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.
The Firebird QA group has now released the kits for field-testing Firebird 2.5 Release Candidate 3 on MacOSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard) i86 (32-bit).
Today is Firebird's 10th birthday. Firebird Foundation President Philippe Makowski has greetings for all of us.
The Firebird team is pleased to announce that kits for field-testing the third release candidate for Firebird 2.5 are now available. The 32-bit and 64-bit kits are available for Linux, along with 32-bit kits for Windows and 64-bit for the MacOSX/Darwin Intel platform. The missing kits for 64-bit Windows and 32-bit MacOSX are still in QA and will follow shortly.
This weekend will see the staging of the seventh Firebird Developers' Day in Piracicba, Brazil. We wish our Brazilian colleagues a day at least as good as the previous six such events.
The Firebird development team is pleased to announce the release of Firebird v.2.0.6 for Windows 32-bit, Linux x86 and x64 and MacOSX/Darwin i86 and PPC. Download kits.
Thomas Steinmaurer won the article contest staged as part of the Mind-the-Bird Campaign. The winning articles (in MS Word format) can be downloaded from the M-t-B Benefits page (scroll down) or read in HTML format at the IBPhoenix website.