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GSOC 2016 Finish Firebird Libreoffice driver integration

March 21, 2016 mariuz Leave a comment

There is a medium difficulty task for a c++ programmer in current GSOC 2016

The Firebird driver for LibreOffice was started, and is mostly functional, in a previous GSoC, but it needs finishing and polishing. The main remaining issue is that the firebird data format embedded in the .odb file is endianess-dependent. The idea is to switch to Firebird’s “archive” format that is not.

Required skills / knowledge
C++, SQL, Reading other’s code, capacity to work autonomously.
Difficulty
medium
Potential mentors
Lionel Elie Mamane, IRC: schoinobates, mail: lionel AT mamane DOT lu

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Firebird 4.0 Roadmap and Checklist.

March 17, 2016 mariuz One comment

Firebird 4.0 Roadmap and Checklist.

http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/planning-board/

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Firebird project repository was migrated to GitHub

March 17, 2016 mariuz Leave a comment

Dimitry Yemanov announced :

The project repository was migrated to GitHub:
https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird

Please wait a few days for things to settle down, we need to update some
infrastructure. SVN repository is still accessible, but new
contributions are expected to be provided as pull requests at GitHub.

When creating a GitHub account, we suggest to add your SourceForge’s
email (username@users.sourceforge.net) as a secondary one to associate
your past contributions with your account.

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“Guia de migração para o Firebird 3” is released

March 16, 2016 Cantu Leave a comment

FB 3 Guide The Portuguese version of my new eBook, Guia de migração para o Firebird 3 (Migration guide to Firebird 3) was just released! The book has tips and explanations to make the life of anyone who wishes to move to Firebird 3 easier.

An English version of the guide will be available in the following weeks at Amazon, both in paperback and digital formats. This is my third book devoted to Firebird, and the first one to be published also in English.

Brazilians can buy the guide right now in the FireBase on-line store.

Carlos H. Cantu

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Jaybird 2.2.10 has been released

March 14, 2016 mariuz Leave a comment

Jaybird 2.2.10 has been released, see https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/jaybird/releases/tag/v2.2.10 … for details

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ODBC driver updated

March 10, 2016 Cantu Leave a comment

Firebird ODBC driver 2.0.4 was released today, with the following changes:

fixed bug, URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/ODBC-79, “Problem with case sensitivity for table/relations name in SET TRANSACTION RESERVING clause”
fixed bug, URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/ODBC-174, “SIGSEGV received in libOdbcFb.so: memcpy in JString constructor incorrect input parameter”
fixed bug, URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/ODBC-184, “CHAR(X) fields have invalid length if using UTF8 charset and collations”
fixed bug, URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/ODBC-190, “ODBC function SQLGetInfo fails if SQL_KEYWORDS InfoType is requested”
fixed bug, URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/ODBC-191, “ODBC driver doesn’t show error message for Test connection button in DSN dialog. Improvements in Windows DSN dialog interface”
fixed bug, URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/ODBC-192, “Incorrect conversion of time values when retrieved as string”
correct alignment issues for Sun Solaris and HPUX – updated Linux makefile to support both iODBC and unixODBC, thanks to Paul Beach

You can download it at sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-ODBC-driver/2.0.4-Release/

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Firebird 3.0 RC2 is released

March 4, 2016 Cantu Leave a comment

Firebird Project announces the second Release Candidate of Firebird 3.0, the next major version of the Firebird relational database, which is now available for testing.

This Release Candidate demonstrates the complete set of features and improvements developed for the new release. Release Candidates are generally considered stable enough and may be recommended for testing in “almost-production” environments. Please report about any found bugs to the bugtracker.

Please read the Release Notes carefully before installing and testing this Release Candidate.

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Firebird Project will be moving its repositories to GitHub

March 2, 2016 mariuz Leave a comment

Firebird Project will be moving its repositories to GitHub

Dimitry Yemanov wrote on Firebird-Devel list:

I’m asking present contributors to create accounts there. If anyone
(including past contributors) wants your past commits to be
automatically linked to your GitHub account and be shown in the
statistics, please report your account name in this thread, or make sure
that your *.users.sourceforge.net email is added as a secondary one at
GitHub.

For the moment there is already a github mirror for sourceforge firebird core
https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/core

(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

ActiveRecord Firebird Adapter 1.0.3 is released

February 29, 2016 mariuz Leave a comment

New version released with small fix : helper typo #63

https://rubygems.org/gems/activerecord-fb-adapter/versions/1.0.3

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What’s new with Raspberry Pi 3

February 29, 2016 mariuz Leave a comment

What’s new with Pi 3? Onboard WiFi/Bluetooth, a new 64-bit quadcore processor, and 50% more processing power.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-3-on-sale/

The new Pi can give a boost if you use it with Firebird server

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