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IBX 2.3.2 is now available

MWA Software is pleased to announce that release 2.3.2 of IBX for Lazarus is now available for download from https://mwasoftware.co.uk/ibx. Older versions of IBX will fail to compile with Lazarus 2.0 and upgrade to this version is necessary for use with Lazarus 2.0. All users are recommended to upgrade to the new release. Please read the changelog before upgrading. The release also includes a new SQL Tokeniser and the ability to select the Firebird Library (DLL or shared object) as a property of TIBDatabase or TIBXServicesConnection. Several minor bug fixes are also included.

The release fixes two problems with use of Lazarus 2.0:

  1. A deprecated function that is no longer supported with Lazarus 2.0 has been replaced.

  2. TIBLookupComboEditBox is derived from Lazarus TCustomDBComboBox. In Lazarus 2.0, TCustomDBComboBox takes a more restrictive view of combo boxes that do not have a DataSource. This prevents TIBLookupComboEditBox from being used to select rows in a list dataset when no DataSource is present. TIBLookupComboEditBox has been updated to include a workaround in order to restore previous functionality.

The new SQL Tokeniser has been primarily developed in order to avoid mis-identification of PSQL parameters within BEGIN..END blocks as IBX query parameters. This allows parameterised EXECUTE BLOCK statements to be supported. The new SQL Tokeniser is also used for TIBSQLParser and TIBXScript, in both cases removing duplicate code.

Both TIBDatabase and TIBXServicesConnection now include a new property "FirebirdLibraryPathName". This can be used to explicitly specify the full path to the firebird client library (DLL or shared object). For example, when the library is in a non-standard location or to avoid ambiguity when more than one library is installed. In principle, each instance of TIBDatabase or TIBXServicesConnection could use a different version of the library.

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IBX 2.3.1 is now available

This is a very minor update and ensures that IBX will compile with the latest versions of Lazarus.. Lazarus 2.0.0 is expected to remove the deprecated function "ValidUTF8String" from the LazUtils unit. This update removes all references to  ValidUTF8String. The update is backwards compatible and should also compile correctly with earlier versions of Lazarus.

Currently, the update is only available via svn - see https://mwasoftware.co.uk/svn-repository

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IBX 2.3.0 is now available

MWA Software is pleased to announce that release 2.3.0 of IBX for Lazarus is now available for download from https://mwasoftware.co.uk/ibx. All users are recommended to upgrade to the new release. Please read the changelog before upgrading.

IMPORTANT: the source code tree has been re-organised for IBX 2.3. Please remove all previous copies of the IBX source code tree before installing this release.

This release introduces the IBXServices unit. The IBXServices unit is a re-architectured update of the IBServices unit providing what is intended to be a clearer and easier to use set of IB Services components. See Chapter 10 of the IBX User Guide for more information and the guide to "Firebird Service Management Using IBX". The legacy services components are still available and provided in a separate package. There is no need to update working applications using the older versions except for an additional package dependency.

The update also includes several improvements/additions to TIBExtract and bug fixes to date.

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IBX 2.2.0 is now available

MWA Software is pleased to announce that release 2.2.0 of IBX for Lazarus is now available for download from https://mwasoftware.co.uk/ibx. This is an important update to IBX and all users are recommended to upgrade to the new release. Please read the changelog before upgrade.

The main intent behind the release is to add support for the remaining Firebird 3 features (and some from earlier Firebird releases) that were not supported in release 2.1. This includes:

1. Support for SQL Statements INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE...RETURNING. The first two cases are now able to update the current row for all TIBCustomDataset descendents including TIBTable, using data returned following a row insert or update.

2. INSERT...RETURNING is used to provide support for Firebird "Identity" columns. For example, when used to provide auto-increment primary keys.

3. Firebird "Packages" are now supported by TIBStoredProc and by the SQL Component Editors.

4. Additional Firebird 3 properties are now supported by TIBDatabaseInfo and by the Services API components (e.g. TIBConfigService).

5. Alternative Security Databases are now supported by the Services API Components.

6. TIBExtract now supports DDL Grants and triggers on database objects.

7. A new IBServices component to support online validation of a database (TIBOnlineValidationService).

8. A major new example application (DBAdmin) is now included. This illustrates the use of IBX for Day-to-Day Database Administration tasks including User Management, Backup/Restore and Database Validation and Repair. It is also intended to provided a useable application that users may use directly or incorporate into their own toolsets. It also demonstrates User Management using Firebird 3 virtual tables and SQL statements. Note: this application also requires the standard Lazarus package MemDSLaz.

This release also incorporates recent bug fixes and includes a 33 page guide to the use of IBX for Firebird DBA activities.

IBX for Lazarus may be downloaded from: https://www.mwasoftware.co.uk/ibx

or by subversion from:

https://svn.mwasoftware.co.uk/public/ibx/tags/R2-2-0

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  1. IBX 2.1.0 is now available
  2. Firebird Pascal Client API package (fbintf) release 1.0.2 is now available
  3. IBX2 is now available
  4. The 2nd Pre-release of IBX2 is now available for download

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