After two years of squashing bugs Debian 6.0 Squeeze is released , in the new version Firebird 2.1.3 is included that is considered quite stable and supported for development if you don’t use the new features from 2.5. Here is the guide for installing it on Debian stable systems from official repository.
Here is the ChangeLog for Firebird 2.1.3 package in Gentoo :
Bump to 2.1.2, mostly fixes #264955. Thanks to Vladimir, John W. Higgins and all the testers in the bug.
Firebird 2.1.3 package is uploaded to Debian Unstable (Sid) and here is the list of package changes
* fix repack.sh invocation in watch file
* make executable
* New upstream release
+ drop patches released upstream
– cvs_CVE-2009-2620_DOS.patch was deleted (fixed upstream in 2.1.3)
– cvs_autogen.sh-autoreconf.patch
* refresh all patches to apply cleanly
* no longer regster QuickStart.pdf with doc-base; it was dropped upstream
* -classic.postinst: remove stray stop rc.d symlinks
What is interesting is to see the import diff vs the 2.1.2 package
Douglas Tosi wrote about why is recommended to do the upgrade in a short like review (If you don’t want to parse the changelog yet)
Yesterday Firebird 2.1.3 was made public. As with all maintenance releases its focus is stability. A number of bugs are fixed and it is a recommended update for everyone using older versions of the 2.1 series
Via twitter status post
Philippe Makowski created a prerelase repositories for OpenSuse and SLE
Choose the repository you need and setup Firebird 2.1.3RC1, Flamerobin and the Python driver
Firebird V2.1.3 Release Candidate 1 is available for testing.
