PHP 7.1.7 Released
The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.1.7. This is a security release with several bug fixes included. All PHP 7.1 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
Category: General news
Firebird related news
Firebird support for Decfloat will be enabled in Firebird 4.0
Firebird support for Decfloat will be enabled in Firebird 4.0 (Can be tested with latest snapshots)
Decfloat is a new SQL:2016 standard type introduced by IBM in DB2
[WARNING] Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading
Here is the Warning from Debian Developers :
This warning advisory is relevant for users of systems with the Intel
processors code-named “Skylake” and “Kaby Lake”. These are: the 6th and
7th generation Intel Core processors (desktop, embedded, mobile and
HEDT), their related server processors (such as Xeon v5 and Xeon v6), as
well as select Intel Pentium processor models.TL;DR: unfixed Skylake and Kaby Lake processors could, in some
situations, dangerously misbehave when hyper-threading is enabled.
Disable hyper-threading immediately in BIOS/UEFI to work around the
problem. Read this advisory for instructions about an Intel-provided
fix.
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Firebird 3.0.2.32703.ds4-4 landed in Debian testing (buster)
The status of the firebird3.0 source package
in Debian’s testing distribution has changed.
Previous version: 3.0.1.32609.ds4-14
Current version: 3.0.2.32703.ds4-4
IBObjects 5.9.3 Build 2631 is available
IBObjects 5.9.3 Build 2631 is available. For more information please see the Release Notes.
Debian 9 Stretch released with Firebird 3.0 in repository
Debian 9 Stretch is released with Firebird 3.0 in repository
Database .NET 22.2 and dbMigration .NET 5.8 released!
Database .NET 22.2 is an innovative, powerful and intuitive multiple database management tool. (Full support for Firebird 1.5~4.0+)
http://fishcodelib.com/Database.htm (Change Log 2017/06/19)
dbMigration .NET 5.8 is a simple, easy and intuitive multiple database migration and data synchronization tool, With it you can easily migrate schema and data to Firebird and vice versa.
http://fishcodelib.com/DBMigration.htm (Change Log 2017/06/19)
- Added support for Firebird 4 alpha (SQL SECURITY, GENERATED ALWAYS IDENTITY, INCREMENT BY..etc)
- Added managing and migrating different versions of Firebird with Embedded Server
- Added Grant Manager for Firebird 1.5
- Fixed support for Firebird 1.5.x
- Fixed connecting a remote and a embedded Firebird without installing a local Firebird server.
HQbird 2017R2
HQbird 2017R2 is a major upgrade of advanced Firebird distributive (versions 2.5 and 3.0) with high-availability, replication, optimization, monitoring and recovery tools. Please upgrade the previous version of HQbird with 2017R2 (this upgrade is free for all users of HQbird).
This release includes a lot of improvements in replication, monitoring, and optimization, as well as many bugfixes. Windows installer now supports an automatic upgrade of the existing HQbird installation, Linux support for auto-upgrade will be released later.
The main goal of HQbird 2017R2 is to provide administrators and developers of big Firebird databases with effective management, maintenance, recovery, and optimization tools, in order to keep databases always healthy and available.
More details about HQbird: https://ib-aid.com/hqbird
The pain of no documentation
Free software is suffering because coders don’t know how to write documentation
Interesting article (read it here). As much important as the “source code documentation” is the documentation for the users. Firebird suffered from the lack of official documentation for a long time. This is being fixed, and you can help right now, contributing to the newest doc crowdfunding from the Project.
Database .NET v22 released
Database .NET v22 is an innovative, powerful and intuitive multiple database management tool.
(Full support for Firebird 1.5~3.0+)
- Updated to FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient.dll 5.9.1.0
- Added support for Asynchronous connection open
- Added creating remote databases for Firebird
- Added preserving NULL values by Exporting and Importing delimited text files
- Added generating Delimited text files by Script Generator
- Fixed displaying Function objects for Firebird 1.5.x
- Many more improvements and bug fixes
- …and more