Releasing V1.5.2 - preparing the text

From firebird generals

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[ED: it's about preparing good text for rc5 release]

Actually if you wait a little bit, we can use V1.5.2 not RC5, as we are in the process
of releasing V1.5.2 at the moment, so anybody has any "text" that they would like to see
in this announcement, it would be much appreciated.

Regards
Paul

YAFS (Yet another Firebird site)

Let me introduce a humble project everythingfirebird
[ED: I think we have competition :)]

When I searched for Firebird, there was very little information
available and outside of documentation and some articles the project
did not seem to have much publicity. I started the site (in blog
format) to collect all the news and developer-related information.

I will try to make the best effort to make the site comprehensive for
Firebird newbies, which I consider myself to be. If anyone has any
links, code samples or press releases, feel free to send them my way.
I am also planning to post some sample code for little experimental
apps that use Firebird.

http://www.everythingfirebird.com/

OT:FireCheetah (Firebird Database in Pascal)

Funny quote of the day related to firebird :)

Subject: FireCheetah (Firebird Database for Pascal)

I was imagining the FireCheetah (Pascal version of Firebird).
Hahaha, If you make it, I promise I'll make one cheetah burning into Fire for the logo!!
I would use the pascal version, but I believe the c++ would be faster. (Hey! I'll start one war by saying it ;-)
Doesnt already exists this h2pas?
There is also another good point, no fbclient.dll would be required. Once we could just add a unit called fbclient to our aplication. (I hate those dlls)
Ok, ok, we can still do it using c++, but using pascal is easier.

Here is the full thread
And the serious stuff (fbclient.(so/dll) in pascal):
"But, I think that there are 2 options:
- take the java client and port it.
- take the .NET client and port it.
As far as I know, they are both native clients.

I suppose that the Java client is the easiest to port, because .NET may
have some constructs which will be difficult to port to FPC.

And as for porting the rest of firebird: let's see first how difficult
it is to port the java client..."

Firebird mention on NewsForge

Firebird is mentioned in the following article on NewsForge: "Database vendors are joining the open source party" by Jay Lyman
ps: yes is very small mention :(

Vote for Firebird!

Firebird is racing home in a Newsforge poll of favourite open source RDBMSs. As the pollsters themselves say "This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane." Still, it's worth voting if you haven't already done so.
Update:
We won that one :) Poll results
results

Firebird 1.5.2 RC5

Latest--and hopefully last--beta build (4731) of Firebird 1.5.2 is now available in our pre-release area for download and final testing. Updated point release notes can be read on-line or downloaded.

Please submit any problem descriptions directly to the firebird-devel list (subscribe here): we don't want beta problems in the bug tracker.

Firebird is second!

Carlos Cantu reports that one of the biggest computer publications in Brazil Info Exame puts Firebird in second place in a survey of databases. Oracle 10g was first and there was no third.

The Young Turk of Firefox

The Young Turk of Firefox, A Q & A with Blake Ross, lead architect of the Firefox browser by Keith Ward on RedmondMag.com mentions the Firebird open source database project.

IBReplicator

IBReplicator V1.5.10 and IBReplicator Beta 2.0.0.11 are available for download. Changes since the last release are available in the on-line Release Notes.

InterBase V7.5

InterBase V7.5 from Borland is available for download and trial. Note this is a 70-120MB download.

Fyracle 0.8.2 released

Fyracle 0.8.2 released
======================

Changes:

- fixed instability when using date functions (win)
- fixed instability when accessing blobs; this
issue also caused ODBC-driver errors
- fixed install issue with plsql on some linux systems
- fixed initialization failure of connector (lin)
- added suport for certain TOAD-generated syntax
- fixed a regression with nested queries
- fixed an auto-commit issue in JayBird
- upgraded the ODBC drivers to version 1.2.1
- upgraded the JDBC drivers to version 1.5.4 (lin)


Download:

The new demo installers can be downloaded from:
http://www.fyracle.org/downloads

The new Install Kit can be downloaded via:
http://www.janus-software.com/fb_buy.html


Upgrade:

The recommended upgrade procedure is to first
uninstall previous versions of Fyracle and only
then to install the new 0.8.2 release.

The uninstaller has a start menu entry on Windows
and can be found at the top of the install
directory on Linux and Windows.


Note:

The Compiere demo has Jaybird preinstalled. If
you downloaded this demo ("compiere2.zip") before
30-Nov-2004, you will need to download it again to
get rid of the "autocommit" failure reports.

Firebird V1.5.2 Release Candidate 4

Firebird V1.5.2 Release Candidate 4 is available for download and testing. Please report any issues, problems with this build to the Firebird Development list.