ZEOSLib 6.6.3 – stable is out now
We are proud to officially announce the release of the ZEOS DBO Library 6.6.3 – stable
Category: Tools & Products releases
Announcements of new Firebird related products, or new releases.
VM with FB+Ubuntu+Mondrian
There is a Firebird VMware applicance available for download. It contains: Ubuntu 8.04 x86, Firebird V2.1.1 (SuperServer) and Mondrian V3.0.4 with their foodmart example already set up with Firebird.
NHibernate 2.0 GA released
Nhibernate 2.0 GA was released.
Download here.
Overview of changes available here.
Get IBProvider with 20% discount!
All attendees of the 6th world-wide Firebird Conference can order IBProvider Professional Edition with 20% discount . Check more here.
NHibernate 2.0.0.CR2 released
Second release candidate of Nhibernate is available for download. Read release notes here.
FirebirdConfig 0.1.2.17 released
FirebirdConfig is free and provides you with a friendly user interface in order to configurate the firebird operation modifying the firebird.conf file with the most intuitive and functional graphic form
New packages of IBProvider Professional Edition came out
IBProvider v3 Release Candidate 3 [build 3.0.0.4963]
- NUMERIC-types support was improved.
- Disabled metadata cache mode performance was increased in 2.5 times.
- Metadata schemes were updated. Among them in schemes TABLE_INFO and TABLES classification of external (EXTERNAL TABLE) and temporary tables (GLOBAL TEMPORARY PRESERVE/DELETE) was added starting from Firebird 2.1 and Interbase 7.5.
- Correct processing of active transactions in the connection pool.
New build IBProvider v1.9.9.2547 and IBProvider v2.6.3.2547
- BLOB-columns metadata description bug was fixed.
- Correct processing of active transactions in the connection pool.
Details on the Firebird driver site.
DROL Winner
The winner of the “Darwin Race of Languages” competition is Werewolf, who submited a nive GUI frontend for gbak (Windows and Linux), made in Delphi/Kylix. You can check more information and download it here.
Virtual Volumes View 0.9 released
VVV is an application that catalogs the content of removable volumes like CD and DVD disks for off-line searching.
Folders and files can also be arranged in a single, virtual file system. Each folder of this virtual file system can contain files from many disks so you can arrange your data in a simple and logical way.
FirebirdConfig
A very nice GUI frontend to configure Firebird.conf file can be found here. It runs on Windows, and the author is waiting for your comments.