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Firebird related news
ADO.NET provider 5.10.0.0 for Firebird is ready
Jaybird 3.0.2 released
The Firebird JDBC team is happy to announce the release of Jaybird 3.0.2.
Jaybird 3.0.2 contains the following fixes and changes:
- Fixed: Specifying an unknown Java character set in connection property
charSetorlocalEncodingwas handled as if no connection character set had been specified, now we throw an exception that the character set is unknown. (JDBC-498) - Changed: Specifying a connection character set is no longer required, and will now default to
NONEagain, if system propertyorg.firebirdsql.jdbc.defaultConnectionEncodingis not specified. (JDBC-502)
See the Jaybird 3.0.2 release notes for more information. Jaybird 3.0.2 can be downloaded from the JDBC Driver page.
firebird-2.5.7.27050.0-1.el6 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 6
Firebird update to 2.5.7 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 6 with Security fix for CVE-2017-6369
Documentation crowdfunding: goal accomplished!
With the addition of the amount donated by the attendees of the 14th Firebird Developers Day, the crowdfunding campaign for the translation of the Firebird Developers Guide, from Russian to English, was finally accomplished! Thanks to everyone who donated!
firebird3.0 3.0.2.32703.ds4-9 package Migrated to Debian testing
FYI: The status of the firebird3.0 source package
in Debian’s testing distribution has changed.
Previous version: 3.0.2.32703.ds4-4
Current version: 3.0.2.32703.ds4-9
Here is the debian changelog
Report of the 14th Firebird Developers Day
The 14th Firebird Developers Day was held in the city of Piracicaba — SP — Brazil, in July, 29 2017, at Espaço Beira Rio. The conference is organized by FireBase, and had the presence of 300 attendees coming from dozens of cities and different states of Brazil.
The report (in English and Portuguese) with photos is now online.
Database .NET v22.5 released
Database .NET 22.5 is an innovative, powerful and intuitive multiple database management tool.
(Full support for Firebird 1.5~4.0+)
- Added Highlighting Groups of Cells
- Added Using \r\n as record separator by Exporting and Importing delimited text files
- Added automatically reset sequences after truncating/migrating the table (FB3)
- Added Enabling and Disabling indexes (FB)
- Added Rebuilding indexes (FB)
- Fixed missing declaration of DEFAULT in CREATE statement (FB)
- Fixed missing settings of IDENTITY in Table Designer (FB)
- dbMigration .NET has been updated to v6
- …and more
Getting closer to the “v1” with external procedures in Firebird in .NET ( FbNetExternalEngine)
Jiří Činčura is getting closer to Version 1 for Firebird External engine written in C# 7
Firebird inside Firebird in DotNet External Engine (FbNetExternalEngine)
You can load any .NET code in FbNetExternalEngine also as Proof Of Concept you can also
load Firebird Embedded inside that in server (Firebird inside Firebird in DotNet External Engine).