Well here we are again.
We had no any news or other visible activity for a week or so. To be honest, last few days we tried to port DBeaver on GLaDOS. Tried very hard. At last we have no working port but at least we had a lot of fun.

From the other hand we succeded with support of other legacy systems. Here is version 1.1.3 changelist:
– Support of IBM Informix
– Support of SAP/MAX DB
– Support of Cache database
– Driver management was refactored. Now DBeaver ships with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and JTDS drivers. All other drivers could be automatically downloaded on demand.
– SQL scripts import/export
– SQL syntax highlighting/scripts parse fixes
– Identifier escaping fix

Also we updated documentation. Check for FAQ, Roadmap and About pages.

We had plans to release new version with metadata editor support, however there were too many changes in UI so we decided to make this intermediate major version. So, here it is – DBeaver 1.1.0.

Changelist:

• Major redesign of object editor/viewer
• Context search in editors (in object lists and in ERD)
• Show row count for tables (configurable, may be disabled to prevent database load)
• Display child objects in item lists (for complex entities e.g. index/constraint columns)
• ERD palette redesign (show structure of diagram content)
• Filtering of database tree depending on element properties (e.g. show only columns for views)
• Support of running background tasks view/cancel
• Real progress monitor for editor tasks
• Accelerators (shortcuts) and main/context menu update
• Configure of new SQL scripts creation (in the root or in the connection’s folder) + deletion of empty scripts on close
• Performance improvements (lazy activation of all sub-editors)
• Icons update in core/generic/mysql plugins
• Support of read-only datasources
• DB2 driver: current scheme get/set
• MSSQL driver: indent columns support
• Memory leaks fixed in SQL and ERD editors
• A lot of minor bugfixes and many minor UI changes

Thanks to everyone who sent us bug reports and feature requests, we really appreciate this!

New stable version 1.0.5 has been released!

Changelist:

• Custom Entity diagrams (ERD). Now you may create diagram with custom tables (even from different databases), layout entities automatically or manually, create logical references between entities, create descritpion notes, etc. Copy-paste and drag-n-drop are fully supported. Diagrams are saved in new special project folder “Diagrams”.
• Export ERD to image feature added.
• Global “New object” wizard added in File menu (in this release it supports Project, Connection and Diagram creation).
• Driver management was redesigned. Custom JDBC drivers problems are fixed in Linux/Unix versions.
• A few JDBC problems fixed in Generic plugin (DB2, ODBC bridge, PostgreSQL)

Have a good day and thanks for all feedbacks!

Hooray, finally, in the last day of winter we have released!

This version changes:

• Project configuration import/export (so now you can share your DB configurations with colleagues).
• 3rd party configuration import added (in this release SQL Squirrel and DBVisualizer are supported)
• Mimer and HXTT DB engines were tested and added to supported DB list (special thanks to Wolf van Heeswijk). Extra DB configurations added to generic plugin.
• Debian package is now available as Linux installer
• Many bugfixes and minor UI fixes

It took about a year of development to create DBeaver from scratch. So today is really a great day for us. Thanks to everyone who helped this project born.

In nearest days we will open discussion forum and issue tracker (Bugzilla) for public access.

RC2 is available for download!

Major new features:

• Bookmarks – any database objects can be added to bookmarks. Very usefull if you use only a little set of DB objects from a huge database with multiple schemas/tables/etc.
• Scripts management. Now scripts are saved in special folders so you won’t loose any entered queries after script close. Scripts could be organized in folders.
• Projects. Connections, scripts and bookmarks could be grouped into projects.

Additionally we have many bugfixes.

DBeaver is now tested under Firebird, Derby, HSQLDB, H2, McKoi, SmallSQL and dBase. Special thanks to Wolf van Heeswijk for testing against rare used database systems

This is the last RC version, next version will be release and it will be available in February 2011

Now we are in feature freeze mode, only bugfixes and minor changes will be added in final release version

Great thanks to everyone who wrote us emails with suggestions and bug reports – it greatly helps us to deliver quality software!

Merry Christmass and Happy New Year!

RC1 is ready for download. New major features are:

• Database objects search (tables, procedures, constraints. columns, etc)
  
  
  Generic driver supports only tables and procedures (as it provided by JDBC API) but advanced plugins (MySQL in this version) may provide as many object types as underlying database supports.
• MySQL enhancements: user and schema managemenet.
• New drivers added/updated in generic plugin (Oracle 11, Sybase).
• SQL editor autocomplete and hyperlinks are improved.

And as usually there were a lot of fixes and UI improvements.

Have a good holidays!

Sixth beta sees a light a little bit later than other betas due to a forced absence (business trip) of the main developer for a few weeks. Anyway, probably this is the last beta, we are very close to release condidate version. Hopefully it’ll be ready before Christmass.
Changes in this version:

• Resultset ordering and filtering
• Hyperlinks in object editors
• Confirmations of some user actions (like disconnect, resultset close, etc)
• Improved preferences dialogs
• Bugfixes and a lot of UI fixes