In case you have not already noticed, Workbench 5.2 alpha / preview release of MySQL's premier development and design tool, has been announced.

For an independent preview, you can also see here. 

In case you have not already noticed, Workbench 5.2 alpha / preview release of MySQL's premier development and design tool, has been announced.

For an independent preview, you can also see here. 

The MySQL Workbench team announces the availability of version 5.2.2 - the 3rd ALPHA release - of our database development tool.

Since the last alpha release, several bugs has been fixed and fixes from the 5.1 branch were also included. No major new features are included in this version, but upgrade from previous versions of Workbench 5.2 is recommended. However, please note that this is still an ALPHA release of Workbench 5.2 For database modeling use, please consider using the latest version of Workbench 5.1

For a QuickTour of the latest Query Browser features, see:  http://dev.mysql.com/workbench/?page_id=236

The files for different platforms have been pushed to our main server and will be globally available on our mirrors during the next hours.

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Today, we’re ready to announce RethinkDB — a new kind of database. It’s been a winding road. For two years, Mike, Leif, and I have been thinking independently on how to bring a breath of fresh air to the database world. Three months ago, we came together to form a company and bring our ideas to reality. In these three months, we’ve raised seed funding from Y Combinator, moved to California, and built a MySQL plugin that implements the core of our vision — a storage engine redesigned for the modern world. With the exception of storage technology, database design has always been beautiful. Now, with dropping costs of storage, the advent of solid state drives, and advances in functional data structures theory, we can finally replace that last messy component of database management systems with an elegant, beautiful solution. …

Devart has released today the updated version 3.50 of dbForge Fusion for MySQL – a powerful add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio or CodeGear RAD Studio, designed to simplify MySQL database development and enhance data management.

Up to 100 usability improvements have been implemented, so you get better insight and satisfaction as well as a total control over performed tasks through the modernized UI of dbForge Fusion for MySQL.

Striving to speed up performed tasks, dbForge Fusion offers compression to reduce traffic, while exchanging data with MySQL server, and makes the exchange quicker.

The new features of dbForge Fusion for MySQL 3.50 include:

A new excellent Database Designer

The new version includes a modern tool for online database design – Database Designer. It is indispensable for anyone who needs to build a clear and …

We just announced the latest MySQL Workbench 5.1 release, 5.1.16. This release was labeled GA, which means that everybody using WB 5.0 or an earlier version of WB 5.1 is recommended update to WB 5.1.16.

We are now putting our main focus on the WB 5.1 branch and will continue to provide rapid update releases during the next months. Please report any hidden issues you may still find on our bug-tracker bugs.mysql.com so we can take care of those quickly.

After the dust settles we will also continue to work on WB 5.2 in parallel, to give you query & administrative functionality within a single, powerful but easy to use tool.

Happy schema designing with MySQL Workbench 5.1!

We’re proud to announce the first General Availability build of our database development tool MySQL Workbench. Version 5.1.16 is now available on our download-servers. On our final run towards GA release of version 5.1 we managed to close 13 bugs and a couple of small issues still found in our previous release. Details on latest changes can be found on our Releases Page. Starting with this release, we recommend to switch from your Workbench 5.0 installation right to the new release (if you haven’t yet) - 5.1 is now our current stable release.

The files for different platforms have been pushed to our main server and will be globally available on our mirrors during the next hours. Please get your copy form our Download page:

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We’re proud to announce the availability of our 3rd Release Candidate of MySQL Workbench 5.1. This is the last Release Candidate before 5.1 is released as GA. We keep optimizing and improving the functionality and brushing the last rough corners to be able to provide a shiny Workbench 5.1 GA next week. You can find the details as always on this release on our Releases Page.

Head right over to our Download page to give this last development build a try:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/5.1.html

If you encounter any problems, please report them to our bugtracker. Feel free to contact us any time on IRC (irc.freenode.net, #workbench) for any questions or infos.

- The Workbench Team

Dear users,

Devart Development Team has released today a new build 3.50.305 of dbForge Studio for MySQL, which includes the following bug fixes:

• Problem with obtaining the SQL code for procedures was fixed (42100)
• The bug with application hang on while parsing some view texts was fixed (41333)
• The “Stop” button that stops query executing is working correctly now (41292)
• The bug with removing of a procedure during its renaming was fixed (41284)
• IndexOutOfRangeException on working with identifier’s aliases in SELECT statements was fixed (41712)
• IndexOutOfRangeException during tables editing was fixed (41716)
• The problem with incorrect detection of relations between tables in Database Diagram was fixed (41799)
• NullReferenceException on closing an …

We’ve just released the second RC of the cross-platform version of MySQL Workbench. Version 5.1.14 is now available for download. We closed 5 bugs since last week and worked on more refinements. For the complete list of changes please take a look at our Releases Page.

Please head over to our Download page to give this release a try:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/5.1.html

End of next week we are going to build another RC release before we’re preparing the final GA release of Version 5.1. If you find bugs, please post it to our bugtracker. Feel free to contact us on IRC (irc.freenode.net, #workbench) for any questions or infos.

- The Workbench Team