Category: General news

Node 5.1.0 has been released. Here is the list of changes.

There is a github mirror where you can send pull requests for flamerobin

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

git clone https://github.com/mariuz/flamerobin.git

Dear members,

we have this month a Committee meeting (http://web.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=ffoundation&sub=committee&id=agenda), and the major point is about our financial situation.

The Foundation is today in a situation where our expenses are larger than our incomes, so the situation can’t stay as it is.

The Admin team will be informed about this situation and we will see with the team if some expenses can be cut. But expenses are grants, and if we want that Firebird 3.0 final release be a successful product, we need resources for code, documentation and tests.

We appreciate the financial effort that you are doing as members and sponsors.

Having more members would certainly help us to solve are financial situation, so I’m asking you to contact your customers with a view to sponsoring or corporate membership.

Another point that I would like you to consider is to raising your level as member.
Today we have 216 members, 121 associate, 15 honorary, 66 voting and 14 sponsors.

Please consider to upgrade your level from Associate to Voting, and from Voting to Bronze sponsor.
Roughly, we need to an incomes increase of 25000 USD per year, this can be reach if 1/3 of the members upgrade their level from  Associate to Voting, and from Voting to Bronze sponsor.

Thanks for your continued support, I wish you all the best for your business, with Firebird on your side.

Vlad updated Firebird Sphinx patch for version 2.2.x.
Soon it will be merged upstream in the Sphinx Github tree.

Jason announced the newest release of IB Objects to all download areas.
For registered users, please go to http://community.ibobjects.com and update your annual subscription if necessary. Thanks to all who continue to support IB Objects!

You can try Evaluation Kit on Lazarus/Delphi IDE
http://www.ibobjects.com/ibodownload.html

Here is an excerpt from the release notes about what has been done since the last release.

www.ibobjects.com/ReleaseNotes.htm

New Firebird driver release fixes : (PYFB-58) Severe performance loss and minor memory leak.

The Firebird Docs team is calling for people who are fluent in both English and Firebird’s SQL to assist with reviewing the English text of the Firebird 2.5 Language Reference manual. Of 10 chapters and 8 Appendices, 4.5 chapters are still untouched by reviewers.  It would be good to have the reviewing done to coordinate with the forthcoming 2.5.5 release but correctness takes priority.

Still to do are:  half of the DDL chapter, DML, PSQL, Functions and Variables, Transactions.

If you feel able to help with the review, please subscribe to the [firebird-docs] list here and make yourself and your preferred topics known.

In this 3.0.1 release

Dumitru Condrea contributed UI improvements to FirebirdWebAdmin : replaced the png maximize/minimize icons with glyphicons

Firebird Converter 1.0.3 is now released with Support for Global temporary tables (GTT)

https://github.com/tomneko/fbconverter/releases/tag/R_1_0_3