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Did you know that you can report bugs directly to the Project developers?
There is a common-sense procedure to follow, so that your report is useful to us: we do ask that you read the article How to Report Bugs Effectively (available in several languages) before you proceed. Then, post your bug report to the firebird-support or the firebird-devel list and ask if you need to post it to Tracker.
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Is there a feature you would like to request?
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Maybe it is already in Firebird's development programme. You can check up at the Tracker site using the Find Issues search tool. You can even vote on it! And if there is a feature YOU want that nobody else has registered yet, write up a good description and add it as a Feature Request.
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You will need to create an account in Tracker to report bugs, request features or vote. It is simple! Just go there and follow the sign-up instructions.
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Firebird Project Development News
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February 2010 |
CURRENTLY TESTING |
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8-Feb-2010 |
Firebird 2.5 Release Candidate 2 Now Available |
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The Firebird team is pleased to announce that
kits for field-testing the second release
candidate for Firebird 2.5 are now available. Both 32-bit and 64-bit kits are available for Linux, Windows
and MacOSX/Darwin Intel platforms. Please test well and report any bugs directly to the firebird-devel list (click
HERE if you are not subscribed). Please do not post questions about this
pre-release version to the firebird-support list.
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28-Jan-2010 |
Windows VM Added to the Farm |
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The Windows server VM has been added to the farm and the first 32-bit and 64-bit snapshot kits of
Firebird versions 2.1, 2.5 and 3.0 have been automatically copied over to the snapshots area on the web
server. V.2.0 snapshots won't be produced on this server because of MSVC runtime incompatibility. We'll
let you know when an alternative is found.
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26-Jan-2010 |
Tracker New Accounts Problem Fixed |
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The problem with creating new accounts in the Tracker is fixed. However, the "captcha" images provided by JIRA are not always good and it doesn't provide the ability to request a better one. If you can't read the image, you have to start over, sorry.
Memory exhaustion problems with the JVM that have been causing JIRA to crash in the past days seem to have been righted, at least for now. Thanks again, Pavel.
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24-Jan-2010 |
New Servers for Test and Snapshot Builds |
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Broadview Software has created two new VMs for the project's developers and testers
to use as build farms for POSIX and Windows, respectively.
This enables us to automate the daily snapshot builds and transfer them each
day at approximately midnight GMT to the pre-release area for field testing.
At the moment, most of the Linux builds are available from the Snapshots page.
Sergey will continue making his regular Linux builds available as a backup source. More news about other platforms and
possibly other snapshot kits as the build farm develops.
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19-Jan-2010 |
Tracker News |
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The problem with the tracker.firebirdsql.org URL has now been resolved
and old bookmarks should work again.
There is still a problem with Java that is preventing the creation of new accounts in
the Tracker system: some point in the layering does not like the OpenJDK. Pavel is working on that.
In the meantime, if you don't have a Tracker account and need to file a bug report, please
subscribe to the firebird-devel list and post the
problem description there.
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13-Jan-2010 |
Tracker is Restored |
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Firebird's Jira Tracker is now restored on the new VM, with data up to 5 December 2009. However,
we have lost attachments from the last two years. Missing ticket headers from after Dec 5 will need to be
reconstructed from notification messages.
The version of Jira is slightly newer than we had before, although it is not V.4.x, due to platform problems
with the Tomcat layer. We now have some new features, including FishEye integration, already configured for the
CORE project. Some reporting plug-ins may be missing: if so, it will take some forensics to detect which ones
they were and whether they are compatible with the new setup. The Subversion and CVS integration plug-ins are
installed and working.
Note that the URL is temporarily slightly different to what it was previously, so your old bookmark won't work
properly. Once the re-licensing issues are sorted out, the URL will revert to the previous one.
This has been a difficult recovery. In short, we just didn't have the failure protection we thought we had and
we failed to cover the unannounced disappearance of the project worker who set up Jira originally. The recovery task
was achieved thanks to the huge effort and dedication of Pavel Cisar, who took on
the task a month ago, single-handedly, as a "greenie". Some steps still remain to be done but the Tracker is open for business!
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11-Jan-2010 |
No News is Not Good News |
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Sorry to say, the Project still has no Tracker and no news mirror.
If you have bugs to report, either in existing releases or in the V.2.5 first release candidate, please post your
report to the firebird-devel list.
For now, if you find broken links on this website (other than those to the dead servers) then please feel free to
inform us via a message to the firebird-website or the firebird-general list.
Joining instructions for all of these lists are HERE, or you can just click Resources > Lists and Newsgroups in the top menu.
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See the news archive for past news articles.
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