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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 0.9.5 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.

Getting Involved
If you are interested in helping out on the Sequel Pro project, have a look at the Getting Involved page.

We are currently looking for programmers and graphic designers to help out, in making Sequel Pro the best Database Management app on Mac OS X.

Source Code

Instructions for checking out the very latest version of the source code are now available. Download a copy of the Xcode Developer Tools from http://connect.apple.com/ and build your own copy of Sequel Pro.

Nightly Builds 

If you don’t have access to the Developer Tools, you can grab the latest build of Sequel Pro daily from our Build Server.

New Release Coming Soon..
The next version of Sequel Pro (0.9.4) is noticably faster! Imports, exports and general browsing — All faster! Sequel Pro 0.9.4 will be an evolutionary release, no significant new features.

Keep your RSS readers pointed to the Sequel Pro blog for our next release announcement.

Sequel Pro Statistics

Sequel Pro has been incredibly popular since we launched nearly a year ago. We have had more than 50,000 downloads of Sequel Pro in total, with more than 25,000 of those from our latest 0.9.3 release.

New Features in the Mix for Sequel Pro 1.0

User Privileges Management, Export Interface Redesign, Redesigned Preferences Window, Contextual Menus

Coming from CocoaMySQL 0.7b6 to Sequel Pro some of you have noticed that the User management system went missing. Unfortunately we haven’t been able to get our hands on the source code for this, to include it in Sequel Pro, but the great news is that Mark is currently working on a fresh new user interface for managing privileges.

Your workflow may require that you Import and Export (or backup) several databases daily. Ben is currently redesigning the export dialogue with a unified interface for exporting to many popular file formats.  

A fresh new preferences window and contextual menus are also on the cards for our next big release, thanks to Stuart.

We are working hard to get these and many other exciting features out the door. 

Donations

We would like to thank the generous users who have offered monetary contributions to the project, so far. We are almost half way to our goal of $US1000 which we will be putting towards a new app icon for Sequel pro. If you would like to help out it’s as simple as clicking the orange donate button on the donate page.

Keep your RSS Reader subscribed to this blog for all news and updates about Sequel Pro.
 

Peace!
— The Sequel Pro Team

New Website Screenshot

The Sequel Pro project has been developing rapidly since we started with two developers in April 2008. With six developers now, we thought it was time for the project to have it’s own dedicated web space.  

We have some great ideas for Sequel Pro and this website, already in development. The online documentation for the Sequel Pro app will be online by the next point release.

If you are currently linking to the Google Code project or MJMedia website from your blog/forum please consider updating to the new http://www.sequelpro.com/ website. 

Add the FeedBurner RSS Feed to your RSS Reader to keep track of our developments.

We are now the official successor to the CocoaMySQL project.

Links to the final beta versions of CocoaMySQLand CocoaMySQL-SBG are available on the Release Archives page.

We have maintained a great deal of the information from the CocoaMySQL SourceForge website[cocoamysql.sourceforge.net] including screenshots, credits and general project information. 

We would like to thank all of the contributors to the CocoaMySQL project, especially Lorenz Textor, for making this our favourite MySQL database management app on Mac OS X

Sequel Pro 0.9 is now available for download from the Google Code Project website.

This release brings a bunch of user interface changes, including a fresh new project icon.

Sequel Pro v0.9 is available to download from the Release Archives. A full list of the changes in this version are on the Release Notes page.