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You can test the new snapshot from here  Michael committed a few things during the last days, fixed bugs and implemented one or two feature requests.  Among them are - support for database login with empty password - support for trusted user authentication for Firebird 2.1+ - better support for non-ascii metadata in UTF8 databases - support for read-only transactions and different [...]

See Bug #271919: please sync firebird 2.1.1 from debian experimental This bug was fixed in the package firebird2.1 - 2.1.1.17910-release.ds1-1ubuntu1 ————— firebird2.1 (2.1.1.17910-release.ds1-1ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low * Sync from Debian experimental. (LP: #271919) * Call autoreconf instead of autogen.sh to fix FTBFS. Add automake as a Build-Depends. Thanks to Michael Casadevall for the inspiration.                    

The initial version of kinterbasdb v3.3 was committed to subversion (trunk). It’s basically v3.3 by David Rushby + fixes to v3.2 line we made to make it work with FB 2.1. Source tarball and windows binaries for fb 2.x & python 2.5/2.6 for testing should be available soon. Now I’m working on documentation as this version introduces some important new [...]

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Here is the download and release link . Thanks to Luiz Fernando Firebird Suport is included                     

I have tested the firebird 2.1.1 classic and flamerobin 0.9 on an Windows7 system The setup went this way Next Next Next without issues                    

Morfik Technologies released, this week, version 2.0 of its flagship AppsBuilder product. The new release of the web application development tools adds a multitude of visual design oriented features. In addition to these features, Morfik AppsBuilder 2.0 now includes Firebird 2.1 as its bundled database.                    

Here is the news , seems to be the nokia strong arm they need it for i810 type of devices (is now debian based) Thanks to Damyan we have an debian port for arm that works just fine so all we need in ubuntu is an sync from it                    

Firebird 2.1.1 and Flamerobin 0.9 are added to altlinux. AltLinux is an Linux distro that will be used in all the Russian Schools Other related news about altlinux you can grab from google [Ed:so this is a big thing , imagine that firebird will be available to every kid or school there , also in Brazil they [...]

The new IBProvider version: Support of 49 Firebird and Interbase code pages  including UNICODE_FSS, UTF8 and OCTETS binary data.  Supported character sets. Possible provider operation without registration in the system via manifest file. The article: Example of working with Firebird and Interbase without registering additional components. Prevention of memory leaks in Firebird client during library unloading. Specific errors have been [...]

Sphinx is a very powerful and popular free open source full-text search engine. A few days ago, Sphinx 0.9.8.1 was released. Vlad Khorsun and Pierre Yager made a patch for Sphinx to support Firebird. Their patches and Windows binary are available to download and try out. It’s an great search engine used a lot in the [...]

Firebird 2.1 (version 2.1.0) is included by default in the Ubuntu 8.10 named Intrepid Ibex that was released on 30 October. To use it you might need this guide and also there is an repository with version 2.1.1 (recommended)                    

I (Dan Wilson) put together the procedure I used in order to get native and PDO firebird support working with PHP and CentOS 5. I was unsuccessful using the FAQ at http://www.firebirdfaq.org/faq191/, and couldn’t find any other tricks on the web that worked. So, I compiled from a fedora source RPM as follows                    

These are the general notes on building Firebird 2.5 from debian git , and it should work on any debian based distro like ubuntu or others $apt-get install libicu-dev libedit-dev git-core you need to check out the firebird 2.5 repository from debian git $git-clone git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-firebird/2.5 $cd 2.5 $debuild -i and wait for it to build it for you also you can [...]

I have implemented new feature available from FB2.0, it’s timeout for wait transaction. more …