FlameRobin Files

We are pleased to release FlameRobin version 26.6.19. This release introduces various improvements, styling customization fixes, portable Windows build enhancements, and packaging/rendering fixes.

Key Changes & Improvements

• CPU Architecture in About Box:

• The About dialog box now dynamically detects and displays the CPU architecture (such as x86-64, x86, arm64, arm, ppc, mips, or riscv) on which the application is running, enhancing diagnostic and version info.

• Style & Font Customization Save Fix:

• Resolved a long-standing issue in the styling configuration where custom font size and font name modifications failed to persist properly and instead reverted/fell back to the "Global override" style.

• Enhanced style manager lookup logic to cleanly fallback to global configuration definitions for child styling elements, preventing font size resets in the SQL editors.

• Portable Windows Builds Enhancements:

• Pre-configured portable Windows builds (both 32-bit and 64-bit packages) to default to ServerMode = SuperClassic in firebird.conf. This enables the embedded Firebird engine to use shared lock files, permitting multiple instances or external processes to simultaneously access a local .fdb database file without exclusive file-locking failures.

• Added troubleshooting and lock mode guidelines to the docs/firebird_embedded.md documentation.

• Linux Debian Package SVG Rendering & Native Dependencies:

• Fixed SVG rendering issues in Debian (.deb) packages. Bundling host libraries was avoided during build staging (only dependencies from vcpkg are bundled), and libsecret-1-0 alongside libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 are now declared as native dependencies. This ensures correct rendering of HTML templates, settings, and SVG icons upon packaging and clean installations.

• Documentation & Submodule Updates:

• Updated BUILD.md with instructions on using recursive git submodule commands (git submodule update --init --recursive) to help developers properly fetch external dependencies like vcpkg and fb-cpp.