News Archive

An attempt to explain the rationale behind Vlads fix for CORE-4100 on Paul Beach's blog.

FDB Python driver release 1.1.1 is available.

Jaybird V2.2.3 has been released. More information in the Release Notes.

Understanding (some) Firebird’s nbackup error messages (“Error (xxx) opening database file”) on Jiri Cincura's blog.

Is this the first ever web page? If not, CERN would like to know. Eggheads recreate what could be the original website. Story on the Register.

CopyCat V.3.04.0 has been released.

SQL File Import V1.2.0.24 has been released. SQL File Import is a Windows application that helps you upload data and files into your databases.

Database Workbench 4.4.0 is now available.

IBPReplicator V4.1.3 has been released and is available for download.

The manual for isql has been largely updated and tidied up and is now available online as both pdf and html documents.

FDB Python driver release 1.1 is available.

Permission denied error creating firebird embedded database in OSX on stackoverflow.

Database .NET V8.2 has been released.

FenixSQL V0.92 has been released.

Django1.5.x Firebird driver with Python 3.x support is ready for testing.

Updated Jaybird roadmap to outline the basic plans for Jaybird 2.3.

V3.2.0 of SOCI, the C++ Database Access Library has been released.

Upscene announce the beta 3 of their Advanced Data Generator 3 tool.

The Firebird Book (Second Edition) is now available as a print on demand book (at createspace) in three parts, Volume 1: Firebird Fundamentals, Volume 2: Developing with Firebird Data and Volume 3: Administering Firebird Servers and Databases.

Firebird V2.5.2 - Security Update builds for MacOS are available.

Firebird V2.1.5 - Security Update builds for MacOS are available.

IBReplicator V4.1.2 is available for download. Release Notes.

Security Updates for Firebird 2.5.2 and Firebird 2.1.5 are released. These updates address a remote stack buffer overflow discovered in the Firebird Server during March, 2013. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated user to crash the server and opens a gate for remote code execution, so it's highly recommended to upgrade your server installations.

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.0.8.

Export data from firebird database to Excel using PHP on Maciej Egermeier's blog.

Upscene announce the availability of beta 2 of Advanced Data Generator 3.

German court case confirms validity of the LGPL.

FB TraceManager V3.0 is now available.

Upscene also announce the availability of V1.2.0 of "Hopper" a Windows-based Stored Routine and Trigger Debugger, available for InterBase, Firebird and MySQL.

Upscene announce the release of beta 1 of Advanced Data Generator 3.

FDB Python driver release 1.0 is available.

Mark Rotteveel is updating the Jaybird Wiki.

Embarcadero Launches FireDAC: Enterprise Data Access for Multiple Devices.

Firebird User: HR3 in Australia.

The django-firebird (fdb driver) is now available for installing via pypi. Just run: pip install django-firebird #django

Database .NET V7.9 is available.

A new version of Gbak Scheduler is available (V1.0.11).

AnySQL Maestro V13.2 released has been released.

A new version of Jaybird for Android has been released.

ActiveRecord Firebird Adapter V0.7.5 for Rails 3.x has been released.

SplendidCRM (C# of version SugarCRM) has been ported from MSSQL to FirebirdSQL V2.5.2. A testable debug version is available at http://zeos.tetrasys.eu.

Licenses for Quaestor 7, a reporting solution for Windows with support for Firebird/InterBase, MSSQL, Oracle and MySQL, can now be acquired free of charge from quaestor-reporting.com.

My first python application on Ido Kanner's blog.

Mark Rotteveel announces the availabiity of Jaybird V2.2.2.

RIP Roger Vellacott, Passfield Systems.

Idiorm has been adapted to work with Firebird.

Who ate all the Pis? Verity Xmas wish comes true by Verity Stob on The Register.

Christian Mayer - I have ported the JDBC Driver to Android and published it on Sourceforge. Maybe this is something you might be interested in?

Upscene announce V1.1.0 of "Hopper" a Stored Procedure and Trigger Debugger.

An updated version of the IBPReplicator documentation is available. IBPReplicator41.pdf

Ricardo Obregon announces that the Firebird Adapter V1.0 RC for Yii V1.1.x has been released.

New article: The life cycle of a Firebird SQL statement.

SplendidCRM has been ported to FirebirdSQL on Le Blog du Tetrasys (en Francais).

Ricardo Obregon announces that the Firebird Adapter for Yii V1.1.x has been added to the YiiFramework extensions page.

IBProvider V3.13.3 is available.

New monitoring tool: Port Guardian by Taoman Li

An update on "Unhappy surprise: Firebird SQL's backup/restore uses magic words for stdin and stdout", Norman Dunbar has updated the Gbak manual. Gbak Caveats - Use of 'stdin' or 'stdout' File Names.

Unhappy surprise: Firebird SQL's backup/restore uses magic words for stdin and stdout on Steve Friedl's Weblog.

Firebird github mirror for SVN is working again, thanks to Adriano.

