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IBX 2.3.2 is now available for download with Lazarus 2.0 support

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MWA Software is pleased to announce that release 2.3.2 of IBX for Lazarus is now available for download from https://mwasoftware.co.uk/ibx. Older versions of IBX will fail to compile with Lazarus 2.0 and upgrade to this version is necessary for use with Lazarus 2.0. All users are recommended to upgrade to the new release. Please read the changelog before upgrading. The release also includes a new SQL Tokeniser and the ability to select the Firebird Library (DLL or shared object) as a property of TIBDatabase or TIBXServicesConnection. Several minor bug fixes are also included.

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.8.2. This is a bugfix release.

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The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.8.2. This is a bugfix release.

The release was built with FPC 3.0.4.

Here is the list of changes for Lazarus and Free Pascal:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.8.0_release_notes
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.0.4

Here is the list of fixes for Lazarus 1.8.x:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.8_fixes_branch

The release is available for download on SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/

Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the “Lazarus 1.8.2” directory.

Checksums for the SourceForge files:
http://www.lazarus-ide.org/index.php?page=checksums#1_8_2

For people who are blocked by SF, the Lazarus releases from SourceForge are mirrored at:
ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/releases/
and later at (after some time for synchronization)
http://mirrors.iwi.me/lazarus/

Firebird Pascal Client API 1.0.2 is now available for both FPC and Delphi

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MWA Software’s  Firebird Pascal Client API package (fbintf) release 1.0.2 is now available for download. The package has been updated to support Delphi Win32 (from Delphi 2010 onwards) in addition to the Free Pascal Compiler (3.0.0 onwards). The package is otherwise functionally identical to release 1.0.1.

The Firebird Pascal Client API package provides common Pascal language bindings to the Firebird API that are independent of the Firebird API version. Both legacy and Firebird 3 APIs are supported. The fbintf package provides the Firebird API in a format where all data types for SQL data, interface parameters and results are native Pascal types, including all parameter blocks and database information. The Pascal API is pitched at a similar level and purpose to the IBPP Firebird API provided to the C++ world. It is a required dependency for version 2 onwards of IBX for Lazarus, and is provided as both a standalone package and as part of IBX2.

The Firebird Pascal API is intended to be simple to use and to place the minimum burden on the API user when it comes to managing the Firebird client library and the various Pascal objects that are created to provide the API. It is implemented as reference counted COM interfaces which, for the API user, are as easy to use as other managed types such as AnsiStrings and dynamic arrays. The user only needs to worry about accessing and using the interface; disposing of interfaces is performed automatically whenever an interface goes out of scope. It is intended to be a full implementation of the Firebird API, including events, services, blobs and arrays.

It is distributed under the IDP Licence.

The package may be downloaded from https://www.mwasoftware.co.uk/fb-pascal-api

A comprehensive user manual fully describing the API is available from https://www.mwasoftware.co.uk/documentation

22 Years of Delphi and it Still Rocks

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Marco Cantu wrote on his blog :

To celebrate another year of success for Delphi. I dug a bit in my archive. Here are a few old images, mostly ads from Borland, before and after the product release.

It is interesting to notice how the original business value (increased productivity for developers) is still true today with a totally changed landscape, mobile, and all. We could re-use some of the original ads, as they make sense today. The other things I noticed is that most of the other tools that were popular back than, have long been forgotten. Delphi, on the other hand, is still popular.

http://blog.marcocantu.com/images/delphiads/image027.jpg

Released a new version of Firebird Delphi data access components (IBDAC)

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Devart company released a huge update of all its Delphi data access components including Firebird/Interbase data access components (IBDAC).

IBDAC 5.6 main updates/fixes are:

  • RAD Studio 10 Seattle is supported
  • INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE batch operations are supported
  • Now Trial for Win64 is a fully functional Professional Edition
  • Now at automatic refresh of Detail dataset the OnBeforeOpen event is not called
  • Generating conditions for filtration when using similar field names and aliases in TCRDBGrid is fixed
  • SQLMonitor behavior on using similar objects is fixed
  • Bug with endless reconnection in assigned connection is fixed
  • Bug with editing Blob and Memo fields used in local filter is fixed
  • Bug when working with databases having charset NONE is fixed

You can already download new IBDAC 5.6 now and use it in your projects.

CopyCat Developer 3.7.1

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Microtec is pleased to announce the release of CopyCat Developer version 3.7.1!

CopyCat Developer is a Delphi components library encapsulating a database replication engine with support for Firebird, Interbase, MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite and NexusDB. For more information, please refer to our site: http://www.copycat.fr

The changes in this release are as follows:

– XE7 support

– Major performance and memory management improvements of big logs. Instead of loading the whole list of changes to replicate into memory at once, it is now streamed in row by row.

– The UPDATE OR INSERT statement is now used in FB 2.1+, in order to reduce the number of statements needed and thus optimize performance.

– Internal changes enabling the use of prepared queries during replication, thus again dramatically improving performance.

– Improved performance of TCcConnection.GetFieldType

– Fixed a memory leak that caused problems with long-running replication cycles.

– Fixed a bug in the millisecond handling in Firebird.

FBLib (Firebird Pascal Library) repository has moved to Github

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For years the FBLib (Firebird database library for Free Pascal, Delphi and Kylix) has lived in the 3rdParty directory tree of tiOPF. We are cleaning up the tiOPF repository, and so I have now moved the FBLib project out to Github, into its own repository. The repository history is intact. I still need to add a few more patches I have locally, and some Lazarus based support apps.

All future development of FBLib will now happen on Github.

To get a copy of the code:

git clone git://github.com/graemeg/firebird-lib.git

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