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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 [...]

We are releasing Jaws 0.8.6 and here are the list of changes .Also here is the installation guide for ubuntu intrepid ibex and firebird 2.1                    

On Firebird Python mailing list there is an interesting thread about rewriting Firebird Python Driver Here is Pavel response There is some information at python driver web space at Firebird project site: http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devel&sub=python Driver has also it’s own project at JIRA tracker. > Is there any documentation for firebird protocol? http://firebird.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/firebird/NETProvider/trunk/Documenta\ tion/FirebirdWireProtocol/FirebirdWireProtocol.pdf But it doesn’t cover protocol enhancements from FB 2.1 Also JayBird [...]

Mario H. Cornejo wrote in his blog about creating domains in Firebird 2.1                    

Support of the integrated Windows authentification (SSPI) for Firebird 2.1. Support of the system auth using environment variables: ISC_USER and ISC_PASSWORD. Feature of enable/disable database triggers for separate connection is available. Support of long names and BOOLEAN type in Interbase 7.x and Interbase 2007 was added. Support of arrays was improved. Access to arrays via IBProvider now becomes more robust [...]

By philippe on Thursday 29 May 2008 Since I helped Mandriva to do their packages for Firebird, I jumped and with Michal, we made things happen Users of Opensuse 10.0,10.1,10.3 and future 11.0 but also SLE 10 can now just use the server:database repository  and get Firebird 2.0.4 As soon as the Firebird Project will publish Firebird 2.1.1, [...]

Here is the new guide for installing firebird 2.1 and flamerobin on the ubuntu hardy heron and can be used for other releases (gutsy/feisty/dapper/intrepid ibex)

Just a quick sample of integrated windows auth in Firebird 2.1

The members of the Firebird Project team are proud to announce the release of Firebird 2.1, a full release containing many sought-after new features including database monitoring, global temporary tables, database triggers and dozens of new internal functions. This release includes kits for 64-bit Windows and all MacOSX environments and constitutes our [...]

you can install it from my ppa repository ps: if you get an startup error  on hardy it’s an known bug (soon i will re upload the package) [See remaining text…]  modify  /usr/lib/firebird/2.1/bin/fbmgr to look like this #!/bin/sh FIREBIRD=/usr/lib/firebird/2.1 export FIREBIRD exec $FIREBIRD/bin/fbmgr.bin [...]

The Firebird Project team is happy to announce that download kits for the second (and hopefully, last) V.2.1 release candidate are now available for Windows, Linux and MacOSX Intel 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. You are invited to test it with as much rigour and vigor as you like and report your experiences (good or bad) [...]