The latest Version of our beta-candidate 5.0.13 is finally available on our servers. About 70 bugs have been addressed since 5.0.12.Workbench now features a nifty update module (can be found via the help item in the main menu) and additionally the Standard Edition has a new Catalog Diff Report Module that allows you to compare two database-catalogs and creating a text-report. This Diff-Report Module lets you select two catalogs which can be taken from the actual document, a file or a live connection to a database-server. The interface of the new module is likely to go through some changes during the next stages to GA but we decided to introduce the feature in this beta version.Have a look at the Releases Page for detailed Information on the progress of the project.

We finally got WB 5.0.12 released. It was a bit complicated to get it out because everybody was on his way to the MySQL All Company Meeting here in Orlando, Fl, and with all the meetings going on. 5.0.12 is a next important step to get closer to RC. We did not fix as many bugs as for the last releases - partly caused by the vacations around X-Mas but as well because the number of serious issues is going down. There is still a lot to be done though but the light at the end of the tunnel is clearly visible already.

Btw., if somebody did not get the news yet (which I don’t think is possible), MySQL has been aquired by Sun. It is the biggest topic here at the All Company Meeting and I think it was the best thing that could happen for MySQL as a product and for the community. What it means for the MySQL Workbench project for the moment is, that nothing will change. We will continue our road to GA as planned and are currently putting together …

We just unleashed version 5.0.11 Beta of MySQL Workbench. We fixed the nasty bug, that prevented us from releasing .11 earlier. To find out what’s new take a look at this page (You can trace all changes in detail here).

Although the filenames say 5.0.11a (notice the trailing ‘a’), what’s actually inside the packages is our official 5.0.11 beta release. That’s because we had already uploaded the files to our mirrors when we found that index-related bug on monday - so the fastest way for this release was, to add the suffix.

Please fetch the new release right away and keep up your good work with testing and reporting bugs.

For all new contributors devoted to quality, FAQ was slightly updated with new section.

We are working hard on the next release of MySQL Workbench and are trying to follow our plan of getting a release out every second week. A lot of things have already been addressed, some new things came up. But we are clearly moving into the right direction and our investments in unit tests and UI tests seems to pay off as expected. More details in a post later this week.

I just sent out the mail to the mailing lists to officially announce the 5.0.10 release. I have added an additional page that will keep track of the changes we make and it is available here. The change log file is included in the source package as well of course.

I am curious how the level of regression bugs will be. For Workbench we have a unit testing framework in place as well as an ever expanding suite of UI tests. We are using TestComplete and as long as the tool does not crash itself (which happens quite a lot, sadly) it is quite useful to automated the UI testing.

Please keep testing and reporting bugs. We will keep working hard to fix reported issues as fast as possible.

Check the forum announcement for more information installation instructions and compatibility notes.

Please report any issues and/or feedback at the Virtual Appliances Discussion Forums (forums.virtualappliances.net).

LAMP

http://virtualappliances.net/download/archive/VirtualAppliancesLAMP-xen-1.0.113.tar.bz2
http://virtualappliances.net/download/archive/VirtualAppliancesLAMP-xen-1.0.113.zip

Cacti

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These two builds represent a major milestone for Virtual Appliances- they are the first appliances we have released that have shell access enabled!

That’s right! For everybody who asked for shell access, it is now enabled! Tasks such as migrating existing Cacti data, adding/editing cronjobs, or editing the php.ini file in the LAMP VA are now easily possible using the shell.

Other new/improved features include:

• Improved networking configuration - now supports static routes (user requested feature)
• Cacti VA exports pseudo-root filesystem containing scripts and resource directory from Cacti installation. This allows end-user installed Cacti plugins & extensions.
• Cacti VA is now an easily expandable two virtual hard disk configuration, which allows for simple expansion to accomodate polling more data for large sites.
• Updated PHP, MySQL, and other binaries.
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Our new LAMP Virtual Appliance provides turnkey Apache HTTP Server, PHP, Perl, Python, and MySQL in one easy to use 65MB download.

This appliance features optional use of virtual hard disks for MySQL and web content.  Uniquely, this Virtual Appliance shares the web content via CIFS/Windows Networking for extremely easy to use content publication and mnagement.  Many popular web applications can be deployed using this appliance.

As usual, free to download and use …

For all you SNMP afficianados, a database logging SNMP client has never been easier.

The Cacti Virtual Appliance is running Cacti in just a couple of minutes with a fully automated setup, onboard MySQL and phpMyAdmin.

The Cacti Virtual Appliances comes outfitted with about 1.7 GB of diskspace, but can automatically use Virtual Hard Disks so there is no limit to how much SNMP data can be stored.

To learn more about Cacti, visit the Cacti Homepage.
Download the nano sized (40MB) virtual computer image from our downloads page.