Firebird News

The Firebird Project hires 35 developers to speed up development!

April 1, 2008 Artur One comment

Features like automaticaly speech to text translation, SMP support up to 1,500 CPUs, built-in OCR UDF’s, embedded browser, integrated email server, IPv12 support, GPS-ready, and all new MSDOS 6 support are among the new things to be released in FB 2.666.

A Release Candidate version is expected in 1 week.

The Core developers team also have grown a lot with the hire of 35 new developers to work full time for Firebird.The Firebird Project is having some problems coordinating such a large team, but they are sure that when the beer finish everything will be up and running.

“We are so excited about this great news, that we are thinking about changing the name to “The Project”, just after the acquisition of Oracle (target to the last quarter of 2008).”

Congratulations, Firebird Team !

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Firebird Project Releases Firebird 2.5 Zeta 2

April 1, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

“The Firebird Project today officially releases the much-anticipated version 2.5 Zeta 2 of its open source Firebird relational database software.

The 2.5 release has many interesting new features that you can play with, like database triggers, temporary and monitoring tables, common table expressions, recursive queries and dozens of new inbuilt functions. We encourage you to see what you can achieve with these new features and let us know about any deficiency.

Windows ,MacOSX ,Linux kits fir 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are ready to download now You are invited to test it furiously and report your experiences (good or bad) back to the firebird-devel list.

It brings with it a large collection of long-awaited enhancements that significantly improve performance, security and support for international languages and realise some desirable new SQL language features. Under the surface, it also provides a much more robust code platform from which the re-architecting planned for Firebird 3.0 is proceeding.

The Firebird project roadmap for 2008 is now available.”

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Firebird Developer’s manual for Visual Studio .Net

March 31, 2008 Cantu Leave a comment

IBProvider just released an on-line manual for using its own OLEDB driver to work with Firebird or InterBase databases in Visual Studio .Net.

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firebird turkyie portal

March 29, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

here is a new portal for Turkish language speakers

http://www.firebirdturkiye.com/

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Going distributed with Plastic 2.0

March 28, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

One of the most important new features in Plastic 2.0 is the distributed system. Today I’m going to talk about the set up I’m using to work from my laptop, disconnected from any network, and how I use the distributed system to synchronize changes back and forth.

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MacOSXintel32-port of FreeAdhocUDF

March 28, 2008 ctheuring Leave a comment

Today, 2008-03-28, we published a 32bit-Intel-MacOSX port of FreeAdhocUDF ready for download. Many thanks to Paul Beach for helping and compiling.

Also, for special issues, a SuSe10-FireBird 1.5 port could be downloaded.

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ADOdb-5.04a for php5 released

March 28, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

ADOdb is a PHP & Python database class library to provide more powerful abstractions for performing queries and managing databases. ADOdb also hides the differences between the different databases so you can easily switch dbs without changing code.

here is the release announcement and it does have support for firebird

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firebird on download.com

March 28, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

you can vote and comment for firebird on download.com now

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