If you haven’t heard the news yet, MySQL 8.0 is apparently the next release of the world-famous database server.

Obviously abandoning plans to name the next release 5.8, Percona Server’s upstream provider relabelled all 5.8-related bugs to 8.0 as follows:

Reported version value updated to reflect release name change from 5.8 to 8.0

What will MySQL 8.0 bring to the world?

While lossless RBR has been suggested by Simon Mudd (for example), the actual feature list (except a Boost 1.60.0 upgrade!) remains a secret.

As far as bug and feature requests go, a smart google query revealed which bugs are likely …

I just joined Chocolatey, which is sort of like yum or apt-get for Windows. HeidiSQL was already listed there but was outdated, so I created a package with the current 9.3 release.

See the package here: https://chocolatey.org/packages/HeidiSQL

Certificate for installers and nightly builds

Finally I bought a certificate at certum.eu to sign the HeidiSQL installers and nightly build files. The latest built installer and nightly builds now don't show a warning message in Windows 7, 8 and 10 any longer. Instead, Windows 7 displays the certificate owner in a dialog when executing:

For all Open Source developers - here's my tutorial for obtaining and managing a code signing certificate using signtool.exe.

Markdown syntax support in this forum

After updating most webserver components on heidisql.com I thought I could add Markdown support to the forum. Markdown provides an easy-to-read, …

If you're one of the users having updated HeidiSQL this morning to revision 5002, then you will surely see a crash when starting heidisql.exe . This is due to an accidental commit of a file with unfinished changes from me. Sorry for that. I have just reverted that in revision 5003.

As the program crashes at the very start, you won't be able to update HeidiSQL automatically. As a solution, you can use the installer from that fixed build for updating:
32/64bit: http://www.heidisql.com/installers/HeidiSQL_9.3.0.5003_Setup.exe
32bit only: http://www.heidisql.com/installers/HeidiSQL_9.3.0.5003-32_Setup.exe

See this forum thread for details.

With the new GA release 6.3.5 we finally also managed to bring MySQL Workbench to Github. This is something we planned for quite some time and now the repository is part of the MySQL group at Github. Go Workbench…

Dear MySQL users,

The MySQL developer tools team announces 6.3.5 as our GA release for
MySQL Workbench 6.3.

For the full list of changes in this revision, visit
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/workbench/en/changes-6-3.html

For discussion, join the MySQL Workbench Forums:
http://forums.mysql.com/index.php?152

Download MySQL Workbench 6.3.5 GA now, for Windows, Mac OS X 10.7+,
Oracle Linux 6 and 7, Fedora 21 and Fedora 22, Ubuntu 14.04 and
Ubuntu 15.04 or sources, from:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/tools/workbench/

The MySQL server supports a variety of client connection methods. To summarize: you have TCP/IP (v4 and v6) on all OSes (with or without TLS/SSL encryption), Unix Domain Sockets on Unix/Linux, and Named Pipes and/or Shared Memory on Windows.

Each of these connection methods has its own set of pros and cons: speed, security, portability, and ease-of-use.…

Why Should I Be Reading This?

To better understand how the MySQL Server functions, how to monitor the relevant server events, and find out what’s new in MySQL 5.7.8.

What’s Special About the Audit Plugin API?

Picking the right API for your new plugin is probably the most important design decision a plugin author will need to make.…

MySQL User Camp Bangalore, organized on 26th June, 2015, was a huge success with an excellent turnout of 49 attendees. We got many users from different companies, like Flipkart, Snapdeal, CTS, Capgemini, Yahoo, VMware, HCL, Datavail, Bosch, Rakuten and more. The event started on time with a welcome speech by Balasubramanian Kandasamy, (Principal Member Technical Staff, […]

Dear MySQL users,

The MySQL developer tools team announces 6.3.4 as our GA release for
MySQL Workbench 6.3.

For the full list of changes in this revision, visit
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/workbench/en/changes-6-3.html

For discussion, join the MySQL Workbench Forums:
http://forums.mysql.com/index.php?151

Download MySQL Workbench 6.3.4 GA now, for Windows, Mac OS X 10.7+,
Oracle Linux 6 and 7, Fedora 21 and Fedora 22, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu
14.10 and Ubuntu 15.04 or sources, from:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/tools/workbench/