Category: Tools & Products releases

A new stable release of the PEAR::MDB2 abstraction layer and of the Firebird/Interbase driver has been released.

PEAR::MDB2 is a merge of the PEAR::DB and Metabase PHP database abstraction layers.

Download and changelog:

MDB2 v.2.4.0
MDB2_Driver_ibase v.1.4.0

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Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:Cluster support was added, allowing the maximum database size to be extended up to several dozens or even hundreds of millions of documents. Strong relevancy calculation improvements were made to return higher quality search results. Many new features were added and performance improvements were made.

We are pleased to announce the availability of the phpBB3 Beta5 package. This fifth beta release marks the nearing end of the beta testing phase. The next release we anticipate will be Release Candidate 1.

The phpMyFAQ team is pleased to announce the second preview of our next generation release, phpMyFAQ 2.0.0-beta. This release added user and group based permissions for categories and records, OpenSearch support, a “submit translation” link and form, experimental support for Oracle databases, experimental support for Interbase/Firebird databases, an updated Arabic translation, and of course, we fixed tons of bugs. Do not use this version in production systems, but please test this version and report bugs!

Release focus: Major bugfixes

From the changelog , they fixed an interbase/firebird extension compile error

This release addresses a crash problem with the session extension when register_globals is turned on that was introduced in PHP 4.4.5. This release comes also with the new version 7.0 of PCRE and it addresses a number of minor bugs.

Crowd is a web-based single sign-on (SSO) tool that simplifies application provisioning and identity management.
Crowd Standalone ships with a built-in database, however, for production environments we recommend configuring Crowd Standalone to use an external database. Crowd supports most relational database servers and therefore we suggest using the one you are most comfortable administering.

A new version of InstantBDExpress, the tool of choice for porting Delphi BDE-based applications to the dbExpress technology is available. More details here: http://www.ethea.it/eng_instantbdexpress.asp.