Category: General news

Firebird Project and the company IBSurgeon (IBase.ru) announced that Firebird SQL administrators and developers are invited to a free seminar on working with Big Firebird Databases. The workshop will be held  on October 21, 2015 in Moscow. To participate in the seminar is by invitation only – see Below. Brief seminar topics:

1. Backup of large databases.
2. Optimize performance in large databases.
3. An example of analyzing the structure of the production database of 1 terabyte in size.
4. Replication.
5. Scaling, clustering.

Details here: ibase.ru/firebirdtour2016.html

Due to the limited places to visit you must get an invitation to the seminar. To receive an invitation, write to support@ibase.ru marked “Seminar BBD” and brief information about your company and the database (size, number of users, application area). If your database is larger than 500GB, you’ll definitely get a invitation if less, depending on availability.

MWA Software is pleased to announce that IBX for Lazarus release 1.3.1 is now available for download.

This release includes some minor bug fixes for the IBControls, several important (albeit obscure) bug fixes in the main ibx source, and support for console mode programs.

Jan Svoboda added initial Firebird Sql support to Redmine project management software.
Feedback is welcome.

Support for RC4 wire encryption is now merged in Jaybird using java builtin RC4 and stream io framework.

FDB Python driver for Firebird v1.4.10 is available for download . This
is pure bugfix release.

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

An in depth article describing relational database internals.
There are various Firebird Design documents on ibphoenix.com also another paper on Firebird Conceptual Architecture.

Mark Rotteveel ‏ merged the Firebird SRP authentication contributed by Hajime Nakagami to Jaybird.

Wire crypt support (protocol 13) is merged with another pull request.

Full CI is now enabled for Firebird DotNet Provider using AppVeyor