MySQL Workbench Roadmap

This page contains a short overview of our future plans for MySQL Workbench.

MySQL Workbench 5.0

The 5.0 is the successor application to fabFORCE.net DBDesigner4. It contains a basic feature set to do visual database design, reverse engineer SQL scripts and from live database connections, forward engineer, synchronize schemata, schema validation, DBDoc schema documenting and full scriptability with Lua. It is release for Windows XP & Vista only.

After the GA release the following points will be worked on.

• Bug fixes
• Enable connection-end points dragging/reordering
• Canvas speed optimizations
• More DBDoc templates
• Online repository of model snippets
• Online repository of plugins

For more information please see this posting.

MySQL Workbench 5.1

This release will introduce the missing support for the Linux and Mac OS X platforms. The major goal is to extend the modeling functionality of WB 5.0 to make it more sophisticated.

MySQL Workbench 5.2

This version will get a first implementation of the functionality of MySQL Query Browser. This includes live database querying functionality which will grow to a fully featured SQL IDE. We are currently collecting ideas what to include in this regard so please see this posting here and  post your ideas on the Workbench forums. Your input is welcome!