IMPORTANT: It has been found that V.2.5 Classic for Linux has problems with AST delivery if used with glibc 2.5. With glibc 2.7 it works properly. The situation with glibc 2.6 is unknown for now. If your glibc version is lower than v.2.7, it must be upgraded before using Firebird 2.5 Classic/Superclassic.
Philippe Makowski, who maintains Firebird packages for Fedora, Mandriva/Mageia and OpenSuse, is looking for someone to take over the OpenSuse packaging as he no longer has the time to do it all. If you have the skills and interest, Philippe would be pleased to hear from you and promises to help as needed. You may use the email contact route or simply connect with him in firebird-devel or firebird-general — subscribe here.
Today Jiri Cincura announces the newest version of the ADO.NET providers for Firebird. Details here.
Alexander Potapchenko is pleased to announce that an up-to-date release candidate (RC2) is ready in pre-release for downloading and testing.
The slideshow from yesterday's Live Meeting webinar (Dmitry Yemanov, Alexey Kovyazin) on Firebird Performance Testing is viewable here.
Alexander Potapchenko has officially accepted a proposal from the Firebird Foundation to resume development of the ODBC driver. Work has begun on the completion of the previously stalled V2.0 "RC2" release. If you are having any problems with the current driver but have not reported them because the sub-project wasn't active, now would be a good time to add them to the Tracker. More...
Next Webinar: Firebird Performance Testing with Dmitry Yemanov and Alexey Kovyazin will take place on October 19, 2010. More info here.
The Firebird team is pleased to announce the release of Firebird 2.5. Release kits for Firebird 2.5 are now making their way to the Sourceforge mirror servers. The 32-bit and 64-bit kits are available for Linux and Windows. Update October 06, 2010: The MacOSX/Darwin 32-bit and 64-bit Intel packages are on their way to the mirror servers. A Microsoft Live recording of the Firebird Launch webinar is available (10.8 MB zip file). Feel free to copy the link anywhere, share it, etc.
Next Monday the MindTheBird campaign team will run a webinar at 1300 GMT in anticipation of the launch of Firebird 2.5 Final.
The Firebird QA group has now released the 64-bit Windows kits for field-testing Firebird 2.5 Release Candidate 3.