Carlos Cantu publishes a new "quick-look" guide to Firebird's features and capabilities — Firebird 2-Minute Guide. Several non-English translations are available.
Today Jim Starkey, who led the original Vulcan fork of Firebird, announced that he has sold his Netfrastructure web software business to MySQL AB and will be taking up a full-time job as a developer for the MySQL company.
Dmitry Yemanov has assembled a list of mandatory and optional features defined by the SQL standards and marks how (or if) each one is supported by Firebird versions.
The Firebird Project is pleased to announce the release of the second Beta of Firebird 2.0, for testing. Download kits are available for Windows and Linux, including x64 Linux. Happy testing!
A new Yahoogroups list has been set up to help get Firebird developers and prospective employers in touch. It would be a good place to post if you have voluntary skills you'd like to share with the project, too. Click to go to the list's home page.
from Dmitry Yemanov (Coordinator) Currently we are preparing the Beta 2 release. The CVS tree has been tagged and the Release Notes are being updated. The binaries will be packaged soon. It was intended to release it earlier, but there were a few issues that needed fixing first. Also the final V1.5.3 release also needed to be done.
The Firebird Project is pleased to announce the Firebird 1.5.3 release, representing a year of bug fixes and minor enhancements, many back-ported from the Firebird 2.0 developments. Kits are available for Windows and Linux.
The Firebird Project is pleased to announce the (hopefully final) release candidate for the forthcoming Firebird 1.5.3 release, for testing.
Issue #3 of Aleksey Kovjazin's magazine for Firebird and InterBase developers is now out, a free download from www.ibdeveloper.com. The lead article this time is from Roman Rokytskyy, on full-text searching. This issue also describes a TPC test system being built by Aleksey and his team, for use by everyone interested.
Roman Rokytskyy announces the Jaybird sub-release v.2.0.1, that fixes a bug that caused a null pointer exception.