Firebird Mexican Grill: High-toned Tex-Mex meets modern Mex mentions the Firebird database (its a little strange).

TurboBird V0.9.8 has been released.

TurboBird V0.9.6 is available.

IBPhoenix would like to wish all Firebird users and developers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Database .NET 7.6.4741 has been released.

IBReplicator V4.1.1 is available for download. For changes please read the release notes.

New Firebird user: Cocemfe Toledo Multiple Services, S.L. (CTS) (Spanish).

The python fdb driver will be in the Debian repository shortly. It will be maintained by Philippe Makowski (the driver is already packaged for Mageia, Fedora, RHEL and FreeBSD).

Firebird-Mezzanine = Firebird and Django’s WordPress alternative : Mezzanine on Mariuz's blog

Firebird User: Univex Software.

Zany adventures with Zarco and Marco by Verity Stob on The Register.

Firebird default character set by Mark Rotteveel on Stack Overflow.

The Firebird SQL source code is now online via the Woboq Codebrowser.

dbExpress Driver for Firebird V39 is available.

FDB Firebird Python Driver V0.9.9 has been released.

IBPReplicator V4.1 has been released. Details of the new features.

Interesting reading. Ten... technology FAILS - Tech that might have revolutionised your life but you have now completely forgotten on The Register.

Firebird ADO .NET provider V3.0.2 has been released.

Can not load default Firebird client (“libfbembed.so” or “libgds.so”). Check your installation. Blog post on Free Pascal Answers.

IBReplicator second beta test is available. An evaluation key, valid for two weeks, can be accessed via the following web page.

Latest Firebird V2.5.2 stable builds are available for all supported Ubuntu releases.

If you are currently using Firebird V2.5.0 or V2.5.1 this is probably a good reason to update to Firebird V2.5.2. See CORE-3884.

Node-Firebird 0.1.1 has been released.

Database Workbench 4.3.2 has been released.

Philippe Makowski announces that the Firebird 2.5.2 packages for Fedora, RedHat Enterprise Linux and Mageia have been uploaded into the testing repositries.

FBClone V2.2.1 has been released.

Debian and raspberry pi = love , a small ARM Firebird super server on Mariuz's blog.

Firebird Database Events and Message-oriented Middleware on Habari! Blog.

Firebird V2.5.2 has been released and is available for download.

The beta version of the IBPhoenix Replicator V4.1 is now available for public testing. Documentation in PDF format. An evaluation key, valid for two weeks, can be accessed via the following web page on ibphoenix.com.

Node-firebird V0.1.0 released with major api changes.

How to create a new empty FireBird database using FreePascal/Lazarus.

The Sparky from the Firebird Conference (Bergamot, Italy 2008) is up for auction on e-bay.

FB TraceManager V2.6.1 has been released.

SQLAlchemy 0.8.0b1 has been released with support for the fdb python driver.

Dimitry Yemanov's Firebird Conference 2012 sessions are now available on the official YouTube channel.

Database .NET 7.4 has been released.

Jiri Cincura announces that the ADO.NET provider 3.0.0 for Firebird and DDEX provider 3.0.0 for Firebird has been released.

Django V1.5 alpha driver for Firebird has been updated.

True SMP support for SuperServer [CORE-775] resolved for Firebird 3.0 Alpha 1.

Firebird Ohloh page has been updated.

Jiri Cincura's sessions at the Firebird Conference 2012.

Jaybird survey results - by Mark Rotteveel.

dbExpress Driver for Firebird V37 is available.

FB TraceManager V2.6.0 has been released.

FDB Python driver for Firebird version 0.9.1 was released.

TurboBird Beta Version 0.9.4 has been released.

Pure javascript and asynchronous Firebird client for Node.js - V0.06 is available.

Jaybird V2.2.1 Has been released.

A list of the talks that will be given at the Firebird conference in Luxembourg (26/27th Oct 2012) is now avaiable online.

The Perl Firebird driver "DBD-Firebird 1.11" has been released.

Database Workbench 4.3.1 Free Lite Editions released.

The SqlAlchemy Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper has added experimental dialect for the Firebird python driver and need help in testing it.

Firebird Adapter for Rails 3.x (0.7.2) has been released.

Firebird Embedded on MacOSX on Paul Beach's blog.

Some news about the development of django-firebird from Maximiliano Robaina.

The Jaybird team would like to invite developers and users of Jaybird to fill out a survey on your use of Jaybird (the Firebird JDBC driver). You can find the survey at http://infopoll.net/live/surveys/s36021.htm. The results of the survey will be used to decide where to focus development of the upcoming Jaybird versions.

Default transanction isolation level in PHP for Firebird on Jiri Cincura's blog

Firebird V2.5.2 Release Candidate 1 is available for download and testing.

CORE-3740 and Firebird V2.5.2 on Paul Beach's blog.

Firebird DDEX provider 2.0.6 with Visual Studio 2012 support has been released.

Quaestor 7, a reporting software solution for Windows (standalone and web-based) with Firebird/InterBase support is now available.

