IBX 2.4.2 is now available for download

[tonyw]

MWA Software is pleased to announce the release of version 2.4.2 of IBX for Lazarus. This version adds support for the Firebird 4 IBatch interface. It also fixes some minor bugs. Version 2.4.2 supports all Firebird releases from 2.5 onwards.

The Firebird 4 Batch Execution interface applies to Update and Insert queries only (i.e. not update/insert returning) and can be used to batch up many separate queries to be executed as a single operation. This can be used to minimise the client/server interfaces and to optimise server update/insert times.

Support is provided by the Firebird Pascal API and exposed via TIBSQL.

It is available for download from

https://www.mwasoftware.co.uk/ibx

[patyit]

Thank you for this wonderful component package !

Now I’m finishing my latest project, I’ve used Zeos so far, now it’s the first complex, large Firebird 3 database with IBX, and I can say it’s much better, faster, more manageable and more stable than Zeos and SQLDB components ! The documentation is also fantastic, precise, clear, understandable.
There are plans to switch to Firebird 4 soon, and that won't be a problem in the future either ! 

[jujibo]

Thanks Tony!

[armandoboza]

thank you Tony, nice job.

[tonyw]

Just a quick note for anyone who tries to test IBX 2.4.2 with the most recent Lazarus 2.2 RC2 from gitlab. An IBX user has pointed out a recent regression in the Lazarus source for TDBLookupComboBox and which breaks the behaviour of TIBLookupComboEditBox. This is a very recent regression and was not present in the 2.2 RC2 used to test IBX 2.4.2.

 I have already posted this as an issue.

https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/lazarus/lazarus/-/issues/39343

Hopefully this regression will be fixed before 2.2 is released.

[trev]

Just a quick note for anyone who tries to test IBX 2.4.2 with the most recent Lazarus 2.2 RC2 from gitlab.

2.2.0 RC1 ? I've not seen an RC2 yet.

[tonyw]

Just a quick note for anyone who tries to test IBX 2.4.2 with the most recent Lazarus 2.2 RC2 from gitlab.

2.2.0 RC1 ? I've not seen an RC2 yet.

If you grab
git -b fixes_2_2 https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/lazarus/lazarus.git
You get RC2 - or at least snapshot of the fixes that will eventually will be RC2

[jujibo]

Lazarus 2.2.0RC2
Date: 2021-08-25
Rev: fixes_2_2-0-gc60b5f9a7e
FPC 3.2.3 x86_64-linux-gtk2

[valdir.marcos]

Thanks, Tony!

[tonyw]

Just a quick note for anyone who tries to test IBX 2.4.2 with the most recent Lazarus 2.2 RC2 from gitlab. An IBX user has pointed out a recent regression in the Lazarus source for TDBLookupComboBox and which breaks the behaviour of TIBLookupComboEditBox. This is a very recent regression and was not present in the 2.2 RC2 used to test IBX 2.4.2.

Good news. The regression has been fixed and merged into the fixes_2_2 branch. Many thanks to the Lazarus Devs for moving fast to fix this before 2.2 is released.