Category: General news

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.

When creating a GitHub account, we suggest to add your SourceForge’s
email (username@users.sourceforge.net) as a secondary one to associate
your past contributions with your account.

Jaybird 2.2.10 has been released, see https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/jaybird/releases/tag/v2.2.10 … for details

Firebird Project will be moving its repositories to GitHub

Dimitry Yemanov wrote on Firebird-Devel list:

I’m asking present contributors to create accounts there. If anyone
(including past contributors) wants your past commits to be
automatically linked to your GitHub account and be shown in the
statistics, please report your account name in this thread, or make sure
that your *.users.sourceforge.net email is added as a secondary one at
GitHub.

For the moment there is already a github mirror for sourceforge firebird core
https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/core

New version released with small fix : helper typo #63

https://rubygems.org/gems/activerecord-fb-adapter/versions/1.0.3

FDB Python driver for Firebird v1.5.1 is available for download.
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb

Changelog for Version 1.5.1

• New connect() parameters: no_gc, no_db_triggers and no_linger.
• Direct support for with statement (PEP8) in Connection class.

Lazarus 1.6 has been released. This is the first release which uses FPC 3.0.

http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?topic=31575