Do you want Firebird to be part of XAMPP?

Firebird Conference 2012 October 26-27th - Luxembourg. Call for papers - please send talk/presentation proposals to Paul Beach if you'd like to present a paper there.

DataArchitect (an emerging enterprise database design tool) V4.3 is now available.

SQL Maestro Group announce the release of Firebird PHP Generator V12.8.

Database Workbench V4.3.1 is now available.

Is MySQL Slowly Turning Closed Source? on Slashdot.

Database Workbench V4.3 has been released.

Five Non-Mainstream Databases for PHP Apps – Part 2 on New Relic looks at Gladius DB and Firebird.

SQL database reporting solution which currently has beta Firebird support is available as a free download.

FBConfig V2.0 has been released.

The Jaybird code repository has now beem migrated to Subversion. The code is now available at https://firebird.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/firebird/client-java.

Intellicus Reporting now supports Firebird.

CurrentWare AccessPatrol Review on PCMag.com mentions Firebird.

Upscene Productions announces V1.0.3 of "Hopper" (a Windows-based Stored Routine and Trigger Debugger).

Upscene announce updated versions of IB LogManager V2.12.0 and FB TraceManager V2.5.4.

The libjaybird22.so (Linux x86) and libjaybird22_64.so (Linux x64) included in the Jaybird 2.2.0 download are incorrectly linked (libstdc++ and libdl are missing from the symbol table).

This manifests itself when the native or embedded protocol is used (jdbc:firebirdsql:native or jdbc:firebirdsql:embedded). The resulting error is UnsatisfiedLinkError occurs in libjaybird22_x64.so undefined symbol: _ZTVN10__cxxabiv117__class_type_infoE

This error does not occur on all systems. Correctly linked versions of libjaybird are attached to http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/JDBC-259

The next release of Jaybird will include correctly linked versions of this library.

FINA Online (using Firebird 2.5 with Zebedee 2.5.3) on Technology Journal (Albert Anthony's blog).

Django 1.4 Firebird support is available for testing.

JbConsole (a management tool written in Jython) has been updated.

Jaybird V2.2.0 has been released and is available for download

Upscene announce V1.0.2 of "Hopper". Hopper is a Windows-based Stored Routine and Trigger Debugger, available for InterBase, Firebird and MySQL.

Importing and Exporting Data across Firebird Databases on Dick Chiang's blog.

Fun with Firebird Database Default Credentials by Tony Lee on the Open Security Research blog.

Firebird 2.0.x series has been discontinued. According to its release lifetime policy, the Firebird Project notes that the Firebird V2.0 series has reached the end of its life and will not be maintained anymore. The last official release in this series is Firebird 2.0.7, which was announced earlier this year. However if you want support for your legacy installations, you can still contact us!

FDB Python Firebird driver V0.8.5 is released.

Firebird: connecting to an embedded server on Fulvio Senore's blog Accounting++.

CakePHP & FireBird SQL on Sam Delaney's blog.

Firebird V2.1.5 has been released.

From Thomas Steinmaurer. Two new Trace API (FB TraceManager) screencasts are available. The first discusses using the Trace API to detect parameterized query usage. The second covers the new error/warning tracing capabilities that will be in Firebird V2.5.2.

Hopper (stored procedure debugger) V1.0.1 has been released by Upscene.

Firebird on virtual servers anyone? a discussion on linked in.

An ODBC driver for Firebird on MacOSX on Paul Beach's blog.

SQL Maestro Group announce the release of Firebird Data Wizard V12.6.

FB TraceManager V2.5.3 has been released.

Database Workbench 4.2.4 Free Lite Editions have been released.

FDB Python Firebird driver V0.8.0 is released.

Python Firebird driver FDB v0.8.0 has been released with support for Firebird Event notifications.

A few words about the shared memory and files on Dimitry Yemanov's blog.

Node.js Firebird a pure Javascript driver is now ready for testing.

ADO.NET provider for Firebird V2.7.7 has been released.

Disabling database triggers in FirebirdClient on Jiri Cincura's blog.

Firebird 2.1.5 Release Candidate 1 is available for download and testing.

new fdb firebird driver example :execute insert statement on Mariuz's blog.

Database Workbench V4.2.4 has been released.

Upscene announce V1 of a new product called Hopper. Hopper is a Stored Routine and Trigger Debugger, currently available for Firebird only, an InterBase and MySQL version will follow soon. More details.

Work is in progress for Firebird support within libgda.

DSQL/BLR compilers internals on Adriano dos Santos Fernandes blog.

Upscene Productions announce the 4th public beta of “Hopper" - a Stored Procedure Code Debugger.

MVC 4 / Firebird / EF 4.1 and Database First on John Tomaselli's blog

FB TraceManager V2.5.2 has been released.

Firebird V2.0.7 has been released.

Jaybird V2.2 Beta 1 is available. This release contains the following changes: Enhanced support for JDBC 4.0 (Java 6), Support for JDBC 4.1 (Java 7, including try-with-resources support), Implementation of getGeneratedKeys(), Enhanced support for the services API, Support for 64 bit native libraries for Type 2 / Embedded, A number of bug fixes.

