Archive for February, 2008

MySQL Workbench – Unscheduled Beta Release 5.0.14a

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

We uploaded a updated beta release 5.0.14a to our mirrors yesterday. There was a small issue (with not so small effects) where some users were unable to open files created with earlier versions of MySQL Workbench. Please fetch this update to avoid this problem.

MySQL Workbench 5.0.14 beta released

Monday, February 25th, 2008

A few days behind schedule, we can announce that the new beta - version 5.0.14 - has reached our mirrors. A bunch of improvements and fixes are incorporated in this release. The software rendering mode has been changed to using Windows GDI instead of the mesa-library. This change brings a ...

New MySQL Workbench Release Coming Up

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

We are about to release the next Beta version of MySQL Workbench. There are no new additions like in the last release. This will strictly be a bug-fix build. Apart from several smaller fixes this build will see an improved software rendering performance. Alfredo has blogged about the changes in ...

On the Workbench Canvas Performance

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Some people might have noticed that Workbench runs very slowly and flickers a lot in their machines. Other people will be able to work without noticing any significant sluggishness with the diagram graphics. The difference is because Workbench's custom canvas may use hardware accelerated OpenGL graphics or non-accelerated software rendering, ...

Beta 5.0.13 of MySQL Workbench available for download

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

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 ...

Tell me what your code looks like…

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

From time to time it is necessary to get a bigger picture of your project in terms of size, test coverage, code vs. comments ratio and others (aka metrics). While it is quite difficult to find a good (and free) code coverage tool for C++ there is already a very ...