Last week we had a team meeting, where we could discuss and plan various issues and ideas for current and upcoming versions of our project.

But finally it’s time to publish new material to show what we were up to in the past weeks. We have our first dual-platform-release of the MySQL Workbench 5.1.7 alpha version.

Please note, that in terms of UI linux- and OSX- version aren’t yet on the same level of completeness. While we are nearly done having all features onboard for the linux-build, we still have some more checkmarks to fill on the osx checklist - but we are catching up. Nevertheless it’s the same codebase - especially the backend-code is the same for all platforms.

Some of you might be missing a release - 5.1.6 for Linux. No, you didn’t miss an announcement: For the purpose of unifying the releases for Linux and mac we simply didn’t publish 5.1.6 last week. It was considered an internal release only and now …

We are proud to announce that MySQL Workbench has won the Developer.com’s Product of the Year 2009 voting in the category “Database Tool”. 

We would like to thank all our customers and users who have voted in favor of our application. This reflects the very positive feedback we get when talking to people about MySQL Workbench.

With the upcoming support for Linux & Mac and the resounding feedback from this developer community we hope to grow the support and usage of the product even further.

If you want to see MySQL Workbench in action or want to learn about the tricks & tweaks to get even more out of the application, please consider …

A call for suggestions for information and displays at the MySQL project stand at FOSDEM 2009

Come and meet us at the INTED2009 conference in Valencia, Spain in March of 2009. Walter has just been accepted to submit a paper and do an oral presentation during the conference. INTED is a conference about technology and education. From the INTED2009 website: “The general objective of the conference is to promote international collaboration in the fields [...]

Our Mac Developers have done an outstanding job in catching up with the Mac frontend. We have worked hard in the last days to get a little Christmas present out for all people waiting for a Mac Version of our Database Tool.
It’s a 1st alpha version, so don’t expect a full blown design application already - and the binary is Intel only this time (hey, it’s only Christmas folks ;).  But what we deliver is a working UI where you can load/save existing Workbench-documents and create diagrams from imported SQL-scripts. The canvas and the GRT system is up and running and there’s a shell which enables messing with the objects on GRT level. There are no object editors yet (so you can’t create and edit objects, but still build your diagrams for your existing SQL CREATE scripts) and wizards for exporting scripts, and connecting to databases are also missing. But enough writing, grab the .dmg package from our server and give it a try to get …

We’re closing in on features left to be implemented in 5.1 and keep improving on stability. All object editors are in place now (some of them still in a basic version though) and a bunch of memleaks has been fixed already. Additionally we now statically link the ctemplate-library and therefore you won’t have to care about installing/maintaining that package on your own anymore.

We provide bin and src packages for Ubuntu and Fedora9 (both 32bit) at the moment. Please grab the latest packages from our official download page and Test-drive our latest offspring. Let us know about any problems on using or building (also for other distributions) this alpha verison.

We’re happy to announce a new update of our MySQL Workbench 5.0. We’ve fixed a list of bugs (can be seen on our Release-Info-Page) and improved the table figures by adding the option to display column-properties like Not Null, Auto Increment and Unsigned directly on the Table Figure. This new feature is deactivated by default and can be switched on via the Options Dialog (Extras->Options, Diagram-Tab) by checking the Show Column Table Flags Option.

Get the latest version now: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench

Our work on the Linux version of Workbench 5.1 has made big progress, so we’re planning to publish a new Linux alpha update next week - stay tuned, penguins.

Devart company decided to publish roadmap of dbForge for MySQL line to help you understand the future product development. This roadmad encompasses two products: dbForge Studio for MySQL and dbForge Fusion for MySQL.

Below is the chronologically ordered list of features we plan to implement in the near future. Note that the list is not frozen and some items can be subject to change.

Database Diagram
Database diagram is a new type of document that represents visual layout of the database. It will implement online (directly to database) database object creation and modification. Here is a screenshot of this feature (currently under development).

Sample Database Diagram

Data Import
This feature will allow users to import data to database from most used …

We’ve packaged another alpha-version of our current work-in-progress version of workbench - version 5.1.4. We’ve added more features, fixed problems and started to build packages for Fedora Core 9 along with our binaries for Ubuntu 8.04.

MySQL Workbench OSS 5.1.4 Alpha - Linux

Source Tar Ball

ftp://ftp.mysql.com/pub/mysql/download/gui-tools/mysql-workbench-5.1.4alpha.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.mysql.com/pub/mysql/download/gui-tools/mysql-workbench-5.1.4alpha.tar.gz.md5

Binaries for Fedora Core 9

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This one was to planned to leave the hangar late last week, but a well hidden bug in the table-comparison kept us from finishing the release. But now it’s ready, the next release of our current GA release of MySQL Workbench, Version 5.0.26.
We did some minor tweaking on the UI - the property-pane now shows object-properties for objects on the MySQL-Model-Page too and we’re using another algorithm for the Autolayout-Feature (this needs to be optimized, it’s a basic implementation for now). Please check out the new version right from our main download page.