BRAVO! Congratulations....and thanks to all the hard working members of the
firebird team.

rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pavel Cisar" <pcisar@...>
To: <Ib-support@yahoogroups.com>; <IBDI@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 12:31 PM
Subject: [IBDI] ANN: Firebird 1.0.0 Release Candidate 1


> Hi all,
>
> The Firebird project is proud to announce the availability of Firebird
> relational database engine version 1.0.0 - Release Candidate 1.
>
> Currently the win32 and linux binaries are available, other platforms
> are expected to join them in the near future.
>
> This release was built from code which has been subjected to
> extensive cleanup, bug-fixing and beta testing during the year
> between the release of the code and this release. The On-Disk
> Structure is still ODS 10. Certain enhancements requiring changes
> to the ODS have been deferred to a future release.
>
> Here is the short list of enhancements included in this release.
> Complete list of all new features, enhancements and bugfixes is
> included in each distribution package in doc subdirectory. Separate
> package that contains these information is also available.
>
> General enhancements:
> - Enhanced dependency checking
> - Large database file support
> - Engine support for 64-bit file I/O
> - Support for 16-kb pages
> - Expressly define external file location(s)
> - Win32 Forced Writes defaul=ON
> - Limit raised on External Table handles (NT)
> - External files now closed when external table is droped
> - CPU_AFFINITY configuration parameter
> - Connection now defaults to port 3050
> - Connection to server listening on a specific port
> - Added -NONAGLE switch for Linux ports
> - Additions and changes to isc_info_database
>
> Language enhancements:
> - CURRENT_USER and CURRENT_ROLE
> - DROP GENERATOR
> - GROUP BY UDF
> - RECREATE PROCEDURE and RECREATE TABLE
> - SELECT [FIRST x][SKIP y]
> - SUBSTRING built-in function
> - New PLANONLY option for statements
> - Allow FK indexes to be disabled
> - Case insensitive Hungarian Collation set
> - New comment marker for scripts
>
> API Enhancements:
> - Enhancements to isc_database_info
>
> Last minute installation notes for Linux:
>
> RPM packages were built and tested on SuSE 7.2. They should
> also fit to other distributions, especially the Classic one, but you
> may experience some problems with initd (superserver) or
> inetd/xinetd (classic) integration. If you're concerned about this
> issue, you should rather download the tar.gz package as it's more
> interactive, and it's more suitable to sort out possible problems in
> installation scripts. Anyway, we'd like to hear from you about all
> installation problems.
>
>
> We hope you'll enjoy the experience
> The Firebird team
>
>
> There is nothing wrong with InterBase
> that Firebird can't fix for you
> http://www.firebirdsql.org
>
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