This maintenance release of SQLyog, MySQL GUI introduces a new feature – REGEX search in Object Browser – and adds a few bug fixes.

Changes as compared to MySQL GUI 12.4.1 include:

Important notice:

* The tunneler file for HTTP-tunnel has been updated with this release and must be replaced on the server.  Earlier HTTP-tunnel required PCRE-support in the server-side PHP-environment. Now it does not.

Features:

* Search function in Object Browser now supports regular expressions.

Bug Fixes:

* Fixed a rare connection failure using SSH-tunnel to specific BSD systems.
* Removed unnecessary virtual column check for older servers with no support for this.
* Fixed a crash when a …

This release introduces a new major feature – ‘read-only’ connections – as well as Kerberos authentication support and a few bug fixes.

Changes as compared to MySQL GUI 12.3.3 include:

Features:

* Added an option for defining a connection as ‘read-only’.  There is a checkbox in the connection settings and when checked the title bar will inform user about the ‘read-only’ state. In ‘read-only’ state statements that write cannot be executed. For more details please see note at the bottom.
* Added support for the MariaDB auth_gssapi (Kerberos) plugin. This plugin is available with the latest 3.0 (alpha) Connector/C from MariaDB. But there seems to  be a huge popular demand for this already, and we have backported it to the 2.3 connector version we use in SQLyog.  Note that support …