Category: General news

FDB Python driver for Firebird v1.6 is available for download.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb

This version fixes few bugs and adds enhanced support for database_info 
and transaction_info. Now you can get almost all information in more 
convenient way (using properties and functions).

Firebird Extension for Yii 2 has a few updates in repository :

Updated Yii2 version in composer

Fixed type for char

Fixed union with limit

Fixed QueryBuilder tests

Fixed InsertExpression test

For Laravel 5.2 support, please look at the 5.2-sup branch in the laravel-firebird repository

https://github.com/jacquestvanzuydam/laravel-firebird/tree/5.2-sup

For Laravel 5.2 support use:

composer require jacquestvanzuydam/laravel-firebird:dev-5.2-sup

Thanks to CyCJIeHok for the changes for Laravel 5.2

Maximiliano Robaina wrote on Django-Firebird group : This is the proposed development roadmap for django-firebird

1. django-firebird for django 1.7 is in beta 1 status and available from pypi. I’m testing it on a real system, if all works ok, I would like promote this version to stable on April 1st (Friday)

2. django-firebird with support for django 1.8, release candidate 1 on 2016-04-08

3. django-firebird with support for django 1.9, release candidate 1 on 2016-04-22

Of course, this is a tentative schedule, I’ll appreciate any feedback.

Maxi Robaina announced on twitter : Django-firebird development is back the github version is in beta stage with django 1.7.x support by now. All tests passed ok
Support for django 1.8 LTS will begin next week and then django 1.9. I think it will be a version by week.

v1.7.0 beta 1 Changelog

• Support for Django v1.7.x
• First implementation of new schema migration feature
• Role support #50
• manage.py dbshell fails on Linux #48
• Fixed Database introspection: get_indexes just return primary and unique keys #28
• Fixed Firebird backend doesn’t return views in introspection #27

https://github.com/maxirobaina/django-firebird

Nikolay Samofatov announced he is using NBACKUP for physical replication of the databases and with patches for Firebird 4.x and 3.x

There is a medium difficulty task for a c++ programmer in current GSOC 2016

The Firebird driver for LibreOffice was started, and is mostly functional, in a previous GSoC, but it needs finishing and polishing. The main remaining issue is that the firebird data format embedded in the .odb file is endianess-dependent. The idea is to switch to Firebird’s “archive” format that is not.

Required skills / knowledge
C++, SQL, Reading other’s code, capacity to work autonomously.
Difficulty
medium
Potential mentors
Lionel Elie Mamane, IRC: schoinobates, mail: lionel AT mamane DOT lu

Firebird 4.0 Roadmap and Checklist.

http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/planning-board/

Dimitry Yemanov announced :

The project repository was migrated to GitHub:
https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird

Please wait a few days for things to settle down, we need to update some
infrastructure. SVN repository is still accessible, but new
contributions are expected to be provided as pull requests at GitHub.

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