Firebird News

This is an update from upstream 2.5.3

Firebird (2.5.3.26778.ds4-1) is uploaded
to Debian unstable with the following changelog

New Flamerobin snapshot for Linux x86-64 is released this one was built and static linked with WxWidgets 3.0.1 and boost 1.55

to use it from console type :

cd Downloads
tar -xJvf ~/Downloads/flamerobin-0.9.3-ff8df8e-x86_64.tar.xz
sudo mv opt/flamerobin /opt
/opt/flamerobin/bin/flamerobin

ps:tested on Debian sid and Ubuntu 14.04 (I’m interested if it starts on other linuxes : Fedora , Gentoo , Arch , Slackware)
libfbclient.so.2 is required

This post makes me realize I have done very little to make public the work I have done with IB Objects over the past years.

For everyone’s knowledge, IB Objects has been available on Lazarus for years now and is very mature there. In fact, several bugs and/or deficiencies in Lazarus have been fixed based on the massive amount of manhours that have gone into porting IB Objects to Lazarus. IB Objects has a very large and robust regression testing suite that we had to get Lazarus able to pass, which we accomplished over a year ago. There is a huge commitment between the Lazarus and IB Objects development teams. We have been closely working together for years to make these products work together as optimally as possible.

I suppose some may appreciate being able to more easily port their IBX based applications to Lazarus. However, due to the very poor implementation of transactions in the IBX architecture, among many other deficiencies, I strongly discourage staying with IBX. It has no future with Delphi due to FireDAC native drivers and it’s only hope of continuation is by people who are unfriendly towards Firebird. It’s a great gesture of goodwill to have ported IBX to Lazarus, but it is really only a gesture towards a majority of people staying with InterBase and Delphi.

Also. anyone wishing to have access to IBO on Lazarus may request access to the full sources without cost under the terms of the Trustware License I use.

Note: There are still some visual controls in IBO that aren’t perfected for use in Lazarus. But, all non-visual components are 100% functional.

Kind regards,
Jason Wharton
ibobjects.com

Mark Rotteveel published a snapshot of Jaybird 3.0 for testing purposes.

This is a very early snapshot, a lot of work still needs to be done
before Jaybird 3.0 will be release-ready. We’d appreciate your feedback,
but we’d like to emphasize that this version is unstable and not ready
for production.

The protocol implementation has been fundamentally rewritten and changes
have been made for stricter JDBC conformance. As a result the driver
might exhibit different behavior than previous versions. Read the
release notes carefully to see if those differences are intentional. Bug
reports about undocumented changes in behavior are appreciated.

Current snapshot versions do not support Type 2 and embedded driver

Download from sourceforge

or from Maven from the sonatype snapshot repository

Release notes are online at driver documentation page