Firebird V1.5.5 ha sido liberado y está disponible para la descarga desde el 14 de diciembre de 2007. Esta versión tiene algunas correcciones de errores y algunas de estas correcciones son debido a que se descubrieron algunas vulnerabilidades de seguridad en FB2.0 que fueron corregidas y tales correcciones se trasladaron al código de FB 1.5 dando por resultado este release. En los detalles de esta noticia se enlistan las correcciones aplicadas en Firebird 1.5.5. La descarga, aquí: http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=engine_155
Estos son los detalles de las correcciones en este release, por falta de tiempo no han sido traducidas al castellano. [i] Bugs CORE-1061 and CORE-1109 fixed by P. Reeves Partial fix for Windows Vista platform, whereby the Explorer crashes when the Firebird 1.5 control panel applet is installed. This crash does NOT occur with Firebird 2.n, but backporting the changes did not work. The installer now disables installation of the 1.5 applet if Vista is detected as the host operating system. Bug CORE-1076 fixed by A. Peshkoff Services Manager and gsec would truncate First/Middle/Last Name fields to 17 characters instead of the 31 characters defined for the field definitions. Fix back-ported from Firebird 2.0. Unregistered bug fixed by A. Peshkoff Supplying an empty Database Parameter Block (DPB) or Services Parameter Block (SPB) would crash the server. Bug CORE-921 fixed by A. Peshkoff, C. Valderrama A number of vulnerabilities found and reported by RISE Security were closed. Fixes back-ported from Firebird 2.0.3 Bug CORE-1470 fixed by C. Valderrama Supplying a name of more than 127 characters for a secondary file would cause the server to crash. Fix back-ported from Firebird 2.0.3 Bug CORE-1447 Bugfixes and Additions since Release 1.0 110 fixed by C. Valderrama Querying for database info on a very long path through an API call to isc_database_info() could cause a buffer overrun. Unregistered bug fixed by P. Beach QLI could cause a crash when processing the following statement: insert into relationx select * from relationy Unregistered bug fixed by P. Beach An alignment issue could cause a core dump on HPUX when using SQL Dialect 1 and the following statement: select distinct(1.0/1) from rdb$database[/i]