SourceForge has announced the categories for its Community Choice Awards, the winners of which will be announced next month at OSCON. Last year Firebird got several nominations and won in two categories (Best Project for Enterprise and Best User Support). Can we do it again? Well, you have to be IN to WIN — so get hold of your SF id and password and head for the Nominations page.
The call for papers deadline for consideration of speakers and topics for the sixth international Firebird Conference in September has been extended to 15 June. Selection must be complete by the end of June, so please get drafts in as soon as possible!
Currently there is a call for papers with a deadline of 31 May so time is getting short. If you wish to present at the sixth international Firebird Conference at Bergamo, Italy, from 25-27 September, then act soon!
Firebird 2.1 MacOSX PowerPC kits are back online with a problem in the remote interface fixed.
The members of the Firebird Project announce the release of Firebird 2.0.4, a point release with fixes for several Nbackup problems. Forced writes on Linux will work with this version. Summary here. Kits are starting to come through to some European mirrors. As usual, we ask for your patience if they are slow reaching your local mirror.
The members of the Firebird Project team are proud to announce the release of Firebird 2.1, a full release containing many sought-after new features including database monitoring, global temporary tables, database triggers and dozens of new internal functions. This release includes kits for 64-bit Windows and all MacOSX environments and constitutes our largest-ever platform coverage. Enjoy! Details As usual, we ask you to be patient if the kits are slow reaching the mirrors.
Thanks to our porting fanatics Paul Beach and Alex Peshkov, an experimental build of Firebird 2.0.4 64bit for Solaris 10 AMD64 is available for download and testing.
The Firebird Project team announces a release candidate for the Firebird 2.0.4 sub-release, now available to download and test on 32-bit Windows, 32-bit and AMD64 Linux and MacOSX for x86 and PPC. Please test it thoroughly and report your experiences (good or bad) back to the Firebird-devel or the Firebird-test list.
The Firebird Project team is happy to announce that download kits for the second (and hopefully, last) V.2.1 release candidate are now available for Windows and Linux 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. MacOSX Intel 32-bit are there, x64 still in QA, coming soon.
A second Alpha build of the forthcoming FirebirdClient (ADO.NET Data Provider) for .NET 3.5/2.0 is released for field-testing. Mainly, this Alpha fixes some bugs. Development of the new Entity Framework support is still work-in-progress.