For those who are curious to see the trophies we won in the recent SourceForge.net Community Choice awards, there's a photo to view. The gizmos make horrible noises. The engraved marble plinths weigh 2 Kgs each...
A Mandriva Live CD with Firebird has been compiled by Our Man in Mandriva, Philippe Makowski. Current version has Mandriva 2007.1, Firebird 2.0.1 Classic, Flamerobin, Ibwebadmin and KInterbasDB. More info and download links at the Firebird Downloads page.
And here is the promised Release Candidate for Firebird 2.0.3. Testers, please give it a good soaking and report problems to Firebird-devel.
The Firebird 2.0.2 release has been recalled due to a significant regression that has shown up (Tracker Issue CORE-1434). Our sincere apologies for the inconvenience. A release candidate for v.2.0.3 will follow shortly.
FirebirdClient v2.1.0 Release Candidate 2, ADO.NET Data Provider for Microsoft .NET 2.0 and Mono, is available for download. The installer of this version has been built using Wix. If all goes well, this will be the last release candidate.
New snapshot builds will be unavailable over the weekend and possibly until Tuesday GMT, due to an infrastructure problem. Sorry!
It was with sorrow that we learned of the death last month of David S. Rushby, aged 27, in a drowning accident in the Black Sea at Anapa, Russia.
The official announcements for the SourceForge Community Choice Awards are up now, here.
Firebird is to have a two-part slot in this year's Entwickler Konferenz in Frankfurt, Germany. EKON runs in parallel with the all-Europe Codegear (Borland) Developer Conference at the end of September, but our presenter, Thomas Steinmaurer, assures us that this double session will be pure Firebird, unfettered by any requirement to merge tracks with any Codegear products.
Firebird scooped up two of the Sourceforge Community Choice Awards, announced today (US time) at the OSCON CCA Awards party. Firebird wins in the Best Project for the Enterprise and Best User Support categories. The announcements are not up yet but a guy called Matt Aslay posted the results to the blogs at news.com. We understand a recognition will be coming our way in the form of a donation to the Foundation.