Forum for German-speaking developers: www.firebirdforum.de, with moderator Martin Koeditz, the editor of German edition of Firebird Language Reference. Fill free to register and meet with other Firebird developers!
Final steps of LibreOffice HSQLDB to FirebirdSQL database migration
Bunth Tamás wrote about the last step on LibreOffice database migration :
It is my third post about implementing HSQL migration inside odb documents in connection with a TDF tender. The previous posts were about creating the schema import, and the import of binary data.
Today I will write about the final steps which has to be made in order to
toggle off experimental feature from Firebird and use HSQLDB migration by default. This process also involves the creation of some unit tests, and
modifying some others.
django-firebird 1.9.1 is released
Yii2-Firebird updated in git master with Yii2 2.0.15 compatibility
Yii2-Firebird updated in git master with Yii2 2.0.15 compatibility : dev-master on packagist.org
A stable version of ZeosLib 7.2.4 has been released
The Zeos Team is proud to announce the availability of Zeos 7.2.4 as a stable release. This is the newest stable version of Zeos. It deprecates Zeos 7.1, which will not be supported anymore. Zeos 7.2 has seen tons of bugfixes and improvements. We urge all people still using older versions of Zeos to upgrade. If you have any problems with Zeos 7.2, please get in contact with us on the forums or on the bugtracker.
For an overview of the changes in Zeos 7.2 see the release notes.
FibPlus Library Github repository
This repository is an attempt to keep alive one of the best suite of components that seems to be abandoned by Devrace, without pretending to any copyrights. Initial source code was taken from public forums.
The goal of this project is to collect patches, fix bugs, adjust code to latest versions of Delphi, improve functionality by adding new features.