Firebird News

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.0.0 Beta 3. This is the fifth pre-release of the new PHP 7 major series. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs and incompatibilities in the bug tracking system.

PHP 7.0.0 Beta 3 contains fixes for 33 reported bugs, 11 of which are security related, and altogether over 200 commits with various improvements.

Monitor Firebird SQL Database 2.1+ using any operating system.
The monitor was developed in Java (Jaybird) and NetBeans IDE.

If interested in contributing, please feel free to request to be a collaborator on github page

Features:

Monitor connections;
Monitor transactions;
Monitor slow SQL statements;
Cancel connections;
Cancel SQL statements;
Manage registration databases;
Manage recorded logs.

A big thanks to Hajime Nakagami for his pull request for the Firebird 3 wire protocol (version 13) for Jaybird.
https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/jaybird/pull/3

Firebird reached 14th place on DB-Engines Ranking of Relational DBMS for July.

Or 4th place among relational open-source RDBMS. (Dimitry Yemanov noticed )

http://db-engines.com/en/ranking/relational+dbms

ps:Previous place was 15th.

From the Bug Tracker via Paul Beach’s Blog:

Vlad Khorsun commented on CORE-1999:

gbak now has a new command-line switch

-ST(ATISTICS) TDRW show statistics:
T time from start
D delta time
R page reads
W page writes

Article By Helen Borrie :
One of the PSQL treasures coming with Firebird 3 is the ability to write scalar functions in procedural SQL.

Here are the instructions to configure systemd for Firebird 2.5.4 Classic

tarball distribution package from firebirdsql.org