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Sourceforge Community Choice Project of the Month for May is Firebird

The voters have spoken! Your "Community Choice" Project of the Month for May is… Firebird! https://t.co/wirK9SId2Z #potm #opensource #FOSS #Firebird

— SourceForge (@sourceforge) May 1, 2018

FDB Python driver for Firebird v2.0 is available for download.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb

IMPORTANT: This is initial release of new “SweetBitter” driver generation.

During this (v2) generation FDB driver will undergo a transition from
development centered around Python 2.7 / Firebird 2.x to development
centered around Python 3 / Firebird 3. There are some backward
incompatible changes between v2 and v1 generation, and you may expect
some also between individual releases of second generation. To soften
this bitter pill, the second generation will have new functionality,
enhancements and optimalizations gradually added into each public release.

The second generation is also the last one that will directly support
Python 2.7 and will be tested with Firebird 2.

The plan is to move forward with v3 generation (Python 3/Firebird 3+) as
soon as v2 code base will become mature.

What’s new:

* Hooks.
* New modules for parsing Firebird trace & audit logs (fdb.trace), gstat
output (fdb.gstat) and server log (fdb.log)
* Added fdb.utils.ObjectList class for improved object collection
manipulation.
* Modules monitor and schema now use new fdb.utils.ObjectList for
collections of information objects.
* Methods fdb.Connection.database_info() and
fdb.Transaction.transaction_info() now distinguish between text and
binary strings with result_type code.
* Significant changes to documentation.
* Reworked Visitor Pattern support in schema module, added classes
fdb.utils.Visitable and fdb.utils.Visitor.
* …and more (including bug fixes).

Read more at http://fdb.readthedocs.io/en/v2.0/

IBPhoenix now have a Firebird 3.x encryption plugin available for MacOSX.

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.

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

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.

This release fixes a few issues :

• Update schema.py from django 1.9 #64
• Update operations.py #65
• Removed unused DatabaseFeatures.can_introspect_max_length. #67
• Dropped support for Python 2.6, 3.2, 3.3