Sphinx is a very powerful and popular free open source full-text search engine. A few days ago, Sphinx 0.9.8.1 was released. Vlad Khorsun and Pierre Yager made a patch for Sphinx to support Firebird. Their patches and Windows binary are available to download and try out.
Watch the Firebird Project's CVS commits and changelog through Atlassian’s FishEye.
ODBC v.2 driver development has resumed with Alexander Potapchenko taking over the vacant role of coordinating the project. New late Beta builds by Alexander and also one from IBPhoenix are available for testing and feedback.
For your convenience, you can link to all the known blogs and pix galleries from the recently finished Firebird Conference from the Events page.
Paul Vinkenoog's amazing efforts bring the release of Language Reference Update for Firebird 2, just in time for the conference. Available as online pages and as PDF, this document augments Paul's earlier LangRef Update for Firebird 1.5. Use these documents in combination with the IB6 Beta LangRef.pdf.
Paul and Alex have now released the Firebird 2.1.1 Classic and Superserver packages for Solaris 10 on AMD64 and EMT64.
The sixth international Firebird International Conference starts this week on Thursday 25th in Bergamo, Italy. Pasta, pizza, vino and plenty of intellectual food as well.
Paul Beach and Alex Peshkoff have released the Firebird 2.1.1 Classic and Superserver packages for Solaris 10 i386, along with an installer for a v.2.1.1 compatible libgcc runtime.
The DDEX Provider v.2.0.4 for Visual Studio is released and ready to download.
Paul Beach and Alex Peshkoff have released the Firebird 2.0.4 Superserver package for Solaris 10 i386.