What is FlameRobin?

FlameRobin is a database administration tool for Firebird RDBMS.
Our goal is to build a tool that is:

lightweight (small footprint, fast execution)
cross-platform (Linux, Windows, Mac OS , FreeBSD)
dependent only on other Open Source software

New Flamerobin snapshot 0.9.7 is available with a few Firebird 4 fixes.

3 May 2023 New Flamerobin snapshot 0.9.7 is is available with a few Firebird 4 fixes.

New Flamerobin snapshot 0.9.3.6 is available with a few fixes and features.

11 January 2021 New Flamerobin snapshot 0.9.3.6 is is available with a few fixes and features.

New Flamerobin snapshot 0.9.3.3 for Windows is available (x86-32).

25 August 2020 New Flamerobin snapshot 0.9.3.3 for Windows 32 bits is available (x86).

New Flamerobin snapshot 0.9.3.2 for Windows is available (x86-32).

17 August 2020 New Flamerobin snapshot 0.9.3.2 for Windows 32 bits is available (x86).

Flamerobin github repository

There is a github repository where you can send pull requests for flamerobin and add new issues https://github.com/mariuz/flamerobin.

New Flamerobin snapshot 0.9.3.c75f861 for Windows is available (x86).

25 November 2016 New Flamerobin snapshot 0.9.3.c75f861 for Windows is available (x86). It needs the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 (x86). See Git log for code changes.

New Flamerobin snapshot for Linux x86-64 only

23 July 2014 New Flamerobin snapshot for Linux x86-64 is released this one was built and static linked with WxWidgets 3.0.1 and boost 1.55 to use it from console type :

cd Downloads
tar -xJvf ~/Downloads/flamerobin-0.9.3-ff8df8e-x86_64.tar.xz
sudo mv opt/flamerobin /opt
/opt/flamerobin/bin/flamerobin

libfbclient is required

21 March 2014 - Damyan uploaded a new snapshot for Debian Unstable It's also built against wxWidgets 3.0. For other distros follow this guide on building Flamerobin with wxWidgets 3.0 (tested on Ubuntu) Thanks to Olly Betts for the patch and testing on wxWidgets 3.0. A few changes in debian package:

use xz compression for snapshot source tarball
add support for more Firebird 3.0 reserved keywords
ask before deleting unsaved changes to SQL files

New Flamerobin snapshot build for Mac OSX

7 Octomber 2013 - I have now also uploaded a new snapshot build for Mac OS. It's also built against Boost libraries version 1.54. The updated boost.m4 file necessitated a bump of the minimum deployment target to 10.5. It's still a 32 bit only universal build for PPC and x86. Unless I buy a new Mac this won't change as my 10.5.8 Mac isn't updatable to more recent OS AFAICS. If anyone feels like taking over the Mac OS side of FlameRobin and looking into 64 bit Cocoa builds against wxWidgets 3.0 I'll gladly step aside... Thanks -- Michael Hieke

New FlameRobin snapshots flamerobin-0.9.x ready for testing (Windows 9x deprecated)

4 Octomber 2013 - Flamerobin 0.9.x git hash 5ece15b binary snapshots for Windows are ready. You can check Git log for code changes.
Enjoy, and please be sure to report any bugs, regressions or suggestions on flamerobin-devel list or in the new bug tracker
On Ubuntu/Debian you can follow the Buiding guide from git to obtain the latest snapshot source.

The 32 bit build does no longer contain a version for Windows 9X versions, only the Unicode build is included. The Inno Setup created installer should not allow the installation on Win 9X but I haven't tested this. All builds use Boost libraries version 1.54, for the necessary changes to be able to compile it with MSVC++ 7.1 see boost ticket

New FlameRobin snapshots flamerobin-0.9.3.1186200 ready for testing

2 November 2012 - Flamerobin 0.9.3.1186200 binary snapshots for Windows are ready. You can check Git log for code changes.
Enjoy, and please be sure to report any bugs, regressions or suggestions on flamerobin-devel list or in the new bug tracker
On Ubuntu/Debian you can follow the Buiding guide from git to obtain the latest snapshot source.

New FlameRobin snapshots 0.9.3.2246.* builds

19 October 2012 - Flamerobin 0.9.3 revision 2246 binary snapshots for Windows
Snapshot is done with two changes
Enjoy, and please be sure to report any bugs, regressions or suggestions on flamerobin-devel list.

Flamerobin is switched from SVN to Git

14 October 2012 - Git repository is up and can be accessed as documented on Sourceforge git page
Building guide from Git on Ubuntu/Debian is updated .

New FlameRobin snapshots 0.9.3.2243.* builds

11 October 2012 - Flamerobin 0.9.3 revision 2243 binary snapshots for Windows
Snapshot uses a thread to establish the database connection. That means that the progress dialog can be moved and cancelled, and the progress bar is updated in indeterminate mode. To see it in action it's best to try to connect to a database on a server which is not available or which doesn't exist, which so far blocks FlameRobin completely until the connection call times out
Enjoy, and please be sure to report any bugs, regressions or suggestions on flamerobin-devel list.

