Firebird related news
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
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 22.5 is an innovative, powerful and intuitive multiple database management tool.
(Full support for Firebird 1.5~4.0+)
Jiří Činčura is getting closer to Version 1 for Firebird External engine written in C# 7
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).
There is an interesting discussion on firebird-devel about changing the hash function in Firebird (related to CORE-4436)
A beta version of a 64bit Firebird 3.0.3 for MacOSX is now available as a download
http://www.ibphoenix.com/download/firebird/30
for those of you who might be interested in trying it.
As you know, recently several crypto viruses have attacked many companies – most well-known are Wannacry and Petya. Usually, as reported by many companies, it is necessary to pay a ransom, or, in the case of Petya, all encrypted files will be lost.
Read how we can defeat Petya:
https://ib-aid.com/en/articles/fighting-petya-our-experience-with-retrieving-data-from-the-firebird-database-files-encrypted-by-ransomware-crypto-viruses/
Documentation Funding 2017 Reached more than 3000$ of the 5000$ Goal , We need more help to reach the target https://www.firebirdsql.org/en/doc-funding-2017/
Funding Goal
We have a beta version of an installable 64bit Firebird 3.0.3 for MacOSX. It runs by default as SuperServer currently (as it should) with no simple way to switch to Classic/SuperClassic (yet). If any one wants a copy to download, install and test – please send Paul Beach an email.
