Category: Tools & Products releases
Announcements of new Firebird related products, or new releases.
pyfirebirdsql will become the next Firebird Python driver
Philippe Makowski wrote on the firebird-python list
The driver is hosted on github https://github.com/nakagami/pyfirebirdsql
First thanks Hajime Nakagami for your job
I really thinks that we need to put our effort on this driver so it became the Firebird Python driver instead of Kinterbasdb
here few points I saw :
– need a change in setup.py so install work
– transactions parameter we need the possibility to send custom transaction parameter buffers, for what I saw today transactions are (isc_tpb_write, isc_tpb_wait, isc_tpb_read_committed, isc_tpb_rec_version)
– need documentation
– can we extend it or create a new module to work with trace api ?
….
ps after a small change in setup.py I will certainly package it for
Mageia and Fedora
Database Workbench 4.1.2 released
Ladies, gentlemen,
Upscene Productions is proud to announce the next
version of the popular multi-DBMS development tool:
” Database Workbench 4.1.2 Pro ”
This release includes the FREE Lite versions for InterBase, Firebird
and MySQL.
For more information, see here.
Click here for the full list of the 43 changes in v4.1.2
Database Workbench supports:
– Borland InterBase ( 4.x – XE )
– Firebird ( 1.x, 2.x )
– MS SQL Server/MSDE ( 7, 2000, 2005, 2008, MSDE 1 & 2, SQL Express )
– MySQL 4.x, 5.x
– Oracle Database ( 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g )
– Sybase SQL Anywhere ( 9, 10, 11 and 12 )
– NexusDB ( 3.0 and up )
ANN: dbExpress Driver for Firebird version 31
Hi,
dbExpress Driver for Firebird version 31 has released. Here are the
fix:
4.1.2011.31 Release on 30 Mar 2011
- Consolidate all version of DBX for Firebird Driver to a single Win32 DLL built by Delphi XE.
- The new drivers continue support Delphi 2007/2009/2010 and XE DBX
- The driver has certified to support Firebird 2.1.4
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Best Regards,
Chau, Chee-Yang
Fb Trace Manager v1.5.1 released
Fb Trace Manager v1.5.1 released
Django 1.3 released , Firebird driver updated
The version in 1.3 branch passes all of the tests and works with latest version of Django
ps:One little observation, the trunk version just works with django 1.2.x.
Perl DBI driver Interbase-> Firebird rename/test/upload complete
Also i have tagged the release with release 0.52 in git
The cpan tar is be available here http://search.cpan.org/~mariuz/
There is only one test left to be fixed
Thanks Stefan for the help and fixes 
Why it was needed and rationale:
Firebird sql forked from interbase and needs a new namespace for the drivers too also the drivers needs to be separated some things in the api and sql dialect are different and sooner or later there is a need for this separation also the DBD::InterBase seems to be unmaintained
Firebird 2.5 final package will be in next #Ubuntu Linux : Natty 11.04
Here is the chage log so there will be no need to add stable Firebird 2.5 ppa in Ubuntu Natty just follow the install instructions.
Thanks to Damyan and all who contributed to solve this sync bug
SQL Workbench/J – Java / Jdbc based tool
SQL Workbench/J is a free, DBMS-independent, cross-platform SQL query tool. It is written in Java and thus it should run on any operating system that provides a Java Runtime Environment.
It can be used with Firebird jdbc driver
PHP 5.3.6 released with changes for Windows users :VC++6 builds disabled
Officially VC++6 builds are dead (There are community builds but unsupported by core php developers)
Here is the announcement
Windows users: please mind that we do no longer provide builds created with Visual Studio C++ 6. It is impossible to maintain a high quality and safe build of PHP for Windows using this unmaintained compiler.
For Apache SAPIs (php5_apache2_2.dll), be sure that you use a Visual Studio C++ 9 version of Apache. We recommend the PHP builds as provided by ApacheLounge. For any other SAPI (CLI, FastCGI via mod_fcgi, FastCGI with IIS or other FastCGI capable server), everything works as before.Third party extension providers must rebuild their extensions to make them compatible and loadable with the Visual Studio C++9 builds that we no longer provide.