Finally, after 6 months of active development, three release candidates and untold liters of developer blood and sweat: Firebase 1.8.0-CE is now released! This release brings HTML5 support in the form of WebSockets and Comet right into the Firebase server.
The kicker? It’s all under the hood: If you’ve written existing games in Firebase they will still work. The addition of HTML5 support is purely in the transport layer and does not concern your server code at all. The same server game can now handle not only Flash, Java and C++ clients, but also any JavaScript capable device.
Go you forth and try it out: Cubeia Firebase 1.8.0-CE Downloads