Firebird Advent Calendar 2017 – Time for inspiration
Meiji Kimura and Hajime Nakagami created Firebird Advent Calendar 2017 , there Firebird Japanese community will post articles in each day of Advent period.
You can check for articles from the previous year for inspiration.
UDFs are deprecated in Firebird 4
From Firebird 3 to 4 list of know incompatibilities file :
UDFs are deprecated in v.4. That means that UDFs can’t be used with default configuration (parameter “UdfAccess” set to “None”) and all sample UDF libraries (ib_udf, fbudf) are not distributed any more. Most of functions in that libraries were replaced with builtin analogs in previous versions and therefore already deprecated. A few remaining functions got safe replacement in UDR library “udf_compat“, namely div, frac, dow, sdow, getExactTimestampUTC and isLeapYear. Users who still wish to use UDFs should set “UdfAccess” to “Restrict <path-list>”. If you never used to modify this parameter before path-list is just UDF and resulting line in firebird.conf should be:
UdfAccess = Restrict UDF
Recommended long-term solution is replacing of UDF with UDR.
Ps: Here is the related git commit .
Firebird 3 Developers Guide (pre-beta) now available
The first pre-beta release of the English version of the Firebird 3 Develoepers Guide is now publicly available. Please report any problems or mistakes. The translation work, from Russian to English, was sponsored by a crowdfunding campaign. Thanks to all who contributed!
Firebird travis-ci is configured for all supported branches
Firebird supported branches from github are now configured on travis
https://travis-ci.org/FirebirdSQL/firebird/branches
Build status image after each checkin :
Upscene releases Database Workbench 5.3.4
Upscene Productions is proud to announce the availability of the next release of the popular multi-DBMS development tool:
” Database Workbench 5.3.4″
This release includes a custom report writer, increased PostgreSQL support and a renewed stored routine debugger including full support for Firebird 3 Stored Functions and Packages.
Ubuntu 17.10 comes with Firebird 3.0.2
Ubuntu 17.10 is released and it comes with Firebird 3.0.2 (Latest stable version)
Thanks to Damyan Ivanov and Debian project contributors to Firebird packages
IBReplicator V5.0.4 has been released.
IBReplicator V5.0.4 has been released. For more information please see the release notes.
Firebird ODBC driver repository is moved to Github
Firebird ODBC driver repository is moved to Github from old CVS Repository from SourceForge
Stored routine debugger Hopper, version 2.0 released
Upscene Productions is proud to announce version 2 of “Hopper”, a stored
routine debugger for InterBase, Firebird and MySQL.
This version includes support for Firebird 3 packages and stored functions,
MySQL diagnostic-statements, binary data in variables and much more.
For more information, check the Hopper page at our website.
About Hopper
Hopper is a stored routine debugging tool for MySQL, Firebird and InterBase. If you use
stored procedures on these database systems, Hopper will be a great tool for debugging
these routines.
About Upscene Productions
Based in The Netherlands, Europe, this small but dedicated company has been providing
database developers with useful tools for over 15 years. Slowly expanding the product portfolio
and gaining recognition amongst InterBase and Firebird database developers, they now offer
tools for a whole range of database systems, including Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.