H-K Software is staging this year's conference in Hamburg, Germany, from October 18 to 20. Currently speakers are being called to submit papers, either live or as a digital presentation on DVD. Submit 30-minute or 60-minute session proposals in English or German by August 15. Questions, email.
More than 500 attended the fourth Firebird Developers' Day in Piracicaba, Brazil last weekend. Full report with pictures.
Due to some trouble we ran into with the batch update, we have to take the tracker off-line for short maintenance. But, as we have some other larger maintenance in pipeline, we'll take this unscheduled opportunity to do it all at once. So the tracker will be down for several hours now (in the worst case, for the rest of today). Tracker Admins
There will be a Firebird Rendez-vous at the Libre Software Meeting in Amiens next Thursday, July 12. If you cannot be there, there will be a video broadcast. Some sessions will be in English, others in French.
Firebird is a finalist in four categories of the SourceForge Community Choice Awards beanfest for 2007. For once, we're not looking at a spitting contest for database engine groupies: in each category the Firebird project is up against 9 other projects all selected for excellence from hundreds of thousands of SF projects. Categories are Best Tool or Utility, Best Project for the Enterprise, Best User Support and Best Project Overall.
The Firebird team is pleased to announce that the first Beta builds of Firebird V.2.1 are ready for testing. Binary and source kits for Linux and and some Win64 and Win32 kits should start appearing at the SourceForge mirrors today. Read Release Notes.
Most of our SourceForge-based mail list forums have been either down or severely delayed for up to 3 days. We have submitted a support request so please hold your breath. Admins
Our Tracker site will be taken down for a scheduled upgrade this coming Saturday, April 28, at 0800 GMT, for approximately six hours.
The author of the DotNetFirebird and FirebirdTutorial docs for users of the .NET providers, Dan Letecky, has closed down his websites and donated his marvellous collection of material to the Project. Dan also transferred the dotnetfirebird.org and firebirdtutorial.net domains to us so the good news is that, as from today, your old links to these materials will work, viz. http://[www.]dotnetfirebird.org and http://[www.]firebirdtutorial.net.
Firebird DDEX provider v.2.0.2 is available for download. This release is built against the final Visual Studio 2005 SDK (February 2007).