Firebird Project Development Newshttp://www.firebirdsql.orgMon, 20 May 2013 18:00:02 +0400FirebirdSQL RSS FeedThis site and the pages contained within are Copyright © 2000-2013, Firebird Project. Firebird® is a registered trademark of Firebird Foundation Incorporated.http://www.firebirdsql.org/favicon.icohttp://www.firebirdsql.orghttp://www.firebirdsql.org/en/news/jaybird-2-2-3-released-19300/The Firebird JDBC team is happy to announce the release of Jaybird 2.2.3.Sat, 11 May 2013 23:12:08 +0400http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/news/the-firebird-book-second-edition-now-in-print-19233/The second edition of Helen Borrie's The Firebird Book is now available to purchase in both electronic and print formats. Sat, 30 Mar 2013 10:06:31 +0400http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/news/security-updates-for-firebird-2-5-2-and-firebird-2-1-5-are-released-19205/The Firebird Project releases important security updates addressing a remote stack buffer overflow discovered in the Firebird Server during March, 2013.Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:36:15 +0400http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/news/annual-general-meeting-of-firebird-foundation-march-20-2013--19188/Firebird Foundation, the non-profit organization which finances Firebird development, will have Annual General Meeting (AGM) at March 20, 2013. The AGM addresses the issues that are required to continue functioning from year to year: review the finances, hear what the committee(s) have been doing, elect a new committee. This is a good moment to join Firebird Foundation as voting ($300) or associate ($50) member: http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/membership/ Fri, 15 Mar 2013 07:54:31 +0400http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/news/firebird-python-final-driver-fdb-1-0-is-released-19176/FDB release 1.0 is out: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb Improvements: Removed dependency on presence of fbclient library at import time. This caused some confusion to new users when fdb install failed when Firebird was not (yet) installed. Bugs Fixed: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/PYFB-25Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:47:09 +0400http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/news/jaybird-2-2-2-release-19085/The Firebird JDBC team is happy to announce the release of Jaybird 2.2.2.Sun, 03 Feb 2013 23:38:57 +0400http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/news/roger-vellacott-19084/Recently we learned with sorrow of the death of Roger Vellacott in November, from cancer. Roger was a significant contributor to Firebird and its community from the earliest days, as a voting member of the Firebird Foundation and a regular contributor to support forums. The company he led, Passfield Data Systems, in Bath, U.K., is a Firebird sponsor. We extend our sincere condolences to Roger's family and his colleagues at Passfield. Firebird ProjectFri, 01 Feb 2013 23:26:31 +0400http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/news/firebird-python-driver-fdb-0-9-9-is-released-18972/FDB release 0.9.9 (a.k.a. almost final) is out: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdbSat, 01 Dec 2012 21:34:37 +0400http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/news/ado-net-provider-3-0-2-sub-release-18940/As it turned out, there was a small regression in 3.0.1, so Jiri Cincura had to release ADO.NET Provider 3.0.2. You can download it in the ".NET Provider" section of Downloads.Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:11:00 +0400http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/news/ado-net-provider-3-0-1-sub-release-18938/Jiri Cincura announces the 3.0.1 sub-release of ADO.NET provider for Firebird. You can download it in the ".NET Provider" section of Downloads. Enjoy! Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:27:17 +0400http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/news/firebird-2-5-2-sub-release-is-available-18914/Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 2.5.2 — a minor release of the award-winning relational database management system.Wed, 07 Nov 2012 08:23:24 +0400http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/news/ado-net-provider-3-0-0-release-and-ddex-provider-3-0-0-release-18882/Today Jiri Cincura announced the 3.0.0 release of ADO.NET provider for Firebird and the 3.0.0 release of the Firebird DDEX Provider for Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010/2012. You can download them in the ".NET Provider" section of Downloads. Enjoy!Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:12:26 +0400http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/news/firebird-conference-2012-schedule-18870/Firebird 2012 Conference schedule was just published http://firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-conference-2012/ Firebird Conference 2012 will take place on October 26-27 in Luxembourg. Only 2 days left!Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:55:42 +0400http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/news/drb-systems-goes-from-gold-to-platinum-sponsorhip-18845/DRB Systems (http://www.drbsystems.com/), producer of POS systems for carwash industry (see case study) decided to upgrade their sponsorship from Gold to Platinum this year. Firebird Project developers and Firebird Foundation Committee would like to thank DRB Systems and personally Steve Summers for the ongoing support of Firebird SQL. Monetary support of Firebird development is especially important due to the fact that Firebird 3 is going to be released next year.Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:12:37 +0400http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/news/jaybird-2-2-1-release-18820/The Firebird JDBC team is happy to announce the release of Jaybird 2.2.1. Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:25:20 +0400http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/news/firebird-conference-talks-list-18811/List of presentations for Firebird Conference 2012 is available at conference page: http://firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-conference-2012/ More details about main presentations will be published soon too. Please remember — Early Bird discounts for Firebird Conference are valid only till October 1, 2012!Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:34:35 +0400http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/news/jaybird-firebird-jdbc-driver-survey-18794/The Jaybird team would like to invite developers and users of Jaybird to fill out a survey on your use of Jaybird (Firebird JDBC driver). You can find the survey at http://infopoll.net/live/surveys/s36021.htm. The results of the survey will be used to decide where to focus development of the upcoming Jaybird versions. Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:45:01 +0400http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/news/firebird-2-5-2-release-candidate-available-18787/The Firebird Project team is happy to announce that the release candidate for the Firebird 2.5.2 sub-release is ready for testing. This includes packages for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X platforms, as well as the source code tarball.Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:02:42 +0400http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/news/early-bird-registration-for-firebird-conference-2012-18781/As you know, Firebird Conference 2012 will take place in Luxembourg, October 26-27. http://firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-conference-2012/ Early Bird registration for Firebird Conference 2012 in Luxembourg is now open. For those who register before October 1 there are discounts from standard EUR190/GBP169 attendee fee: -10% discount for single attendee EUR 171/GBP152 -20% discount for group 3+ EUR 153/GBP135.2 Register now: https://www.ibphoenix.com/shop/category/8?cur=GBP Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:41:55 +0400http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/news/ddex-provider-for-visual-studio-new-sub-release-18773/Jiri Cincura announces the V.2.0.6 sub-release of the Firebird DDEX Provider for Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010/2012.Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:12:46 +0400