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Firebird ports for Intanium and hppa to be released soon
If you watch the debian building logs for different architectures then there are a few ones left to be done , Itanium , Hppa and Alpha (dead one)
http://buildd.debian.org/build.cgi?pkg=firebird2.0
and seem that this will be solved very soon
firebird2.0 package is now included in debian etch backports (stable)
firebird2.0 package is now included in debian etch backports (stable)
http://packages.debian.org/etch-backports/firebird2.0-super
for using the etch stable backports read this reference
firebird 2.0 package is also included in testing
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/firebird2.0-super
and unstable
http://packages.debian.org/sid/firebird2.0-super
Firebird “fbserver” Service Connect Request Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Vulnerability has been identified in Firebird, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the “fbserver.exe” service (port 3050/TCP) when processing a “connect” request (0×1) with a large “p_cnct_count” value, which could [...]
Vuln: Firebird Remote Pre-Authentication Database Name Buffer Overrun Vulnerability
Old vulnerability surfaced up from the deep . If you have an old Firebird 1.5.x please upgrade to latest version
ps: seems that securityfocus is updating their own vuln database so this is why it surfaced up again (the bug was squashed long long time ago)
The Firebird 2 Quick Start Guide is now 100% ready
The Firebird 2 Quick Start Guide is now 100% ready, and available at this URL
http://www.firebirdsql.org/pdfmanual/Firebird-2.0-QuickStart.pdf
flamerobin 0.7.5 available in Gentoo
I[William L. Thomson Jr.] recently committed an ebuild for FlameRobin 0.7.5 into Gentoo’s
portage repository. Should sync to mirrors in a few hours and users can
then
emerge flamerobin on Gentoo
I have had an ebuild for FlameRobin since 0.4.8. I posted to the list
long ago about it I believe. I became a dev a few months back, and [...]
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Morfik Announces Pricing, Including a FREE Version
Morfik is poised to be the first AJAX RAD/IDE tool developer to go 1.0. Morfik is a traditional graphical development environment that takes the code you write in Java, C#, BASIC and Pascal, attaches the Firebird SQL database and Apache web server, and converts your graphical forms and code into HTML/JavaScript
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FirebirdClient (.net provider) v2.0.1 released
FirebirdClient v2.0.1, ADO.NET Data Provider for Microsoft .NET 2.0, and
mono is available for download.
Download information can be found here:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=netprovider
On this release there are two new binary packages for:
* Mono 1.1.18+
* Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0
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Carlos Guzmán Álvarez
Vigo-Spain
OpenOffice.org Base support in jaybird
In order to improve the situation we have created a separate driver that contains workarounds for the issues in OpenOffice.org Base. This driver will be part of Jaybird 2.2 release, but the snapshot releases already contain the required code.
Turbo Delphi (Explorer) vs Turbo Lazarus
On the previous post, I talked about Turbo Delphi (Explorer), now I’m gonna talk a little bit about her cousin… Lazarus.
Read more on the bee.ography blog
[Ed: both can be used with firebird and OOpascal is the main language used with firebird - see previous pool results]
mojoPortal 2.1.3 Released
See my previous blog post for release notes.New files are available from the download page.
The next 1.x release will happen when the new Firebird Data Layer is ready, stay tuned for more information on that.
You can read more about this release on the MojoPortal’s blog
grails support for firebird
Grails GORM is based on the Hibernate object/relational mapping framework. Therefore
Grails supports all Hibernate databases including Firebird
ps: they have nice screencasts too
MojoPortal- Support for Firebird in SVN
In the near future we will have support for using Firebird Relational Database.
Thanks to Gareth Goslett from South Africa who is the developer/maintainer of this new Data Layer.
Read the full Good News about Mojo+Firebird
Firebird,Flamerobin,KinterbasDB included in archlinux
Here are firebird package details , they have python-kinterbasdb+flamerobin included in the linux distro, If you don’t know what is archlinux therea are some reviews on the distrowatch.org
MDB2_Schema is learning new tricks
Igor is doing great work on moving forward the XML based database schema format originally developed by Manuel Lemos as part of Metabase that is used in MDB2_Schema. [ED…skiped some content]The idea behind this schema format is to make it possible to define a single database schema that can be used to create, alter and [...]
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