Differences between recreate procedure… and create or alter procedure… on Jiri Cincura's blog.

Shorter Firebird queries from Entity Framework on Jiri Cincura's blog.

Rails driver rubyfb V0.6.7 has been released.

Firebird ADO.NET provider V2.7.5 has been released

The official Firebird driver FDB release V0.7.2 has been released with support for Python 3 and distributed transactions.

How to install Firebird 3? on the Firebird3 blog.

Firebird vs Windows: file-system caching issue on Dimitry Yemanov's blog.

Upscene Productions announces a new release of "Hopper" a Stored Routine and Trigger Debugger (public beta 3).

Python Firebird driver PyFirebirdSQL 0.6.6 has been released.

Database Workbench V4.2.3 has been released.

Node.js Firebird driver V0.0.9 has been released.

Version 2.0.1 of the Firebird ODBC Driver is now available for download.

The Firebird project roadmap has been updated slightly.

Record batching on Dimitry Yemanov's blog.

Database Workbench V4.2.2 has been released.

FB TraceManager V2.5.1 has been released.

IBReplicator V4.0.9 is available for download.

Firebird V2.0.7 Release Candidate 1 is available for download.

Hopper (Beta 2) (a Firebird Stored Procedure and Trigger Debugger) is available.

More information on the contents of the new Firebird Book: a Reference for Database Developers (Edition II) can be found here.

The Firebird Book: a Reference for Database Developers - Edition II (beta) is now available in electronic format on IBPhoenix's 20th Developer DVD.

The Firebird Python driver FDB 0.7.1 ported to P3K

you can grab it here (tag is v0.1), next step : merge into FDB upstream

Upscene announce the availability of the beta version of Hopper (a Firebird Stored Procedure and Trigger Debugger).

Firebird: choosing an owner for database deployment on the Acounting++ blog.

Building Firebird 2.0.7 on MacOSX - the moddi3 problem on Paul Beach's blog.

How to upload files into a Firebird database using Free Pascal/Lazarus and How to download files from database using Free Pascal/Lazarus on the freepascalanswers blog.

Kitto – A framework for creating data-driven web applications using Delphi and ExtJS. The getting started guide can be tested using Firebird and Delphi.

V2.5.0 of FB TraceManager has been released.

Database Workbench 4.2.1 has been released.

Ruby driver and RoR adapter Rubyfb V0.6.2 has been released.

Firebird User Case Study: wobe-systems

Ruby driver and RoR adapter Rubyfb v0.6.2 released

EFI (Electronics For Imaging, Inc.) uses Firebird in their Fiery Command Workstation product?

An initial release of a Firebird database adapter for Zope2

Mindwrap Releases FiledRight Document Management System on prMac mentions Firebird.

Q&A with Jiri Cincura of the Firebird Database Project on InfoQ.

Firebird speed RUBY vs DELPHI vs .NET on ramsees.blogspot.com.

DBInfo - Another IBSurgeon free tool.

Delphi and Firebird: Marco Cantu’s webinar on youtube. Marco Cantu speaks about the best practices and approaches to develop Firebird and Delphi applications using a dbExpress framework.

FBClone V2.1.4 has been released.

The Sons of Khan and the Pascal Spring by Verity Stob on The Register.

Using Embedded Firebird Database In .Net Projects on Nazmi Altun's blog.

IBSurgeon Log Viewer: A free tool to view and analyze the firebird.log is available for download.

IBReplicator V4.0.8 has been released. For more information.

Value of particular column from all (some) tables in database dynamically in Firebird on Jiri Cincura's blog.

Accessing Firebird Embedded databases from Data Abstract for .NET by Anton Kasyanov on REM Objects Software blogs.

PHP 5.3.9 has been released and contains the relevant PDO Firebird updates.

Monitoring your Firebird database with FBTraceManager by Thomas Steinmaurer will be presented to the next ADUG (Australian Delphi User Group) meeting in Sydney on Wednesday 18th January 2012 at 6:00 PM Sydney time. There will be a livestream via GoToMeeting available.

Firebird Roadmap has been updated for January 2012.

Official FirebirdSQL channel on YouTube with videos from the Firebird Conferencein Luxembourg 2011

You can now find the list of presentations and videos of the Firebird Conference in Luxembourg 2011 at the official Firebird channel on SlideShare.com and YouTube.com. You can find here the list of presentations with available options.

Ricardo Obregón has published the php pdo driver in the Arch Linux Repository.

The IBPhoenix team would like to wish all Firebird users and developers a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Initial release (0.7.0) of new Python driver for Firebird - FDB is ready for testing

FB TraceManager V2.0.8 has been released.

Using Firebird ISQL to create embedded database files on the The code should be silent blog.

Why is Firebird better DBMS than Oracle? From Norman Dunbar on .backwardcompatible.net.

ADO.NET provider V2.7 for Firebird has been released.

