MySQL Workbench 5.2.6 Alpha Available

Hello folks, we have just released another alpha-version of MySQL Workbench 5.2. This release now contains another couple of Administration features like "Managing your user accounts", "Viewing your log tables", improved start/stop scripts for remote administration (administration of remote servers is working in the mac and linux version of MySQL Workbench 5.2.6 - the windows version needs yet a bit more tweaking on that park, so that will be available in next release). Please note that 5.2.5 was an internal only release. Head right over to our download pages and grab a copy to check out current functionality hands on. Please keep in mind, that this is still an alpha version – so do not use it on production data/servers! Also ...

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MySQL Workbench Administrator Plugin

Recently we have released Workbench 5.2.4 Alpha. This version has some new features, and amongst them there is Workbench Administrator plugin or WBA plugin for short. The plugin aims to ease the managing process of server instances. What we offer with WBA is a simple way to check status, configure and control one server instance. Some parts will resemble discontinued MySQL Administrator. And here is a short summary of what we will have in WBA: Start/Stop server Edit server configuration (my.cnf) Manage user accounts Monitor user connections Status/Server variables browsing Log browsing Dump/Restore In this alpha we have implemented a subset, which targets local usage only. Remote management and administration is upcoming. The subset includes: Add new Server Profiles Start/Stop the Server Edit Server Configuration (my.cnf) Monitor user ...

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MySQL Workbench 5.2.4 Alpha Available

We're proud to announce the availability of the next Alpha release of MySQL Workbench 5.2. This is the first release of WB 5.2 that enables part of the upcoming administrative feature set. The following tasks can be performed in the WB 5.2.4 release: Registration of Server Profiles Start/Stop of the MySQL Server Configuration File Edition (my.cnf / my.ini) Show Connections and Server-variables Further we have added the long awaited SSH Tunnel features that enables MySQL connections to machines where only SSH access is available. Select the new Connection Method "Standard TCP/IP over SSH" in the Connection Management dialog and fill out the SSH connection information. More information about the new features is coming up here on our blog pages. Please fetch your copy, try the new features and tell ...

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MySQL Workbench 5.2.3 Alpha Available

We're happy to announce the availability of the next Alpha release of MySQL Workbench 5.2. There have been further improvements to the querying part and we added the foundations for the administration part (which will be onboard in the next alpha). On startup, MySQL Workbench 5.2 now doesn't automatically create a new design-document anymore - thats for decreasing resource-usage when you only launch Workbench for running a few queries against your database. Also the fix to make Workbench work on Snow Leopard has been included in 5.2 now as well. Please download the program, take it for a test-drive and tell us what you think. But keep in mind, that this is still an alpha version - so be advised to not use it for production data! Also please note, ...

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MySQL Workbench 5.1.18 Available

We are proud to announce the next service release of MySQL Workbench 5.1.18. We have fixed another set of bugs and made some improvements you people have been asking for. We have optimized the layout of the Columns-section in our table-editor considering the ideas and exeriences you posted in feature requests, bug-reports and on the forums. Now it should provide a smoother more comfortable workflow. As already reported in previous blog-posts, this version is also compatible with Apples recently released version of OSX - 10.6 Snow Leopard. Detailed information on the fixes can be found on our Releases Page. The new files are available on our download page: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/5.1.html If you encounter problems or have any questions, you can always contact us via IRC (Channel ...

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MySQL Workbench now works on Snow Leopard

So, it turned out fixing the Workbench crash on Snow Leopard wasn't very hard. Took a little time to find out what was causing the crash but, once that was found, the fix was quick. The next releases of both branches — MySQL Workbench 5.1.18 this week and 5.2.3 alpha later on — will have proper support for Mac OS X 10.6 For whoever might be interested, the bug was caused by what seems to be a slight change in how object/NSView copies are handed in Cocoa. NSCollectionView items are populated by copying a "prototype" object. It seems that somehow, duplication of that object included the fields of child objects as well in Leopard, but not in Snow Leopard. The object copies ...

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MySQL Workbench on Snow Leopard

As all you Mac users (and probably many non-Macies) know Apple released Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) recently, even though this release was announced for September previously. Since a large part of the MySQL Workbench user base works on OS X it was clear that many of you will test Workbench on the new OS. However, so far we haven't had the opportunity to do the same (too busy fixing bugs on released OSes) and hence we did not know about incompatibility problems there. In the meantime several users did tests and reported us a crash on startup of the application, which means you cannot use MySQL Workbench on Snow Leopard for the time being. We are currently preparing build, ...

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What is the Operating System for your personal development machine/laptop that you do or would like to run MySQL Workbench on? NOTE: This is not about your production server OS, only your personal development OS [poll id="2"]

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MySQL Workbench 5.1.17 Available

We're proud to announce the first service release of our current GA product MySQL Workbench 5.1. This maintenance release encompasses a number of stability, performance and quality improvements. We were able to fix 56 bugs - as always, details on latest changes can be found on our Releases Page. Please head over to our download page and fetch this new update: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/5.1.html In addition to the improvements on the application, we also updated our packaging procedure to provide a more up to date selection of packages for recent distributions. Along with the Windows and OSX (intel) binaries we now provide binaries for the following Linux distributions: Ubuntu 8.04  (32/64bit) Ubuntu 9.04  (32/64bit) Fedora 11     (32/64bit) If you encounter any problems, please report them to our bugtracker. Feel ...

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MySQL Workbench 5.2. Query Functionality Update

Few words about current status of 5.2 branch, its main feature Query Editor, and plans for nearest future about it. 5.2 is still in alpha stage, but we did good progress lately and plan to release beta version soon. For v5.2.2 major efforts were concentrated on stabilization of existing functionality and code base. There are few improvements in Query Editor visible to end user, while a good bunch of bugs were revealed and fixed - thanks to community for bug reporting. Even more fixes/improvements were merged from 5.1 branch. While we continue to work on stabilization, we plan to add following features before transition to beta stage: Client side sorting Advanced editor for text fields of recordset Saving/retrieving BLOB values Option to propagate changes ...

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