Jiri Cincura announces a new 2.5.2 sub-release of the ADO.NET provider for Firebird. It is mainly bug fixes but includes some minor internal improvements. Download links here. Complete list of changes here.
Adriano dos Santos Fernandes has made a 9-minute code swarm Flash video of the Firebird tree. See here. Rather cool!
The Firebird team is pleased to announce that kits for field-testing the second release candidate for Firebird 2.5 are now available. Both 32-bit and 64-bit kits are available for Linux, Windows and MacOSX/Darwin Intel platforms. Please test well and report any bugs directly to the Firebird-devel list (click here if you are not subscribed). Please do not post questions about this pre-release version to the Firebird-support list.
The Windows server VM has been added to the farm and the first 32-bit and 64-bit snapshot kits of Firebird versions 2.1, 2.5 and 3.0 have been automatically copied over to the snapshots area on the web server. V.2.0 snapshots won't be produced on this server because of MSVC runtime incompatibility. We'll let you know when an alternative is found.
The problem with creating new accounts in the Tracker is fixed. However, the "captcha" images provided by JIRA are not always good and it doesn't provide the ability to request a better one. If you can't read the image, you have to start over, sorry. Memory exhaustion problems with the JVM that have been causing JIRA to crash in the past days seem to have been righted, at least for now. Thanks again, Pavel.
Broadview Software has created two new VMs for the project's developers and testers to use as build farms for POSIX and Windows, respectively. This enables us to automate the daily snapshot builds and transfer them each day at approximately midnight GMT to the pre-release area for field testing.
The problem with the tracker.firebirdsql.org URL has now been resolved and old bookmarks should work again. There is still a problem with Java that is preventing the creation of new accounts in the Tracker system: some point in the layering does not like the OpenJDK. Pavel is working on that. In the meantime, if you don't have a Tracker account and need to file a bug report, please subscribe to the Firebird-devel list and post the problem description there.
Firebird's Jira Tracker is now restored on the new VM, with data up to 5 December 2009. However, we have lost attachments from the last two years. Missing ticket headers from after Dec 5 will need to be reconstructed from notification messages.
Sorry to say, the Project still has no Tracker and no news mirror. If you have bugs to report, either in existing releases or in the V.2.5 first release candidate, please post your report to the Firebird-devel list. For now, if you find broken links on this website (other than those to the dead servers) then please feel free to inform us via a message to the Firebird-website or the Firebird-general list.
Thanks to the progressive death of the NAS server from which all our Internet facilities are served, we lost everything — Tracker, website, Wiki and news mirrors — piece-by-piece over the past days.