At 21:30 GMT November 21, 2006 the Firebird Tracker service will be unavailable, for database upgrade.
The Firebird Docs sub-project has published the Firebird 2.0 version of the Quick Start Guide. It is available on-line as a web document or you can download it from our FTP area as a PDF file. Thanks to Paul Vinkenoog for his stupendous effort in getting this update ready for the release of Firebird 2.0.
The fourth international Firebird Conference begins today. First papers at 12:30 p.m. GMT, opening session at about 6:00 p.m. GMT.
The Firebird Project proudly announces the release of Firebird 2.0 at the opening session of the fourth annual Firebird Conference in Prague, Czech Republic. Binaries are available now for 32-bit Windows, 32-bit Linux and 64-bit Linux (AMD64 and EM64T).
Rebuilt Windows kits are now available and are making their way to the mirrors.
After the release a serious error was discovered in the Windows builds for Release Candidate 5 — a library was built wrongly. The links have been temporarily removed until repaired builds are available. More details...
The Firebird 2.0 RC5 kits have been released and are making their way to the surface right now. It will take a day or two for all kits to percolate through to the mirrors so please be patient about any page errors!
Henrique Netska shares a Delphi technique he has worked out for converting data from foreign databases to Firebird.
Firebird Conference 2006 Initial Programme has been released on the Conference pages. It's a tightly-drawn selection of highly interesting topics with something for everyone. Notice that, this year, several papers will be presented on the Sunday afternoon, in advance of the Welcome session in the evening.
We are pleased to invite you to download your preferred binary kit for Firebird 2 Release Candidate 4. Though very close, this is still a field-testing release. Please check any problem areas you encountered in RC 3 and report to the Firebird-devel list without delay if something isn't working as you expect. Please note also that this release will NOT become the final one, due to an issue that appeared after these builds were made.