Carlos Cantu announces a Firebird V.2.5 article-writing contest as part of the Mind the Bird campaign, with cash prizes. Deadline: April 16.
The second round of voting is open in a contest to choose artwork to celebrate Firebird's 10th anniversary. Five candidate entries to five for a final poll. Vote today: you have only until March 24! [Voting finished: March 24
The first round of voting is open in a contest to choose artwork to celebrate Firebird's 10th anniversary. Full color and black-and-white versions are supplied for each artwork entered. This voting stage will reduce the candidate entries to five for a final poll.Vote today and have your say! [Voting finished: March 22]
Dmitry Kouzmenko today formally announced the Mind the Bird! campaign to try to raise Firebird's public profile as Firebird 2.5 approaches release. Whether you are new to Firebird or you have been around for many of Firebird's almost 10 years, there is something interesting for you. To find out and to join up, visit the Mind the Bird! website.
Jiri Cincura announces a new 2.5.2 sub-release of the ADO.NET provider for Firebird. It is mainly bug fixes but includes some minor internal improvements. Download links here. Complete list of changes here.
Adriano dos Santos Fernandes has made a 9-minute code swarm Flash video of the Firebird tree. See here. Rather cool!
The Firebird team is pleased to announce that kits for field-testing the second release candidate for Firebird 2.5 are now available. Both 32-bit and 64-bit kits are available for Linux, Windows and MacOSX/Darwin Intel platforms. Please test well and report any bugs directly to the Firebird-devel list (click here if you are not subscribed). Please do not post questions about this pre-release version to the Firebird-support list.
The Windows server VM has been added to the farm and the first 32-bit and 64-bit snapshot kits of Firebird versions 2.1, 2.5 and 3.0 have been automatically copied over to the snapshots area on the web server. V.2.0 snapshots won't be produced on this server because of MSVC runtime incompatibility. We'll let you know when an alternative is found.
The problem with creating new accounts in the Tracker is fixed. However, the "captcha" images provided by JIRA are not always good and it doesn't provide the ability to request a better one. If you can't read the image, you have to start over, sorry. Memory exhaustion problems with the JVM that have been causing JIRA to crash in the past days seem to have been righted, at least for now. Thanks again, Pavel.
Broadview Software has created two new VMs for the project's developers and testers to use as build farms for POSIX and Windows, respectively. This enables us to automate the daily snapshot builds and transfer them each day at approximately midnight GMT to the pre-release area for field testing.