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We would like to give our wonderful developers a pat on the back (and a high five) and a thank you to you especially, the users, for downloading and telling your friends how great you think Sequel Pro is!

While we’re in a party mood, we are happy to announce the release of Sequel Pro 0.9.8!

Take a look at this list, there’s something here for everyone:

• User Management
• 64 bit Build
• Table triggers support
• Custom query:
• - placeholder support including lists
• - text macros and tab triggers
• Improved autocomplete (including table and field names)
• Overhauled CSV mapping interface including defaults and updates
• Improved printing support
• Stability++
• New crash reporter for you to help us make finding bugs easier!

Read the full release notes for a more detailed list of changes.

If you happen to encounter any bugs check the issue tracker first, and report anything new you find. Any questions can be posted to Google Groups.

If you use Sequel Pro on a regular basis, please consider donating $10 or $20 to the project.

Download Now! | Release Notes | Donate

Today we are offering a new release candidate of our next version of Sequel Pro 0.9.8.

Download a copy of the app, test and report any bugs you find. Please focus your testing on the following new features:

• User management
• Table triggers support
• Custom query placeholder support including lists, custom query text macros and tab triggers
• Improved custom query autocomplete including table and field names
• Overhauled CSV mapping interface including defaults and updates
• Improved printing support
• Greatly improved stability
• New crash reporter

Sequel Pro is now a full 64 bit build.

Check the issue tracker and report any new bugs you find in this release.

Any questions can be posted to Google Groups.

Update: We’ve fixed over 20 issues thanks to your testing – Release Candidate 2 is now available and is linked below.

Download 0.9.8 Release Candidate 2 | Full Release Notes

This version brings a lot of new features and improvements:

• New application icon!!
• New server processes panel
• Query favourites editor
• Filter editor
• Improved tooltips including image previews
• Pagination interface for the content view
• Much faster (and more stable) import and export
• Early support for document-based connections
• Ability to stop custom query and content loads
• Introduction of threading for some tasks

Read the full release notes for a more detailed list of changes.

Note we have made changes to the way Query Favourites are stored. If you use Query Favourites and anticipate that you will revert to 0.9.6 please read this article on Backing up your Preferences file.

Check the issue tracker and report any new bugs you find in this release.
Any questions can be posted to Google Groups.

If you use Sequel Pro on a regular basis, please consider donating $10 or $20 to the project.

Download Now! | Release Notes | Donate

You can take the new icon for a spin in our latest 0.9.7 Release Candidate.

We thought it was time for a new icon! The inspiration behind this great icon was to create something that really represented visually what we want from Sequel Pro: an easy-to-use Mac database client.

The dolphin legacy

The dolphin (synonymous with MySQL – the world’s most popular open source database) was first featured in the icon created by Walter Lee Davis for the original CocoaMySQL. We carried the dolphin into the Sequel Pro icon all the way up to our 0.9.6 release, but now it’s time to say goodbye!

MySQL will always be our primary database, but our roadmap also includes support for SQLite and PostgreSQL. So, when deciding on what to include in our new Sequel Pro icon we decided that the database disks could stay, but the dolphin had to go. Sorry!

We are pitching ourselves for a spot in your dock alongside some of the best mac developer tools including Coda, Things and Versions (among others); we really think you’ll love this new icon in your dock!

About the icon

The icon was created by Na Wong, an extremely talented designer from Hong Kong whose work you might have seen before in Postman (iPhone), EventBox (now called Socialite) and Dropzone.

Graphic Artist/UI Designer Wanted

Na recently gave up freelance work to work at SourceBits, so we are now looking for a new graphic artist to fill his shoes.  If you have a portfolio of  exceptional work, preferably experience with Mac icons we would love to hear from you.

The release candidate of Sequel Pro 0.9.7 is ready for your testing pleasure.

Highlights of the new features in this version are:

• New application icon!!
• New server processes panel
• Query favourites editor
• Filter editor
• Improved tooltips including image previews
• Pagination interface for the content view
• Much faster (and more stable) import and export
• Early support for document-based connections
• Ability to stop custom query and content loads
• Introduction of threading for some tasks

Check the issue tracker and report any new bugs you find in this release.
Any questions can be posted to Google Groups.

