Announcements of new Firebird related products, or new 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.
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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.
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.
jrmarino writes “Pascal Data Objects (PDO) is a database API that works equally well on FPC and Delphi. When I introduced this 10 months ago, only MySQL 4.0, 4.1, and 5.0 were supported. Since then, I have moved the project to Sourceforge and recently added drivers for Firebird 1.5 and 2.0. Some new abstraction capabilities were also added.”
Via lazarus.freepascal.org
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.
After several months of development, NHibernate 1.2 is approaching release, as indicated by the change from Beta to CR (Candidate for Release). The latest release fixes most reported bugs and includes numerous small improvements. The release is now available for download as a Windows Installer (.msi) package, and a separate installer contains the API documentation, ready to be integrated into Visual Studio 2005.
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NHibernate is a port of Hibernate Core for Java to the .NET Framework. It handles persisting plain .NET objects to and from an underlying relational database. Given an XML description of your entities and relationships, NHibernate automatically generates SQL for loading and storing the objects. Optionally, you can describe your mapping metadata with attributes in your source code.
