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The recent release of Firebird version 2.1.1 is very welcome.
Here are a few of the fixes I consider important for 2.1 production servers and so recommend the update:
Stability fixes for the monitoring tables
Fixed possible corruption of the users database, security2.fdb.
Fixed nBackup, which did not work in version 2.1.
Fixed a memory leak on DDL statements.
The complete [...]
Now we have 64bit builds of Firebird 2.1 for MacOSX 10.5, we have issues trying to test them properly using the Firebird QMTest QA suite. This QA suite relies on Python and kinterbasdb. Currently Philippe Makowski has been able to run the tests from a 64bit Linux client. But is unable to run the tests [...]
Today I put the finishing touches to a native 64bit port of Firebird for MacOS 10.5 (Leopard).
This required the following changes to the Firebird 2.1 code base (B2_1_Release). For anybody else considering adding a new platform to Firebird then you may find this useful.
I have just finished writing a depot install for Firebird Classic 2.0x on HPUX . A depot install is the HP equivalent of a Linux rpm or Solaris package. The operating system install uninstall utilities take command of looking after the files. Although in more complex areas you still have to have the relevant postinstall [...]
Ater three years of development, here is the new version of Gambas.Read the article on the wiki to get a full presentation of Gambas 2. Read the ChangeLog for information about the changes since the last release candidate.
Heads up to anyone working with the sourcecode from svn trunk. I’ve just merged the new Setup system. The new system provides a lot more helpful information during setup and is designed such that if an error happens, the process can continue if the cause of the error is corrected.
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