The Programming Works - Hierarchical database structures and Firebird PSQL.

Sorting using blob column on Firebird on Jiri Cincura's blog

Thomas Steinmaurers article on the new Firebird 3 window functions published in the Entwickler magazine is now available as a download (pdf - German language only).

Database Workbench V4.2 is available.

Python Firebird driver pyfirebirdsql 0.6.4 has been released.

The future for the Firebird Python driver...

Jason Wharton writes about the Firebird Conference in Luxembourg.

FB Trace Manager V2.07 has been released.

node.js Firebird driver V0.0.8 has been released with experimental support for node on Windows.

Perl Firebird Driver (DBD-Firebird 0.91) has been released with some minor fixes.

Pictures from the Firebird Conference on Facebook.

Turbo Bird is a Firebird Administration tool...

Riders of the Bearded Sage - Is that a dead parrot in your pocket, or are you just trying to please me? By Verity Stob on the Register.

Tel Aviv Perl Mongers Meeting on 30 November, 2011 includes the following talk, "Firebird: a database that does not burn your data" (by ik). An introduction to the Firebird database and to why it is so highly-regarded by those who use it.

FB TraceManager V2.0.5 has been released.

Delphi, Firebird, IBObjects and Transaction Management on Steve's Blog.

IBReplicator V4.0.7 is available for download.

FB Trace Manager V2.02 has been released.

Main topics at the Firebird Conference 2011.

The node.js Firebird driver (0.0.7) has been released with support for node 0.6.0.

What is new in .NET provider (trace support, cancellation and more) talk on Firebird Conference 2011 on Jiri Cincura's blog.

FB TraceManager V2.0.1 has been released. This release fixes memory leaks and improves stability.

How you can use Node.js to catch events on Firebird on King Foo's blog.

The Python Firebird driver pyfirebirdsql V0.6.1 has been released.

Perl Firebird Driver – DBD-Firebird V0.90 has been released.

FB TraceManager V2.0.0 has been released.

Python Firebird driver pyfirebirdsql 0.6.0 has been released.

Firebird Conference: A list of the most interesting talks is now available.

Part II of Thomas Steinmaurers series of papers on Firebird V3 feautures - DDL triggers can be downloaded (German).

The current edition of the "BI Spektrum" magazine has an article by Thomas Steinmaurer with a case study on techniques for pre-aggregating data in a Data Warehouse using Firebird as relational backend. (German)

RIP Dennis Ritchie. Obituary on The Register.

dbExpress Driver for Firebird V35 is available.

Firebird 2.5.1 Final packages are available in the Debian Sid repository.

The various command line manuals – gfix, gstat, gsec, gbak and fbmgr – have been updated to Firebird 2.5 specifications.

Ruby Sequel V3.28.0 has been released with a number of Firebird improvements.

Firebird 2.5.1 packages are now available in Fedora 15 updates Epel6 (RHEL and Centos 6) packages are in testing for one more week according to the Epel policy. About Mageia 1 they will be in updates soon. For Mandriva they are in Cooker.

dbExpress Driver for Firebird V.34 is available.

Firebird 2.5.1 improves database restore performance on the H Open.

Firebird Conference 2011, November 25-26th, Luxembourg. Call for papers.

Firebird V2.5.1 is available for download.

Centric Unveils Hybrid Enterprise Content Management System mentions the use of Firebird

E-mail anonymization in Firebird on Piotr Jankowski's blog.

Episode 1: Fishbowl Security Basics mentions Firebird.

Perl driver DBD::Firebird 0.7.0 has been released

Firebird Users: MusiCHI Suite uses Firebird

Firebird Case Study: Point of Sale Systems for the Carwash Industry.

Firebird Perl DBI driver V0.60 has been released.

Dutch and English nbackup manuals have been updated.

Firebird Case Study: Moscow City Hospital #31

Firebird V2.5.1 RC1 MacOSX 32bit builds are available for download.

Firebird Users: Citrix EdgeSight uses Firebird. On this blog there is a reference to the directory where Firebird is installed.

Pyfirebirdsql (Firebird driver for Python 3.x) V0.5 has been released.

Pyfirebirdsql : things to do from Philippe Makowski.

Updated 64bit Firebird V2.5 MacOSX builds are available that work properly on MacOSX 10.7 (Lion)

Firebird V2.5.1 RC1 MacOSX builds are available for download.

Firebird Classic V2.1.4 for HPUX 11 (PA-Risc) has been releasd and is available for download.

Firebird V2.1.4 builds are available for Solaris (intel) 32bit and 64bit.

New tool for regular and comfortable backup of FireBird databases: Firebird Database Backup 1.0.

Updated SuperServer builds for Firebird 2.1.4 on MacOSX are available. These builds fix a problem on startup with MacOSX 10.7 (Lion).

Firebird V2.5.1 Release Candidate 1 is available. MacOSX release is delayed due to issues with MacOSX 10.7 (Lion).

You DON'T need CPUAffinity, nBackup, shadow and multifile databases on IBSurgeons blog.

