You can keep up with the latest developments in MySQL software in a number of ways, including various blogs and other channels. However, for the most correct (if somewhat dry and factual) information, you can go directly to the source. 

Major Releases 

For every major release, the MySQL docs team creates and maintains a "nutshell" page containing the significant changes in that release. For the current GA release (whatever that is) you'll find it at this location:

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/mysql-nutshell.html

 At the moment, this redirects to the summary notes for MySQL 5.6. The notes for MySQL 5.7 are also available at that website, at the URL http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-nutshell.html, and …

Recently a several releases of MySQL Server were announced to our mailing lists. Do not miss following news:

• Announced releases:
  • Jun 6, 2013 - MySQL Server 5.1.70
  • Jun 6, 2013 - MySQL Server 5.5.32
  • Jun 6, 2013 - MySQL Server 5.6.12
• More can be found at: …

This is the current (and supposed to be the last) MONyog release in the 5.5x series.  Refer online documentation for details of changes in this and previous releases.  The major scope of all releases in 5.5x series has been improving stability, performance and responsiveness under heavy load -  such as large number of servers both registered and displayed at the same time, user activity by multiple users at the same time, ‘query sniffer’ running in the background etc.  We have worked with a number of customers using MONyog in such demanding environments during the 5.5x development phase.

Changes in this 5.57 release (as compared to 5.56) include:

Bug fixes:
* The rendering of Monitors and Dashboard …

Hi,

64 bit SQLyog is here. It’s no secret that you can make the most out of your PC only when you have the right combination of software, operating system and hardware. You can now take full advantage of your 64 bit environment for your MySQL needs. We are proud to offer the first 64 bit GUI client for Windows.

Additionally, if you are using 64 bit Microsoft Office 2013, SQLyog 11 will work out of the box with the 64 bit drivers shipped with it. Importing from Access, Excel or Text/CSV has never been easier.

Please refer the following posts for detailed release notes:

• SQLyog 11.0 Beta 2 Released
• …

You had requested for a visual tool to compare two instances of a table to spot differences. We heard that. We are delighted to introduce Visual Data Compare (VDC) in SQLyog 10.5. It lets you do exactly that, and more. VDC allows you to compare two tables right next to each other making it easier to spot differences. It is a lot simpler than manually figuring it out all by yourselves.

VDC also doubles as an additional option for data sync. With VDC you will be able to compare differences visually and specify tables and rows that shall be synced as well as to decide in what direction to sync. It comes very handy when you want to copy lookup data from development databases to staging or production in cases where you for any reason don’t feel safe about having an automatic sync job running unattended in the background.

Visual Data Compare in action

What’s more in this release:

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We have released SQLyog MySQL GUI 10.4. The 2 major new features are:

* Autocomplete speed/performance is drastically increased. This is the 3rd time we do this actually since autocomplete was introduced in SQLyog 5+ years ago. Our autocomplete implementation is one of the highest appreciated features of SQLyog according to a survey we did among registered users recently. However some slugginess could occur with a very large number (tens of thousands) databases on the server or a similar number of  tables or other objects in a database. Also a number of small bugs in autocomplete were fixed.

* Also when having a lot of databases, tables or other objects, operating a GUI tool may be tedious to work with (you may need to do a lot of scrolling, for instance). In this release we have implemented a filter in the Object Browser. It works like this: Database objects, where the typed …

Hi,

You have been using MONyog to monitor your MySQL servers. You connected your servers with MONyog and collected data to analyse later. MONyog did a great job analyzing past performance. If you know something is wrong and don’t have MONyog monitoring your MySQL, you cannot do much to fix things right then. You’ll have to first add your MySQL to MONyog and wait till data collects.

Not any more. Introducing real-time monitoring with MONyog 5.5. It tells you what’s happening on your MySQL server RIGHT NOW. It details key metrics like top 200 queries, slow queries, locked queries, locking queries, tables, databases, users, hosts and thread states, all of this in real-time as it happens. Information is retrieved from the server every one second. And the best part is that you can get started with real-time with just a click of a button without the overhead of enabling logs.

Please refer to …

One of our users has published a “Quick Manual to SQLyog” to his blog.

Sometimes you do better writing about a subject as an ‘outsider’ than as an ‘insider’.  As an ‘insider’ you easily take things for granted that are actually not obvious for everyone.  This is a good example of this – and the writing is excellent. Enjoy!

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Please note that users upgrading from a version before 5.2 will need a new registration code. Registered customers will get the new code from our Customer Portal. Please have the new code available before installing. Until MONyog is registered with the new key, it will not be collecting data from your servers.

Changes (as compared to 5.21) include.

Features:
* Introduced support for ‘native’ MySQL SSL-encryption with direct MySQL connections.
* MONyog now fully supports IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6).
* History-trends have been optimized to retrieve data faster than it was before. With large data sets this results in a speed improvement in the range of a factor ~25 .
* Passwords for MONyog users are no longer stored in clear text. A hash is stored (for admin user in MONyog.ini – for other users in the embedded database). Also MySQL passwords as …

Changes (as compared to 10.12) include:

Features:
* Saved connections can now be exported and imported. The option is available in the ‘tools’ menu.
* Added an option to open exported CSV and Excel XML files directly with the program associated with the file extension on the system.

Bug fixes:
* Exporting Schema Designer canvas as image on Wine generated empty boxes for tables with no information about columns. It is actually a bug in Wine (incomplete Windows API implementation for drawing routines) .
* The height of GRID-cells will now adjust to fit font setting for the GRID .

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