Category: General news

Donation page is now updated so you can contribute to that sepecific fund

http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/donate/

On 31 October, 2014, the Firebird Project released the Firebird 2.5 Language Reference in Russian, a large documentation task sponsored by Moscow Exchange, one of the biggest Firebird users in the world, and IBSurgeon (tools and services for Firebird). Several Russian-speaking Firebird Project core developers participated in creating this tome of almost 500 pages  to ensure its quality.  Coming up will be the extensions (also in Russian) covering Firebird 3.

Node C++ Module for Firebird is updated in git repository and is already pushed to npm
It can be compiled now with node v10.x  , There is work in progress for node v11.x

nan is now a dependency

If you want to install it from git

sudo npm install -g  xdenser/node-firebird-libfbclient

or from npm with

npm install firebird

We start to publish presentations from Firebird Conference 2014. The first presentation is “Firebird release strategy in 2015-2016“, by Dmitry Yemanov, core Firebird architect

Here are his  Firebird Conference Jaybird and Jooq presentations + source code:

1:http://prezi.com/jqlzg6rkdhg_/jaybird-status-update/

2:http://prezi.com/-oggns1ehvmv/querying-firebird-with-jpa-and-jooq/

3:https://github.com/mrotteveel/talk2014

You can watch the twitter stream from Firebird Conference 2014 : #fbconf14

Firebird 3 is on the fast track to be released very soon, and all FirebirdSQL developers should help Firebird Project to release v 3.0 as soon as possible.

You can help Firebird in the following areas:

Beta-testers!

Firebird 3 must be thoroughly tested with real-life databases and applications – with your applications and databases!
Download Firebird 3 Beta 1 now (unofficial installer at the moment) and start testing it.

Join the Firebird 3 Launch campaign

http://firebird3.com/en/start/