Migration from Firebird V1.5 to V2.5 - A 75Gb database with 564 tables and 5000+ procedures

Here lies /^v.+b$/i Which programming language to use on one's headstone? By Verity Stob on The Register.

firebirdsql V0.4.4 Firebird bindings for python. Available.

Thomas Steinmaurer - In German only - Part 1 of his Firebird 3 preview article series is available as a download (pdf).

Linux Journal - The 17th annual Readers Choice Awards are under way!

IBReplicator V4.0.6 has been released and is available for download. More details in the release notes.

Database Workbench V4.1.3 has been released

67 Open Source Replacements for Really Expensive Applications on Datamation. "Firebird Replaces Microsoft SQL Server Standard ($7,171 per processor)".

FirebirdClient on NuGet on Jiri Cincura's blog.

The Case of the Disappearing Rows on Steve's Blog, loading 884K rows takes 3 hours on Firebird, 8 hours on SQL Server.

XMLWizard 1.1.0 released - an easy way to import data for Firebird.

Brazil - 8th Firebird Developers Day - Report.

Some photos from the Firebird Developers Day in Brazil (FirebirdSQL Facebook page)

Problem with Firebird V2.5 SuperServer and MacOSX 10.7 (Lion)... Read More.

Firebird User: Auralia. Firebird is mentioned on page 10 of the install guide.

FB TraceManager 1.6 is available

IB LogManager V2.11.1 has been released.

How to find SQL queries which use bad index? on the IBSurgeon blog.

Centos 6 is released and Firebird V2.5 is already in the EPEL repository.

Centos 5.X – Build Firebird / Interbase (extension and PDO extension) support into PHP

Firebird V2.1 Error: value exceeds the range for valid dates on Paul Beach's blog.

IBReplicator V4.0.5 has been released and is available for download. For more information on whats been fixed.

Firebird Random Data Generator. More information, or download.

Mono Firebird Example updated for Mono 2.6/2.10.x release on Mariuz's blog.

Perl DBI driver for Firebird V0.53 has been released.

firebirdsql V0.4.2 is available (Firebird bindings for python).

The German "Entwickler Magazin" contains the first part of a three part series about new features in Firebird 3.0 written by Thomas Steinmaurer.

Firebird User: Specialized Business Software

The Firebird V2.5 Language Reference Update is available either as html or pdf format.

Mageia 1 a Firebird friendly new distribution on Philippe Makowski's blog.

New look and feel to the Firebird main web site.

Firebird Eclipse DTP Plugin V1.0.2 has been released.

woodsmailbox posted the follwing to the firebird-tools list "I made Firebird packages for Tiny Core Linux if anyone is using it. They are based on the official binaries and using improved start/stop scripts and the layout supports multiple instances. You can see them here. Build scripts available here.

V2.6.5 of the ADO.NET provider for Firebird is available for download (half maintenance release, half new features). Bug fixes New features and improvements are support for the Trace API in Firebird 2.5, Improvements in SQL generation for the Entity Framework and support for command logging. Slightly faster execution of big queries and other improvements making it more stable...

Status of PHP PDO_Firebird as of May 2011 on gn0s1s' blog.

Verity Stob and the super subjunction on The Register

Firebird User: Epix Systems Ltd.

Fishbowl Inventory C# .NET Intergration on Zach Hunter's Busy Life blog mentions Firebird.

Upscene announce the availability of FBTraceManager V1.5.2

Firebird Nagios plugin - check_firebird.py on General-Foo.

Firebird User: Hivos

Improved command logging in ADO.NET provider for Firebird on Jiri Cincura's blog.

The Little PowerBuilder App that Grew on Sys-Con Media mentions Firebird.

IBX For Lazarus (Firebird Express) from MWA Software.

Chau Chee-Yang's dbExpress Driver for Firebird V33 is available.

Running a database query which automates Word in a background thread on No'am Newman's blog.

Firebird 3.0 - Shared Page Cache posted by Vlad Horsun on the Firebird Development List.

Getting database script from DbContext (Code First) on Jiri Cincura's blog.

Amazon’s EC2 Micro Instance and Firebird on Jiri Cincura's blog.

Firebird and booleans: one more hurdle on the TURBU Tech blog.

Tokenize string in SQL (Firebird syntax) on Jiri Cincura's blog.

We need attention of beta-testers for the documentation section for the new Firebird web site. Please look through Documentaion section, try to find your favorite documents/guides/articles and report any problems you find to the bug tracker.

TURBU - The Ultimate Rpg BUilder is now using Firebird.

Adding boolean support to Firebird+DBX on the TURBU Tech blog.

Python driver firebirdsql V0.4.1 has been released

First unstable release of a Firebird driver for Kohana (a web application framework for PHP5).

Firebird PHP Generator V11.4 has been released

Using Firebird inside Azure on Jiri Cincura's blog.

Firebird on Linux and ICU > 4.2 on Philippe Makowski's blog.

