From: Johannes Taxacher Date: February 17 2010 5:17pm Subject: MySQL Workbench 5.2.16 Beta 6 Available List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/announce/663 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Dear MySQL Users, The MySQL Workbench Team has published a new beta release of Version = 5.2.16 Workbench Beta 6 build includes fixes for 67 bugs - P1 - 3, P2= - 21 , P3 - 39 and P4 - 4. In Beta 6 we've also responded to great community ideas and feedback = with various new convenience and security features: 1) Saving your profile/connection passwords in OSX keychain, gnome-ke= yring or - for windows - in a encrypted password-vault-file.=20 2) New rapid development features for generating complete SQL Select/= DML statements or names for selected objects in Query Editor to eithe= r the query area or clipboard. 3) New in the Windows version (coming to Mac and Linux soon) the abil= ity to set a preference for the placement of the sidebar in the Query= Editor (left or right side.) 4) And last but not least, we put a good bit of focus on optimizing a= nd stabilizing the administrator components. For more on these new features check out http://wb.mysql.com We want to thank all the people who have been testing MySQL Workbench= 5.2 alphas and betas and taking the time to file bugs and provide va= luable feedback. We have fixed many bugs since last release and worke= d on some other details as well.=20 MySQL Workbench 5.2 Beta 5 provides: 1. Data Modeling 2. Query (upgrade from MySQL Query Browser) 3. Admin (upgrade from MySQL Administrator) If you are a current user of MySQL Query Browser or MySQL Administrat= or, we look forward to your feedback on all the new capabilities we a= re delivering in a single unified MySQL Workbench As always, you will find binaries for the various platforms on our do= wnload pages. Please get your copy from our Download =09http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/ To get started quickly, please take a look at this short tutorial. MySQL Workbench 5.2 Beta Tutorial =09http://wb.mysql.com/?p=3D406 Please be aware that this release is still a beta version =96 so plea= se don=92t use it on your production servers! Also note, MySQL Workbe= nch files saved with version 5.2 cannot be opened with previous versi= ons of our program. The files for several platforms have been pushed to our main server a= nd should be available on our mirrors. Blog postings and general information =96 including build instruction= s for Linux =96 can be found on our Workbench Developer Central site. Workbench Developer Central =09http://wb.mysql.com Workbench Documentation and details on changes between releases can b= e found on these pages =09http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/index.html =09http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/wb-change-history.html If you need any additional info or help please get in touch with us. Post in our forums, leave comments on our blog pages or if you want t= o talk to us directly you can visit us on our IRC channel #workbench = on irc.freenode.net. Again, thank you for trying out the Workbench beta, we look forward t= o your feedback and bug reports. - The MySQL Workbench Team