New FlameRobin 0.9.3.2216 builds for Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric) and Debian Sid

12 February 2012 - Flamerobin 0.9.3 revision 2216 binary snapshots for Debian Sid and Ubuntu Oneiric are ready to install and test. Enjoy, and please be sure to report any bugs, regressions or suggestions on flamerobin-devel list.

New FlameRobin snapshots 0.9.3.2210.* builds

25 January 2012 - Flamerobin 0.9.3 revision 2210 binary snapshots for Windows are available on SF.net. Feedback on field and text delimiter settings for save grid data as CSV file command would be especially welcome. Enjoy, and please be sure to report any bugs, regressions or suggestions on flamerobin-devel list.

New FlameRobin 0.9.3 snapshots for Ubuntu Natty and Debian Sid

2 May 2011 - Flamerobin 0.9.3 revision 2105 binary snapshots for Debian Sid and Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric are ready to install and test with quite a few fixes.For other ubuntu releases like Natty use this guide. Enjoy, and please be sure to report any bugs, regressions or suggestions on flamerobin-devel list.

New FlameRobin 0.9.3 snapshots for Ubuntu Natty and Debian Sid

28 April 2011 - Flamerobin 0.9.3 revision 2100 binary snapshots for Debian Sid and Ubuntu Natty are ready to install and test. Enjoy, and please be sure to report any bugs, regressions or suggestions on flamerobin-devel list.

For Testers only : FlameRobin 0.9.3 snapshots for Ubuntu and Debian

12 April 2011 - Flamerobin 0.9.3 revision 2092 binary snapshots for Debian and Ubuntu are ready to install and test. Enjoy, and please be sure to report any bugs, regressions or suggestions on flamerobin-devel list.

For Testers only : FlameRobin 0.9.3 snapshots for Windows

12 April 2011 - We have now Flamerobin 0.9.3 SVN revision 2092 snapshot files for Windows 32 and 64 bits, both setup and ZIP files. Enjoy, and please be sure to report any bugs, regressions or suggestions on flamerobin-devel list.

Flamerobin 0.9.2 available in all major linux distros : Mandriva , Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora ,Gentoo, OpenSuse

7 December 2009 - All major free distro have now latest Flamerobin stable version (0.9.2) available in their official repositories. Here is the list of where flamerobin 0.9.2 is included or can be installed.Also we are included in Ubuntu Karmic Software Center

FlameRobin 0.9.2 released

11 April 2009 - Source, Windows (setup and zip) with Win64 port, Linux (Slackware/gtk2) and MacOS X binary packages are available for download. Ubuntu Packages for Jaunty Jack, Intrepid and Hardy are ready in this ppa ,read this page for install instructions ,package for Debian is included in testing (squeeze) ,for other various Linux distributions (and maybe FreeBSD) some updates should follow shortly. This is mostly a bug fix release. As usual, it also has a lot of bugfixes and minor enhancements New features:

Support for trusted authentication
Databases can now be recreated from existing registration info
Transaction isolation level can now be selected in SQL editor
Win64 port
Allowed deleting from system tables (ex. to stop queries via MON$STATEMENTS)

FlameRobin 0.9.0 released

23.09.2008 - A new release is out. It brings new features like Firebird 2.1 support, tabbed browsing, etc. Windows, Linux and Mac OS X binaries and source code package are available for download. Here are the details.For Ubuntu(Hardy and Intrepid) read this page ,package for Debian is included in unstable (Sid)

FlameRobin 0.8.6 released

18.03.2008 - A new release is out. This is mostly a bug-fix release, probably a first 'stable' 0.8 version without major bugs. Windows, Linux and Mac OS X binaries and source code package are available for download. We recommend all Linux distribution packagers to upgrade (especially if you still use 0.8.3 or lower). Here are the details. For ubuntu read this page , in Debian is included in testing/unstable version

Snapshot builds

If you don't want to build FlameRobin from the sources, but still want to run the bleeding edge version, you can fetch the latest binary snapshot builds from the download section. We create those whenever there is some important bugfix, some major change to the code or some new feature needs to be tested. These builds don't have manual or changelog updated, but they are a nice preview of what will the next FlameRobin release look like.

Firebird Conference 2006

18.11.2006 - We have some pictures and fixed broken files with Milan's papers about development with wxWidgets and IBPP and Managing Metadata Changes

FlameRobin whitepaper

27.03.2006 - FlameRobin whitepaper from the Firebird Conference 2005, read about the history and the basic ideas around the FlameRobin project.

Other news

We've set up a blog, to allow you to keep up with some of the latest happenings within the FlameRobin team.