Firebird and ICU > 4.2, Centos 6 alternative on Philippe Makowski's blog.

Some thoughts on denormalization on Jiri Cincura's blog

Firebird Users: AVG Anti-Virus Business Edition 2011 uses Firebird.

Firebird User: Firebird is used in Citrix EdgeSight Database Agent Server.

Firebird User: Benguet State University

XOOPS V2.5 (with support for Firebird)... read the comments.

Sqlmap V0.9 is released with support for Firebird

Chau Chee-Yang's dbExpress Driver for Firebird version number 32 is available.

Firebird fixed! on No'am Newman's blog.

Firebird V2.0 ODBC Driver has been released.

firebirdsql 0.3.4 the pure Python driver for Firebird is available.

Thomas Steinmaurer's article "Audit und Trace Services in Firebird 2.5" originally published in the Entwickler Magazin is available for download (.pdf). Note the article is in German.

firebirdsql 0.3.3 the pure Python driver for Firebird is available, and is also packaged into Magiea too.

OAT and MON$ - How to get the attachment with the Oldest Active Transaction via the Monitoring Tables on Paul Beach's blog.

dbExpress Driver V31 for Firebird by Chau, Chee-Yang is available.

HPUX Oracle and Itanium on Paul Beach's blog.

Database Workbench 4.1.2 Pro has been released.

What will be the new firebirdsql web site needs testers and proofreaders. Please post issues found on the tracker under the web section. Any questions?

perl-DBD-Firebird rpm package is in Mageia, first distro with the new Firebird perl driver

FB TraceManager V1.5.1 is available.

fb and fb_adapter are packaged into Mageia, first distribution with packages for Ruby and Rails (Active Record driver)

Firebird V2.5 will be in the next Ubuntu Linux (Natty 11.04)

Firebird User: Bosch & Sohn (Germany) use Firebird.

Firebird User: G&K Medical Systems (Germany) Pergamon-MED software uses Firebird.

Firebird V2.1.4 - Packages for Mandriva are now in Contrib/testing for Mandriva 2010,2.

Firebird V2.1.4 MacOSX 32bit PowerPC builds are now available for download.

Firebird V2.1.4 has now been released for Debian unstable.

Entity Framework v4.1 Code First and Firebird on Jiri Cincura's blog.

From Philippe Makowski: Firebird V2.1.4 packages for Fedora 13 and 14 and for RHEL4 and 5 and other derivatives (Centos, Scientific Linux) have been pushed into Fedora and Epel repositories. Packages for Mandriva will be avilable soon.

Firebird Foundation: Ansoft Development Ltd, of the Russian Federation, producer of the Avarda range of products, is now a Silver sponsor.

Firebird V2.1.4 has been released and is available for download.

Firebird Bitweaver Windows and PHP on meta.com.au

New Firebird Foundation Bronze Sponsor - Cointec Consultores Informática, Spain.

Php5 and Firebird pdo on Ubuntu/Debian on Mariuz's blog.

Get Started with QT and Embedded FireBird on Tech-Seeker Blog.

New hotfixes available for Delphi XE, C++Builder XE and RAD Studio XE - This fix corrects the error caused when reading an ftMemo field twice using the InterBase or Firebird dbExpress driver.

IBProvider V3.6. New interfaces for rowset and new metadata schema.

Using the same mapping for Firebird and Sql Server from Fluent NHibernate on Kristian Kristensen’s Blog.

Firebird Maestro V11.2 is available.

Converting a MySQL database to Firebird on BackwardCompatible.net

Interesting Article: Is this the start of the second dotcom bubble? On The Guardian.

Multiple Firebird Servers on Ubuntu

It has been found that V2.5 Classic for Linux has problems with AST delivery if used with glibc 2.5. With glibc 2.7 it works properly. The situation with glibc 2.6 is unknown for now. If your glibc version is lower than 2.7, Please upgrade before using Firebird V2.5 Classic/Superclassic.

Database Workbench V4.1.1 has been released.

Firebird User: MailStore Server Edition by deepinvent Software GmbH

Not Firebird related: Joy Division get the Playmobil treatment on The Register

Virtual Laboratory - a test engineer portal that uses Firebird on Bartosz Kosarzycki's blog.

Flamerobin has been rebuilt by Philippe Makowski for Fedora Linux 15 and 16

Forced Writes? On Paul Beach's blog.

DEC founder Ken Olsen is dead - Silence at the Mill - on The Register

Support for Firebird is being improved in Kevora

Firebird V2.1.3 is included in Debian 6.0 stable.

Capture unauthorized data access in Firebird 2.5 with the Trace API and FB TraceManager (Video) on Thomas Steinmaurers blog.

Firebird V2.1.4 Release Candidate 1 is available for download and testing.

Notes on installing the node.js module for Firebird on Mariuz's blog.

A short demonstration video on how to capture NATURAL SCAN statements in Firebird V2.5 with the help of FB TraceManager is available.

SQL Maestro Group announce the release of Firebird Data Wizard 11.1

A Quick Start Guide to Index Optimisation on Paul Beach's blog.

