MySQL Workbench 5.1 Alpha for Linux available

We're proud to announce that we've just uploaded the first Linux-Alpha build for upcoming MySQL Workbench 5.1 for everyone to try. But beware, it's an early Alpha release! It includes basic functionality like loading/saving Models, import/export SQL files and a set of basic editors to model your data-structures. A couple of features are still missing and the UI from a lot of things is not done yet but its purpose is to give you a chance to experience how WB will look and feel on your Linux Desktop. We're releasing this as a source package and in binary form compiled on Ubuntu 8.04. There's a build-instructions page available for Ubuntu as well. For later releases we'll be providing more intructions/binary packages for several ...

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MySQL Workbench 5.0.25 Available

We're happy to announce the next release of MySQL Workbench 5.0. This one has 19 bugs fixed compared to the last version. We're about to complete the first alpha version of Workbench 5.1 but in parallel we're continuing our bug-raid for 5.0 (most of the fixes also go into 5.1 code as well). Stay tuned for the next announcements here on wb.mysql.com

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Pimp My Workbench

Some weeks ago there was a request about adding a feature that keeps (or gets) datatypes of colums, which are connected via foreign keys, in sync. While we have added this to our ToDo list, I thought of doing some simple LUA exercises to give the user at least a funtion to check if the FKs in the model all have columns with matching datatypes. As it turned out such tasks can be done quite easily using our GRT-shell. And by writing some functions you can add features to Workbenchs interface. To get in touch with the shell/GRT environment inside Workbench click the tiny black prompt-window-icon in the top right area of workbench (or choose 'View->Advanced->GRT Shell' from the main menu).  Some ...

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MySQL Workbench 5.0.25 coming next week

As you may have noticed we're going for a major milestone on our Workbench 5.1 roadmap. So our resources are pretty much concentrated on this  task at the moment. But it's just as important to keep improving our 5.0 GA version, so we will reserve the first days next week to make progress here as well. We will publish the next release of 5.0 mid-next-week. So stay tuned for a better 5.0 next week and the upcoming 5.1 alpha later this month.

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MySQL Workbench 5.1 Alpha for Linux in Less Than 30 Days

A lot of people have been waiting for this a long time - so I am very happy to announce that we will publish the first Alpha that runs natively on Linux end of September. We will release generic binaries and the 5.1 source tarball including everything that is needed to build yourself. This will not be a feature-complete beta release yet, but we are trying to get the basic functionality working so everybody can start modeling right away. We spent most of the last few months working on updating the Back-End implementation to use the GRTv4 and to prepare our platform-independent mForms. I expect the actual Front-End port to make good progress. Let me share two screenshots I just made on ...

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MySQL Workbench 5.0.24 online

Finally, the next release of version 5.0 is available on our download servers. During summer time, our release-cycle got a bit loose, but we're about to tighten that again so the next release will hit the servers in less than a month again. 24 bugs were closed since release 5.0.23. Unfortunately one of the bugs discovered lately (and of course fixed in this release) was a bug in our auto-update module that could lead to a crash of Workbench when updater tried to close the running application. As a result, we had to deactivate automatic updates for versions < 5.0.24 so please fetch you copy manually this time via our download page. All customers of SE version please log into ...

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MySQL Workbench 5.1 OS X Screen Designs

Before I am leaving for my summer vacation I wanted to share the first screen designs for the Mac version of Workbench. Click on the small images below to view the screenshots at full size. The first shot shows the new Overview Page. It holds the Workbench Central panel (that can be collapsed of course), the Machine-Group panels and a Notes panel. Each machine tab holds a list of Database Connections and MySQL Models that are associated with that particular machine. (The list of Database Instances shown in this screenshot - which will give you access to administrative features - are a WB 6.0 feature coming later next year). When you double-click a Database Connection you will get to the new SQL ...

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Preparing For Next Release - MySQL Workbench 5.0.24 Coming Soon

Due to summer vacations - yes, even we take some time off - our release-cycle has slowed down quite a bit so it has already been more than 4 weeks since we aired an update of Workbench. Right in the middle of testing and preparing the next build, our build-server has raised the white flag. Looks like the cooling system above the unit decided, that its too hot, and put a cold shower right down on our machine. Our engineers are quickly gathering some new iron and we are meanwhile preparing the build manually this time. There are a few bugs remaining but next package will be ready soon and we put it on our download servers - so stay ...

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Nice Blog Postings About MySQL Workbench

Quite a few Blog postings pop up recently, let me outline two of them. Gerry Narvaja talks about multi-page printing by using the MySQL Workbench community edition utilizing the PDF output. Find his posting here. Weizh posted a nice step-by-step tutorial on how to use Workbench to show differences between two databases. Find it here. Both workflows get you what you want by using the Community Edition. For those of you who want everything on a silver plate there is the Standard Edition of course, which simplifies these tasks even more. On a side note: To get more information about the printing topic Gerry joined us on our IRC #workbench channel on irc.freenode.net. Somebody from the team usually hangs out there from 10:00 am ...

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MySQL Workbench 5.0.23 available

While working hard on the MySQL Workbench 5.1 source branch (Linux / OS X versions) we have not forgotten about the 5.0 branch and have fixed another series of bugs - now announcing the release of MySQL Workbench 5.0.23. Workbench now stores and recovers common Application settings - this is one of 26 bugs we corrected for this release. Fetch the latest version and let Workbench deal with your databases.

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