MySQL Workbench 5.2.17 Beta 7 Available

[Johannes Taxacher]

Dear MySQL Users,

The MySQL Workbench Team is proud to announce Beta 7 (5.2.17).
As you will see, for Beta 7 we focused on UI and usability.

This Beta includes:

- Fixes for 69 bugs.
- P1 - 4, P2 - 21 , P3 - 41 and P4 - 3.
- New Windows UI components
- New “look” for windows version
- Modern style tab-controls
- New UI, toolbars and sidebar-placements
- Easier to use
- Improved look and feel
- Distinct User Snippets
- Pre-Loaded DML and DDL Snippet Libraries
- SQL Editor
– All DDL Statements for changes are available.
- Results menu bar
- In Output
   – added Details Pane for Action and Message

And there’s more, so check it out and see for yourself.

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  
valuable feedback. We have fixed many bugs since last release and  
worked on some other details as well.
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  
Administrator, we look forward to your feedback on all the new  
capabilities we are delivering in a single unified MySQL Workbench

As always, you will find binaries for the various platforms on our  
download pages.

Please get your copy from our Download

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

To get started quickly, please take a look at this short tutorial.

MySQL Workbench 5.2 Beta Tutorial

   http://wb.mysql.com/?p=406

Please be aware that this release is still a beta version – so please  
don’t use it on your production servers! Also note, MySQL Workbench  
files saved with version 5.2 cannot be opened with previous versions  
of our program.

The files for several platforms have been pushed to our main server  
and should be available on our mirrors.

Blog postings and general information – including build instructions  
for Linux – can be found on our Workbench Developer Central site.

Workbench Developer Central

   http://wb.mysql.com

Workbench Documentation and details on changes between releases can be  
found on these pages

   http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/index.html

   http://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 to  
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 to  
your feedback and bug reports.

- The MySQL Workbench Team