Firebird Project leader Dmitry Yemanov gives his Roadmap assessment of where Firebird development is headed in 2009.
The Firebird Team is pleased to offer the second round of Linux, Win32 and MacOSX release candidate kits for Firebird 2.0.5. Please refer to the Bug Fixes chapter of the release notes, test it well and report your experiences (good or bad) to the Firebird-devel list.
The Firebird .NET Provider sub-project is pleased to announce release 1.7.2 of the .NET Data Provider for .NET 1.1 and Mono 1.1, a maintenance release that backports a fix for connecting to Firebird 2.1 server.
Thanks to some Black Hat activity in our subnet at the weekend, we lost the website and the Tracker site for some days. The Tracker site is still undergoing repair and will be returned to service as soon as possible. We thank you for your patience.
The KInterbasDB 3.3 source tarball and Windows binaries for Firebird 2.x and Python 2.5/2.6 are ready to download and test.
Alexander Potapchenko has today uploaded 32-bit and 64-bit install kits and source for the first release candidate of the V. 2 Firebird ODBC/JDBC driver for Linux and Windows. Please test these thoroughly and report experiences, good or bad, to the Firebird-ODBC-devel list.
The Linux, Win32 and MacOSX release candidate kits for Firebird 2.0.5 were released for testing.
Sphinx is a very powerful and popular free open source full-text search engine. A few days ago, Sphinx 0.9.8.1 was released. Vlad Khorsun and Pierre Yager made a patch for Sphinx to support Firebird. Their patches and Windows binary are available to download and try out.
Watch the Firebird Project's CVS commits and changelog through Atlassian’s FishEye.
ODBC v.2 driver development has resumed with Alexander Potapchenko taking over the vacant role of coordinating the project. New late Beta builds by Alexander and also one from IBPhoenix are available for testing and feedback.