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Firebird 2.1.0 (Windows Build)
====================================
*** Alpha 1 ***
o Introduction
o Intended Users
o Features in this release (all platforms)
o Bugs fixed in this release
o Installation
o Reporting Bugs
Introduction
============
Welcome to the first Alpha release of Firebird 2.1
Intended Users
==============
This alpha release is intended for experienced Firebird
users. It has not been thoroughly tested and new
features are only sparsely documented. Do not use this
release in a production environment.
Features in this release
========================
Apart from numerous bug fixes there are several major
new features in this release. In no particular order
they are:
o Text blob compatibility with varchars
o Database Triggers (connect, disconnect)
o Transaction Triggers (start/commit/rollback)
o Use of domains for Trigger/SP variable definition
o Numerous monitoring facilities available via
SQL statements
o Global temporary tables
o Query termination
o Unicode collations
o MERGE and UPDATE or INSERT statements
o Support for chinese characters via GBK
o Common table expressions
o Aggregate concatenation function
o Character set TIS620
o 64-bit builds for Windows
There are also many more enhancements. You can browse
a summary of changes via the bug tracker here:
http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10000&styleName=Html&version=10041
Improvements and New features are listed after the
bug fixes.
Full documentation is not yet available. (This is
by design.) Full feature freeze will only occur when
we go to beta. In the meantime, the doc directory and
the doc\sql.extensions directory have some raw
documentation on how to use some of the new features.
Installation
============
A binary installer will not be available before beta 1.
Please use the install_<server>.bat batch file to
install this package. There is more info on
manual installation in doc\install_windows_manually.txt
Reporting Bugs
==============
Before you report a bug:
o Check you know how Firebird works.
Maybe it is not a bug at all.
o Perhaps some has already reported this? Browse
existing bug reports here:
http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/secure/BrowseProject.jspa
o If in doubt why not discuss the problem on the
Firebird-devel list? You can subscribe here:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
and the list is viewable via a newsgroup interface
here:
news://news.atkin.com/
Please don't use the Firebird-devel list for technical
support unless the question specifically relates to a
new feature in Firebird 2.1
Happy Testing!
From the Firebird team.