Habarisoft announces open source monitoring tool for Firebird.

FreeAdHocUDF - A comparison of functions - Oracle and Firebird.

The Firebird servers (web, tracker and wiki) are now online!

IBReplicator V4.0.4 is available. This new release of the Replication Manager fixes a problem with data field mapping.

The main Firebird web site is down. Seems there was a problem last night with an upgrade. The problem is known, and we hope to have it back online soon.

Making NOT NULL columns nullable again in Firebird on the Not So Yellow Stickies blog.

Here is the guide on installing Firebird 2.5 from FreeBSD 8.1 Ports and creating your first test database...

CMake - Install - Linux and OS X With Firebird Embedded by Fulvio Senore

The Firebird SQL linkedin Community is now an open group.

Upscene announce the availability of Database Workbench V4.1.0

IBPhoenix would like to take this opportunity to wish all Firebird developers and users a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

A free cross platform reporting application that supports Firebird is available.

Firebird V2.1 and V2.5 have finally been added to the FreeBSD ports system

An updated Firebird Book by Helen Borrie.

Introducing the boolean datatype on Adriano's blog.

Trace API support is now in the ADO.NET provider for Firebird (FbTrace) read more about it on Jiri Cincura's blog.

56 Open Source Replacements for Popular Web Development and Design Tools on Datamation mentions Firebird on page three.

PHP V5.3.4 has been released with the Firebird driver enabled (also for pdo) but only for the Visual C++ 9 builds.

Paul Vinkenoog - The Firebird 1.5, 2.0 and 2.1 Language Reference Updates have all been “heavily” updated. Taken together, some 200 sections were corrected, extended, added, or whatever.

IBReplicator V4.0.3 is available for download. Updated Release Notes.

A new version of FreeAdhocUDF is available. (St. Nicholas edition).

Firebird User: Ogdopus.

Creating a Firebird Case Study Catalogue.

Firebird User: OpenLM.

Upscene announce the release of FB TraceManager V1.5.0.

Firebird User: Freight Management System.

Firebird User: MusiCHI.

dbExpress Driver for Firebird V27 has been released and is available for download.

FreeBSD ports for Firebird 2.1. Server and Client. Successfully compiles on 7.1, 7.3, 8.0, 8.1 – i386 and amd64.

Firebird V2.5 for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid in PPA via Mariuz Popa. Install guide.

Firebird V2.5 rpms are in Fedora Rawhide (Fedora 15), on EPEL6 beta for RHEL6 and future Centos 6.

For Fedora 14 (the actual stable Fedora) see the private repository.

Is Firebird really free? on Jiri Cincura's blog.

Top 10 MySQL Mistakes Made by PHP Developers by Craig Buckler, mentions Firebird as "11. Bonus mistake — not considering other databases!"

How to install and set up a Firebird 2.5 server on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick.

ADO .NET provider V2.6.0 for Firebird has been released and is available for download.

Firebird V2.5 is on the cover of the Active Delphi magazine in Bazil.

AVG Internet Security Business Edition 2011 review, Firebird is the default database.

Firebird User: Computer Lab Solutions Releases Updates and Fixes for the Current Version of LabStats.

The Open Source Firebird (IBPhoenix) ODBC driver has been updated to Version 2.0 Release Candidate 2. Thanks to Alexander Potapchenko.

Internet passes the 100 Million Mark on Geek Gumbo, shows that Firebird is the fourth most popular database, as measured by the number of Google searches, and reported by Citrus Technology.

Jiri Cincura's comments on the Firebird Conference in Germany.

Can Firebird gain against MySQL? On Marco Cantu's blog.

A new version of FreeAdhocUDF has been released.

The Decline of MySQL? on Geek Gumbo's blog mentions Firebird.

Migrating users from Firebird V2.1 to Firebird V2.5

Users upgrading to Firebird V2.5 want to know if they can just copy the security2.fdb file from previous versions.

In theory, copying the file should work, but Firebird V2.5 uses a new ODS (On Disk Structure) (11.2). Ideally you should do a backup/restore to 2.5 to update the ODS of security2.fdb, but unfortunately some problems still remain with regard to the use of the new role RDB$ADMIN (which gives SYSDBA rights to normal users). In this case, normal users who were granted RDB$ADMIN role, have problems to using the new SQL commands to CREATE/ALTER/DROP USER. Firebird V2.5.1 (due at the end of the year) will have a sql script that will fix this problem. So, the best way to move users to 2.5 at the moment, is to recreate them either via gsec or the new CREATE USER statement.

Oracle raises prices for MySQL and removes the transactional engine InnoDB support from the free embedded "Classic" edition leaving only MyISAM. News from "The H Open"

Connecting from Android to Firebird on Jiri Cincura's blog.

Flamerobin 0.9.3 revision 2048 binary snapshots for Debian and Ubuntu are ready to install and test.

Using the Firebird V2.5 official tar.gz installer on Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat on Mariuz's blog.