Category: General news

Mark Rotteveel tweeted about his progress towards using JNA instead of JNI:

Continuing my adventure with JNA for Firebird native client and embedded support in Jaybird 3.0, so I can remove existing JNI wrapper.

Github model for contributions really works : here is the project pulse for last month.

There are quite a few pull requests closed and merged for .NET Provider

FreeBSD port is updated to Firebird 2.5.3 . Please consult the release notes

ps: Unicode patch is not needed anymore (Fix included in 2.5.3 release)

pyfirebirdsql Version 0.9.4 is released
with following changes:

• – Fixed Cursor.rowcount.
• – Cursor.callproc() return out parameters.
• – Cursor.execute() return cursor instance itself.

You can consult the Commit History

The pure JavaScript Node.js Firebird driver is updated with a few code cleanups and documentations updates 

• Added Detaching event loop example
• Charset warning : Charset for database connection is always UTF-8
• Added License info to the package.json
• Cleanup unused constants (Dead platforms : VMS …)

You can install or update from npmjs and you can consult the Commit History

Ruby Firebird Extension Library 0.7.4 release fixes a scaling bug in fb for 32-bit architectures
and now builds cleanly and passes tests on Ruby 1.8.6 thru 2.1.0

News via Brent Rowland

Paul Vinkenoog wrote about the Language Reference Progress (Select section 80% complete in DML chapter)
The latest sources are in CVS (manual/src/docs/refdocs/langref/langref25/)

The SELECT section is now about 80% ready. The only subsections that still need to be completed are ORDER BY, FOR UPDATE and WITH LOCK.
The other DML sections should be complete and correct.

ps: this progress status is related to DML chapter status not the other chapters

If you want to translate you can contact firebird-docs

The Russian Misson Control Center uses Firebird.

I quote Alex Peshkoff on the Firebird Development list

FYI – our colleagues from the Mission Control Center tested format of
VMT in the following environment
Intel(R) Itanium(R) Processor 9310
HP-UX B.11.31
HP C/aC++ Version A.06.26

and it differs from what we have on windows/linux. I do not have access
to that box myself, so I can’t report what is actually that format. But
an attempt to access it as we do on windows/linux cause an error.

I have asked Alex and is confirmed

Q: Can you confirm this news ? , I have saw it on ibphoenix and then
Adriano asked if is true
Alex:
I never use twitter (and same sites), but looking at subj I can say – yes, they do.
And they use it on rather specific HW, including itanium with HPUX.

PHPNG (next generation) is the branch for the next php release (PHP 7). There are a few steps for firebird extension (ibase) in order to work with the new engine : You can clone the repository and test php master branch from git.
The extension changelog is here.
(There are a few patches already submitted by Dmitry Stogov)

ps: pdo_firebird seems already supported and is in the list of extensions already converted
Update: phpng is merged into php master branch