Download 0.9.7 Release Candidate | Full Release Notes

Note to testers: We have made changes to the way Query Favourites are stored. If you use Query Favourites and anticipate that you will revert to 0.9.6 or run both 0.9.6 and this release candidate side by side please read this article on Backing up your Preferences file.

Version 0.9.6 is a major upgrade. SSH Tunnel support is now built right in to Sequel Pro. You can now filter long lists of tables and sort/edit your custom query results. We now have built-in foreign key support and have included some significant speed and memory usage improvements.

Download Now! | Release Notes | New* Keyboard Shortcuts

New Feature Screenshots

SSH Tunnel Support

Foreign Key Support

Foreign Key Support

The team has been working on some great features over the last two months. We are really excited about this new release!

Here’s the quick rundown — an overhauled connection window including SSH tunnel support, updated interface, filterable tables list, foreign key support, sortable and editable custom query results, native MySQL help support and significant speed and memory usage improvements.

This is a release candidate folks, so the usual applies.. Please try out the new features above and help us make sure that we have a release that is ready for the masses.

Report any bugs to the issue tracker.
Any questions can be posted to Google Groups.

Update: We’ve fixed a few issues thanks to your testing – Release Candidate 2 is linked below.

Download 0.9.6 Release Candidate 2 | Release Notes

Version 0.9.5 is the best release we have delivered so far, and we have plenty more great features lined up. We would like to introduce two bright new coders who have joined the team, and helped out on the latest release.

Marius Ursache

Marius lives in Timisoara, Romania and works as a PHP developer for a leading multinational company. In his spare time, he enjoys skating, jogging and spending time with his better half.

Marius has made some wonderful contributions to the project, including the overhauling of the printing system.

Hans-Jörg Bibiko

Hans-Jörg lives in Leipzig, Germany, and works as programmer, database administrator/developer, and computer scientist in the linguistic fundamental research. In his spare time he enjoys improving open source applications mainly for Mac OSX, improving his Japanese-German Kanji lexicon, traveling, and learning as much as he can.

Hans-Jörg has made some major improvements to the Custom Query window including improved syntax highlighting, improved completion suggestions, auto-uppercase keywords, added MySQL/Web Help functionality, and main editor functionality.

Please join me in thanking Marius and Hans-Jörg for all their excellent work on the project.

Here it is — The release you have been waiting for! Download your copy.

Sequel Pro 0.9.5 is jam packed with tons of new features and bug fixes. This latest build of Sequel Pro is the most polished and feature packed release so far.

As of 0.9.5, Sequel Pro now requires Mac OS X Leopard 10.5+ to run.

If you are still running Mac OS X Tiger, don’t stress, we have a Tiger build just for you. The Tiger build has been optimised for users running Mac OS X Tiger, and it is not recommended for Leopard users.

0.9.5 brings over 60 new features & tweaks.

• The import issues experienced since 0.9.4 have been resolved.
• Interface across all windows have been cleaned up to have a more consistent OS X look and feel
• The preferences have been redesigned from the ground up.
• The auto-updating framework has been updated. Avoids a number of previous problems.
• Connection window redesigned functionality wise.
• Query editor now has syntax colouring, line numbers, and whole host of other goodies
• Console window has live filtering as well as export.
• Printing now automatically paginates and supports page set up
• Various memory leaks and bug fixes
• … and many more

Check out the full release notes for details. Download Sequel Pro 0.9.5.

If you use Sequel Pro on a regular basis, consider donating $10 or $20 to the project.

We’ve been hard at work over the last few weeks and have a spectacular new release nearly ready for prime-time.

Please download a copy of the 0.9.5 Release Candidate and try it out.

We have some fantastic improvements and new features in this release and we want to make sure that when everyone updates to 0.9.5 next week that we have the best release possible!

Just some of the new features are:

• Updated Preferences, Refreshed UI Icons, Syntax Highlighting, Searching in the Console  and Custom Query now has new text-editor-like features

View the full release notes for 0.9.5.