Announcements of new Firebird related products, or new releases.
PyFirebirdSql 1.1.0 is released with following changes:
– Firebird4 DecFloat support
– Modify statement allocate, drop treatment
– Add factory parameter in cursor() method.
– Add client process pid and name to op_attach (See the related golang driver change https://github.com/nakagami/firebirdsql/pull/60)
I’m proud to announce a new update to my Migration Guide to Firebird 3 eBook! The changes in revision 1.20 are mostly concentrated in the chapters about Connecting to Firebird 3 using an old client library, Testing application’s queries, Jaybird, .NET Provider and the two new sections about permissions for creating databases and for generators and exceptions.
In the next days, all those who already bought the eBook will receive an email with instructions about how to download the new revision.
The printed version will also get updated asap is already updated to 1.20. Those who already bought the printed book (rev 1.02) can email me to receive a PDF with the changes.
Click here for more information and to buy the eBook.
IBSurgeon is offering 10% discount on the HQBird Standard to all buyers of the eBook. More information here.
dbMigration .NET 7.5 is a simple, easy and intuitive multiple database migration and data synchronization tool, With it you can easily migrate schema and data to Firebird and vice versa. (Full support for Firebird 1.5~4.0+)
Upscene Productions is proud to announce the availability of the next release of the popular multi-DBMS development tool:
” Database Workbench 5.4.0″
This release support for MariaDB 10.1 and 10.2, MySQL 5.7 and Azure and the latest version of PostgreSQL. Previous releases included a custom report writer, a renewed stored routine debugger with full support for Firebird 3 Stored Functions and Packages and several other features.
Database .NET v24 is an innovative, powerful and intuitive multiple database management tool.
(Full support for Firebird 1.5~4.0+)
Perl extension DBD::Firebird version 1.31 is released with quite a few changes if you compare with provious announcement , here are a few from the ChangeLog:
* remove artificial hard-coded limit of 1_000_000 bytes when fetching BLOB data
* add /usr/local to the list of possible firebird homes [RT#123723]
* blob_type needs to be signed to be assigned/compared to -1
* bpb parameter to isc_open_blob2 is a pointer
* drop unused column character set definition
* correctly check for Test::CheckDeps presense
* finish: do not check uninitialised status vector If statement type is isc_info_sql_stmt_exec_procedure,isc_dsql_free_statement is not called and there is no point checking the status vector for errors. An error there may be from a previous call, or just plain garbage.
Fixes Debian bug : 883183 — test failure on i386, and RT#110979
* add support for a ‘timeout=$secs’ parameter [RT#119764]
* put fb_api_ver in XS and make it available to both embedded and regular driver
* more constants for client version (major/minor/full version string)
Jiří Činčura announced that Entity Framework Core 2.0 provider for Firebird is now in beta stage.
The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.8.
The release was built with FPC 3.0.4.
This enables developers to extend on-premises systems to the cloud, be able to use MySQL-Aurora for web transactions with the added benefit to return subsets of data to Firebird.
