Category: General news

PyFirebirdSql 1.0.0 is released with code refactoring , documentation updates.

LibreOffice 5.3 will be announced at the end of January 2017, with a large number of new features which are summarized on the release notes page: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.3.

In order to find, report and triage bugs, the LibreOffice QA team is organizing a third bug hunting session on Friday, December 9, and Saturday, December 10, 2016.

Here is Firebird 3.0 upgrade notice in LibreOffice Base 5.3.

Also detailed migration notes for older ODB files are in the Wiki.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.1.0. This release is the first point release in the 7.x series.

Lots of missing features & big bugs were fixed recently .
All of the blockers that were initially mentioned on tracking bug are now fixed.

Lionel mentioned that he added a few more blockers that needs to be fixed until Firebird will be switched by default in LibreOffice Base :

I went over
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=firebird

and added a few open bugs to the blocker bug

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/51780

based on their description (and NEW instead of UNCONFIRMED status)
only, without reading the bug log in great detail.

Tamás Bunth (Wastack) agreed that 6 months time frame is more than enough to fix bugs that will appear

I agree, it would be reasonable to wait a half year. Until that we can
fix the already found and the upcoming bugs, solve the backward
incompatibility. Even if those can be solved quickly we can upgrade to
the c++ API.

Another issue is importing old hsqldb databases without java installed

It requires making a read-only parser for the HSQLDB “cached” table
data format in another language than Java. Most definitely possible,
the format may even be better documented than “read the source code”.

We are welcome to join, and write in English for Firebird Advent Calendar

http://qiita.com/advent-calendar/2016/firebird

Notice via Twitter

FirebirdWebAdmin Version 3.4.0 (27.11.2016) is released with the following changes:

[enhancement] Published on npm
[enhancement] Introduce CHANGELOG.md
[enhancement] Rename README to README.md (alse updated structure, markdown, info badges)
[enhancement] Update translations
[bugfix] Update export.inc.php (.csv)
[bugfix] Suffixes GDB etc should be off by default
[enhancement] Review Exceptions & indices from Accessories.

Meiji Kimura and Hajime Nakagami created Firebird Advent Calendar 2016 , there Firebird Japanese community will post articles in each day of Advent period.
You can check for articles from the previous year for inspiration.

New Flamerobin snapshot flamerobin-0.9.3.c75f861 for Windows is available (x86)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/flamerobin/files/flamerobin-snapshots/0.9.x/

You will need Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 (x86)

https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=48145

You can check Git log for code changes

https://github.com/mariuz/flamerobin/commits/master

Enjoy, and please be sure to report any bugs, regressions or suggestions on flamerobin-devel list or in the git bug tracker

Firebird 3 introduces the boolean datatype. See the Firebird 3 release notes, BOOLEAN data type.
Now you can test it in flamerobin snapshot
Thanks to this pull request on github 🙂

This is a small fix release (Thanks to @ittaskeu) .