Thank you very much for the great reactions and contributions we received since we put our first alpha build out last week. We have incorporated patches submitted by the community and further improved some code (even though we’re currently busy sitting together at our Database Group Developer Meeting). So we’ve prepared the next packages and put them on our server. We also updated (cleaned up) the build instructions as to remove a few dependencies which are no longer necessary with the latest code. This should make building the source and running the binaries more easy.

MySQL Workbench OSS 5.1.2 Alpha - Linux

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ftp://ftp.mysql.com/pub/mysql/download/gui-tools/mysql-workbench-5.1.2-alpha-linux.tar.gz
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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 more distributions.

MySQL Workbench OSS 5.1 Alpha 1 - Linux

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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

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 Ubuntu, our Linux distro of choice. The first one shows the MySQL Model page. The Sakila demo model has been loaded.

The second …

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 your account and download the updated SE package from there - sorry for the inconvenience.
The ongoing work on version 5.1 is making good progress, while we’re further decreasing the …

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.

I would like to say a big Thank-You to the community. It has been quite a ride this last year for my team and me, designing and coding MySQL Workbench, getting it to GA quality, presenting at the UC and constantly continue to improve quality since then. Now let’s look at the facts.

• I am happy to announce that we have reached more than 400.000 downloads of MySQL Workbench today, which is quite a lot for a highly specific tool in such a short time-frame (406690 at 18:25 GMT+1 to be exact).
• We have about as many downloads a day as the MySQL Server 5.1 server on Windows, also quite impressive I think for a little database design tool (I am only comparing Windows since Workbench is only available on Windows yet).
• The number of incoming bugs has been going down after each new release and we are now at a constantly low level. Nevertheless we are continuing our bug-fix releases while working on MySQL Workbench 5.1, …

I am happy to announce that the first Workbench plugin written by the community was published recently.Daniel Haas has written a code generation plugin for Propel, a database abstraction layer for PHP. You can download the plugin from Daniel’s blog that can be found here it is published under the GPL. He also provides the necessary steps to install the script. This is amazing in several ways. First, we have not yet published a comprehensive tutorial how to write plugins and scripts for Workbench because we have been fully loaded with other stuff. Vlad did a tutorial on this at the MySQL Users Conference but the Wiki pages have not been written yet. So Daniel took the hard way, figuring out a lot of things all by himself. Second, we are working on a better …

After some glitches - mainly introduced by switching to the new source control system - we are presenting a new release of version 5.0 (built right out of our shiny new bazaar repository). This release has another 17 bugs fixed (along with some additional adjustments to improve usability). While we are already working in parallel at version 5.1 we are constantly fixing the remaining bugs in our present release version.

The first Version after Workbench was released for GA is available now on our servers. We are constantly working on improving our application in terms of stability and handling.

Maybe you’re curious if you missed a version as the official GA release version was 5.0.19 - no, you didn’t. While preparing 5.0.20 for release, a problem was detected when running last checks on the finished packages. Unfortunately we had already uploaded the packages to our mirror-system. That’s the reason why 5.0.20 is listed as ‘internal’ in our release history (can be checked on About Releases page) and the actual published version available is 5.0.21.

Please download and update to the latest version.