The Team is pleased to announce that most of the release candidate builds are ready for you to field-test. Builds for 32-bit and 64-bit Linux, Windows and MacOSX Intel are available. Download and enjoy. As always, your feedback to the Firebird-devel list would be welcome.
The voting pages are up for the 2009 Sourceforge Community Choice awards. Firebird has been selected as a final candidate in three categories: Best Project, Best Project for Government and Best Project for the Enterprise. Link through and vote your heart out! For your convenience, the three Firebird nominations are pre-selected.
The OpenSuse project now packages Firebird 2.1.2 in its Database repositories for v.10.3 and v.11.1.
Thanks to the efforts of Philippe Makowski, Firebird is now packaged in the latest Fedora 11 release. To visit the relevant database collection page, click here.
We've just learnt that Firebird will be a finalist for three of this year's SourceForge Community awards: Best Project, Best Project for Government and Best Project for Enterprise. The final vote is due to kick off on June 22. More news and URL soon.
Pavel Cisar releases PowerConsole v.0.7, a plug-in layer for his Firebird PowerTools Python tool set, for tasting and testing.
Commenting in his Sip from the Firehose blog about forthcoming DB tools development, Embarcadero's "David I" promises the new tools will add Firebird (and InterBase) support later in the year. [Refer to comments 1, 3 and 4.]
Jiri Cincura announces the final release of FirebirdClient 2.5 for .NET 3.5/2.0 with several new features, including Entity Framework support.
Firebird has been a winner before but — you gotta be in to win! Now's the time to put in your nominations for Firebird (and other SF projects you fancy, of course!). If our nominations are selected in one or more categories, then we'll be in the race to win more of those coveted Thingamajigs. Click the Thingamajig and do your best!
The last shreds of the once-mighty Borland have gone under the hammer. It has been bought by a U.K. company MicroFocus International plc that produces software for testing software. Recall that Codegear, the arm of Borland that maintained InterBase and produced Delphi, went to Embarcadero Technologies last year.