Firebird 2.00 Alpha 02
5 May 2005
The Firebird Project is pleased to announce the release today of the second round of Firebird 2.0 public Alpha kits
for immediate download and testing.
- This version of Firebird 2 is an alpha version, meant for field testing only and not for use in production.
- All changes and new features are subject to further change and/or
withdrawal in subsequent alpha and beta releases, leading up to final
release. Do not assume that databases created by or upgraded to the on-disk
structure of this alpha will be upwardly compatible with subsequent test
builds/releases.
- Bugs, problems, etc. can be posted to the Field Test bug tracker or
to the Firebird Development List.
Firebird 2 contains a large number of new features, including
derived tables, support for Execute Block, increased table sizes,
new improved index code (the 252-byte index length limit is no longer
applicable), expression indices, numerous optimiser improvements,
enhanced security features, support for on-line incremental backups
along with numerous other improvements and bug fixes.
Alpha 2 includes fixes for several problems that showed up in the testing of Alpha 1. Please read
the Release Notes for more details.
The following builds are currently available:
Win32
Linux i686 Classic
Linux i686-NPTL Superserver
NOTE :: at present there are no Superserver builds available for Linuxen that don't support NPTL threading.
Feedback, input and comments re this release will be appreciated, as they will help to speed up the cycle for the full Firebird 2.0 release.
Happy testing!
-- Firebird Project
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