Firebird Weekly News #5

This is the list of firebird related news from week 21-28 June

Firebird and FirebirdClient used in IBM’s AppScan Standard Edition. Read more.
Pave Cisar is happy to announce the public release of PowerConsole v0.7.5 and
Firebird Pack for PowerConsole v0.9.1.
Embarcadero officialy announces participation on FDD.
Firebird positive feedback from customers.
Firebird V2.1.3 Release Candidate 1 is available for testing.
Firebird Centos prerelease repository announced on Philippe Makowski’s blog (firebird 2.1.3 rc1).
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Local protocol and multi-core processors and interesting situations with gbak.
Howto add job-event based plugin to Pentaho Data Integration (PDI), aka Kettle.
New php 5.2.10 firebird repository for CentOS announced.
PHP 5.3.0 RC4 repository for centos, fedora announced with firebird support.
New features in Entity Framework v4 and Firebird.

Firebird Interesting Source Patches and Commits:
MONDAY JUNE 22 2009
robocop committed 4d6d428 , d67d46e
Isolate even more the scrollable cursors-related code.
TUESDAY JUNE 23 2009
robocop committed 0bc6559
fixed CORE-1411 and CORE-1412.
WEDNESDAY JUNE 24 2009
hvlad committed 90808fa
Fixed bug CORE-2268 : GFIX causes BUGCHECK errors with non valid transaction numbers.
hvlad committed 8423160
Fixed bug CORE-2523 : gfix reports "unknown ISC error 0" in some cases.
hvlad committed b3c3c6d , 03d1f16
New feature 2524 : Command line utility to work with Trace Service.

THURSDAY JUNE 25 2009
asfernandes committed 1f8f19f
Add fbtracemgr to POSIX builds.
robocop committed be7d835
CORE-756 and CORE-2528.
robocop committed 3b45dd2
Convert goto into a for() loop.
robocop committed e0f3749
Some paranoid checks.
robocop committed 545d857
Apply the same trick as in evl.cpp for scrollable cursors' conditional code.
robocop committed ef02be0
I'm putting this strange assertion because I bet this code will never be called.
hvlad committed df5facb
Replace hard-coded array with isc_info_svc_timeout by correct endianess code.

FRIDAY JUNE 26 2009
robocop committed 8580b59
Moved DEFAULT_CLASS to constants.h;
SATURDAY JUNE 27 2009
robocop committed cdd2669
Avoid variableshadowing.
dimitr committed ed111c8
Fixed CORE-2462: 2.5 beta 1 has huge, fast-growing log files.So the bird was saved


SUNDAY JUNE 28 2009
hvlad committed 7e4a7cc
Fixed bug CORE-2532 : Incorrect size of volumes in multi volume database





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