Firebird Documentation SourceForge CVS to GitHub migration is done
News via Firebird-Docs mailing list :
The migration from SourceForge CVS to GitHub has been completed. The repository is at https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird-documentation (with clone URL git@github.com:FirebirdSQL/fiebird-documentation.git or https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird-documentation.git )
Members of the firebird-documentation team have write access to the repository, and in addition to me and Helen, I have given Paul rights to add (or remove) members from this team.
Be aware that FirebirdSQL organization members that are marked as ‘owner’ also have write access and can manage the team.
I have disabled the issues and projects features, but left the Wiki enabled.
If there are any problems or questions, let me know.
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Mark Rotteveel
Firebird has now builtin functions FIRST_DAY and LAST_DAY
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.