Firebird News

Thursday, May 26, 2005

Firebird 2.0 Alpha 2 Released

The Firebird Project is pleased to announce the release today of the second
round of Firebird 2.0 public Alpha kits for immediate download and testing.

This version of Firebird 2 is an alpha version, meant for field testing
only and not for use in production.

All changes and new features are subject to further change and/or
withdrawal in subsequent alpha and beta releases, leading up to final
release. Do not assume that databases created by or upgraded to the on-disk
structure of this alpha will be upwardly compatible with subsequent test
builds/releases.

Bugs, problems, etc. can be posted to the Field Test bug tracker or to the
Firebird Development List.



Firebird 2 release contains a large number of new features. Alpha 2
includes fixes for several problems that showed up in the testing of Alpha
1. Please read the Release Notes for more details.



Downloads of builds for Linux-i686 and Win32 are currently available here:



http://firebird.sourceforge.net/index.php?op=files&id=fb2_alpha02


Feedback, input and comments re this release will be appreciated.

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