Firebird related news
Accordingly to its release lifetime policy, Firebird Project notifies that the Firebird v2.1 series has reached its end-of-life and thus will not be maintained anymore. The last official release in this series, Firebird 2.1.7, which has been announced in December 2014, will be available from the “Discontinued Versions” section of the download area.
Disisweb team have updated the website Firebird in Spanish.
This year 2015 we celebrate 15 years of serving this website, so we will be creating new sections and redesigning the news sections and articles.
Some sections are temporarily disabled, but are already running the news sections and items correctly.
In addition, we are very aware of the release of Firebird 3.0 and promoting tutorials and courses.
Thank you for keep visiting this site!
Just read on the Lazarus forum that Reinier Olislagers better known there as BigChimp passed away on december 4th. A big loss for the Lazarus and Firebird community, he will be sorely missed.
http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,26726.0.html
He was very active in the Lazarus Database forum answering many questions also he contributed to many projects :turbobird , sqldb components
Also he wrote a very nice wiki page for Firebird and Lazarus
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Firebird_in_action
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Firebird Language Reference translation – The $7,000 target has been achieved. Many thanks to all those who contributed.
Collected money will go to translation of Firebird documentation and, after USD$ 7000 threshold was exceeded, Money will go for further development of next volumes: «Firebird Operations Guide» and others.
Our survey about what languages you use with Firebird will be closed in a few days. If you have not voted yet, do it now! Knowing what Firebird users are currently using may help in directing future project decisions, etc.
The survey is in the right sidebar in the main page of the site.
A CVE-ID is assigned to this vulnerability CVE-2014-9323
The following distros already patched the bug : Suse , Debian , Fedora , RedHat , CentOS
For those who didn’t follow FirebirdNews in the past years, check out the Firebird Band performing a classic Christmas song 🙂
I hope the guys will enjoy it!
Band is:
Drums: Alex “Bonham” Peshkov
Guitar: Vlad “Vai” Khorsun
Guitar: Claudio “Friedman” Valderrama
Bass: Adriano “Harris” Fernandes
Vocal: Dmitry “Plant” Yemanov
Very nice idea Firebird Advent Calendar 2014 (Japanese)
