Sequel Pro Blog

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.

We’ve been working hard for the last 2 months and finally have a great new release to announce!

Sequel Pro 0.9.4 is a crucial update for all users. If you are on Sequel Pro 0.9.1 or later you should see a software update for 0.9.4 the next time you open Sequel Pro.

You can download a copy of Sequel Pro 0.9.4 (release notes) from the download page.

Consider adding the FeedBurner RSS Feed to your RSS Reader to keep track of the latest progress with the Sequel Pro project.

The first release candidate for Sequel Pro 0.9.4 is now available. Download Now

This update brings a whole host of user interface improvements and bugfixes. Some highlights are:

• improved performance over slow connections
• added pagination to large result sets
• console now has it’s own window
• improved user experience when editing/adding new rows
• improved auto-completion when writing queries
• better handling of connection dropouts
• improved import/export and encoding handling
• misc other improvements and fixes
• full release notes are available here

Everyone please download this version and report any bugs you find to the issue tracker.

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.

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Peace!
— The Sequel Pro Team

We would like to welcome three new programmers to the team: Mark Townsend, Rowan Beentje, and Stuart Connolly. Thanks guys!

We haven’t released a new version since October, so Sequel Pro 0.9.3 is jam packed with new fixes and usability features. This update is recommended for all users.

You can download a copy of Sequel Pro 0.9.3 (release notes) from the download page.

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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. 

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