The Firebird Team is pleased to release the second Beta of the new Firebird 2.5 version for field-testing. 32-bit and 64-bit builds for Linux, Windows and MacOSX Intel are available. Download and, as ever, send all feedback — hot or not — to the Firebird-devel list. Have fun!
The Team is pleased to announce that the second (hopefully final) release candidate builds are ready to field-test. Builds for 32-bit and 64-bit Linux, Windows and MacOSX Intel are available. Download and enjoy. As always, your feedback to the Firebird-devel list would be welcome.
The Firebird Project again wins a SourceForge Community Choice Award. This year, we won the "Best Project for Enterprise" category. Thanks to SourceForge and the voters amongst our community for this recognition.
Adriano dos Santos Fernandes announces the availability of an early test version of the "FB/Java" plug-in he is developing to enable Java procedures to be executed externally from the Firebird 3.0 engine.
A reminder for all you Firebirders in Brazil: the 6th Firebird Developer Days event in Piricicabo, São Paulo, Brazil, is this weekend. Details here.
The Team is pleased to announce that most of the release candidate builds are ready for you to field-test. Builds for 32-bit and 64-bit Linux, Windows and MacOSX Intel are available. Download and enjoy. As always, your feedback to the Firebird-devel list would be welcome.
The voting pages are up for the 2009 Sourceforge Community Choice awards. Firebird has been selected as a final candidate in three categories: Best Project, Best Project for Government and Best Project for the Enterprise. Link through and vote your heart out! For your convenience, the three Firebird nominations are pre-selected.
The OpenSuse project now packages Firebird 2.1.2 in its Database repositories for v.10.3 and v.11.1.
Thanks to the efforts of Philippe Makowski, Firebird is now packaged in the latest Fedora 11 release. To visit the relevant database collection page, click here.
We've just learnt that Firebird will be a finalist for three of this year's SourceForge Community awards: Best Project, Best Project for Government and Best Project for Enterprise. The final vote is due to kick off on June 22. More news and URL soon.