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Firebird 2.1.0 (Windows Build)
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*** Beta 1 ***
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o Introduction
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o Intended Users
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o Features in this release (all platforms)
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o Bugs fixed in this release
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o Installation
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o Reporting Bugs
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Introduction
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Welcome to the first beta release of Firebird 2.1
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Intended Users
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This beta release is intended for experienced Firebird
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users. It has not been thoroughly tested and new
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features are only sparsely documented. Do not use this
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release in a production environment.
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Features in this release
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Apart from numerous bug fixes there are several
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major new features in Firebird 2.1. In no particular
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order they are:
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o Text blob compatibility with varchars
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o Database Triggers (connect, disconnect)
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o Transaction Triggers (start/commit/rollback)
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o Use of domains for Trigger/SP variable definition
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o Numerous monitoring facilities available via
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SQL statements
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o Global temporary tables
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o Query termination
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o Unicode collations
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o MERGE and UPDATE or INSERT statements
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o Support for chinese characters via GBK
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o Common table expressions
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o Aggregate concatenation function
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o Character set TIS620
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o 64-bit builds for Windows
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There are also many more enhancements. You can browse
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a summary of changes via the bug tracker here:
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http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10000&styleName=Html&version=10041
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Improvements and New features are listed after the
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bug fixes.
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We are in the process of documenting the new features
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and you can read more about them in the release notes.
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Installation
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Binary installation package are available, but they do
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not yet support multiple service instance installation.
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Neither are they fully 64-bit ready. The known
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limitations are discussed in installation_readme.txt.
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You can also use the zip packages to install Firebird
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manually. There is more info on manual installation
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in doc\install_windows_manually.txt.
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Reporting Bugs
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Before you report a bug:
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o Check you know how Firebird works.
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Maybe it is not a bug at all.
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o Perhaps some has already reported this? Browse
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existing bug reports here:
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http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/secure/BrowseProject.jspa
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o If in doubt why not discuss the problem on the
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Firebird-devel list? You can subscribe here:
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http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
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and the list is viewable via a newsgroup interface
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here:
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news://news.atkin.com/
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Please don't use the Firebird-devel list for technical
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support unless the question specifically relates to a
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new feature in Firebird 2.1
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Happy Testing!
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From the Firebird team.
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