Firebird related news
Sorry, this is just for Brazilians…
O site do 14º Firebird Developers Day está no ar, e as inscrições estão abertas! A grade de palestras está quase completa, e pode ser vista diretamente no site. Lembrando que o valor da inscrição aumenta com a proximidade do evento, então inscreva-se o quanto antes e economize!
www.FirebirdDevelopersDay.com.br
Good news from Mark Rotteveel: Jaybird will have wire encryption soon (if you use the pure java wire protocol)
With help of https://t.co/en62y5iEba (and the earlier work by @hajime_nakagami in Jaybird) I think I managed to enable encryption
— Mark Rotteveel (@Avalanche1979) May 28, 2017
You can use the following docker images based on Debian Jessie
InterBase was created in 1985: it was the first commercial multi-versioning database. In the end of 1999, Borland decided to close InterBase development and published its source codes under InterBase Public License. This code was copied (it is permitted by the license), and Firebird was born – from the version 1.0 Firebird is a production-ready database, based on previous decades of InterBase development.
At the end of 2000, Borland turned back to the closed source and commercial licenses (exactly as it was earlier) with InterBase and started development of 6.5.
Firebird 1.0 was released in 2002, with many bugfixes and extensions of DDL and DML. The active Firebird development continued after 1.0, and in 2004 the second major version of Firebird (v.1.5) was released. Borland at that time also has introduced new versions (7.0 and 7.1). Firebird 1.5 and InterBase 7.0 was incompatible both by database format (ODS) and core functionality. The migration from InterBase to Firebird and back with backup/restore is impossible since Firebird 2.0 and InterBase 7.0.
Since then, the difference between Firebird and InterBase became bigger.
Check the full article from IBSurgeon, and see the currently diferences between Interbase and Firebird.
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Dorin Marcoci created a pull request for PDO Firebird driver and he is looking for testers for Boolean data type support (Firebird 3.0)
#PHP #PDO #Firebird: Boolean data type support: https://t.co/wEWMVcHLVV Testers are welcome!
— Dorin Marcoci (@marcodorin) May 13, 2017
FSharp SQLProvider adds support for Firebird via this Github Pull Request:
PR out of nowhere adds @firebirdsql support to the #fsharp #sqlprovider! https://t.co/GJ7Imfm2El
— Ross McKinlay (@pezi_pink) May 10, 2017
Firebird 3 was released almost a year ago and it has already got two minor releases. But there is still no official packages for MacOS. So this post is about my humble attempt to build it on MacOs from source code. Most of the instructions are taken from Paul Beach’s Firebird Devel list post or from his blog.
Read full article here.
We are happy to announce the release of Jaybird 3.0.0.
Jaybird 3.0 is a big change from Jaybird 2.2 and earlier. The entire low-level implementation has been rewritten to be able to support protocol improvements in newer Firebird versions. We have also made changes with a stricter interpretation of the JDBC requirements, and removed some parts that were either obsolete or not functioning correctly.
Most notable changes in Jaybird 3:
java.time support, and more optional methods implemented).dll/.so is no longer needed)And a large number of smaller bug fixes, improvements, and changes.
We recommend that you do not consider Jaybird 3.0 a drop-in replacement for Jaybird 2.2, and study the release notes carefully. Test your application with Jaybird 3.0 before using it in production.
Jaybird 3.0 supports Firebird 2.0 and higher, on Java 7, 8 and 9. Basic Java 9 compatibility is provided through the Java 8 version of the driver.
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