Sequel Ace

Earlier

• 6.0.2-20115Oct 4, 2026Fix database renaming with views, routines, permissions, and case-sensitive names.

  • Fix database renaming with views, routines, permissions, and case-sensitive names.
  • Improve AWS sign-in renewal, IAM authentication, and reconnect recovery messages.
  • Preserve session time zones and make query cancellation safer during reconnects.
  • Fix table reload loops and filter-bar interactions.
  • Improve Unicode text limits, pasting, UUID editing, and date parsing.
  • Fix MCP SQL comment handling, read-only safeguards, and CSV exports.
  • Improve display-format and pinned-table storage reliability.
  • Fix connection-window hangs and empty split-view crashes.

  Fixed

  • Rename Database reads only its own triggers on a case-sensitive server,
  • Preserve the session time zone when reconnect restoration fails,
  • Repair Pages build timeout and refresh documentation dependencies,
  • Keep Unicode-distinct display-format cache scopes independent,
  • Resume verified release archives without expired Cloud downloads,
  • Renew aws login credentials so connections stay signed in,
  • Generate a fresh AWS IAM auth token when reconnecting,
  • Make the filter bar's WHERE preview and seeded row behave as they look,
  • Stop New Connection Window from hanging and crashing,
  • Rename Database keeps the source database when not every object moved,
  • Remove embedded Apple Menlo font,
  • Keep EXPLAIN ANALYZE out of MCP read-only mode across line breaks and comments,
  • Keep negative numbers numeric in MCP CSV exports and quote CRLF fields,
  • Require TLS for connections using the cleartext auth plugin,
  • A UUID cell edited to hyphens only is rejected instead of saved as an empty value,
  • Count string length in code points and parse dates with a fixed calendar,
  • Stop the content view reloading itself without end after a column mismatch,
  • Keep the SQLite display-format and pinned-table managers from crashing or racing,
  • Line comments end at CRLF line endings in the Swift comment strippers,
  • Wake artifact recovery through authenticated completion,
  • Recover artifacts from an existing successful release build,
  • Restore reusable workflow environment secret resolution,
  • Check release credentials and retry early artifacts,
  • Retry validated stale public-feed reads during finalization,
  • Wait for stapled notarized artifacts before publishing,

  Changed

  • Rearrange import dialog elements,

  Infrastructure

  • Update the setup-oras action to v2.0.2,
  • Bump ruby/setup-ruby from 1.324.0 to 1.327.0,
  • Update Rubyzip and compatible Fastlane dependencies,
• 6.0.1-20114Sep 21, 2026Fixed SSH tunnel connections by restoring the proven transport default while retaining the secure socket fallback

  • Fixed SSH tunnel connections by restoring the proven transport default while retaining the secure socket fallback
  • Restored AWS RDS IAM and cleartext authentication plugin connections
  • Fixed misleading Local Network permission warnings for unrelated connection errors
  • If you missed 6.0.0, Sequel Ace 6 also brings editable Record View, richer content filters, fuzzy table search, automatic JSON detection, connection-color title bars, and many import, export, compatibility, and stability improvements; macOS 13.5 or later is required

  Fixed

  • Finalize live App Store releases without submission scheduling checks,
  • Restore AWS RDS IAM and cleartext plugin authentication,
  • Stop reporting a Local Network denial for every error that mentions "network",
  • SSH tunnel: default back to Distributed Objects and let the assistant fall back,
  • Accept ready Xcode Cloud artifacts when run status lags,

  Infrastructure

  • Bump ruby/setup-ruby from 1.321.0 to 1.324.0,
  • Bump actions/upload-artifact from 4.6.2 to 7.0.1,
  • Make the new release form human-facing,
  • Add self-service release dispatch with sole form approval,
  • Make release state inspectable and recovery predictable,
• 6.0.0-20113Sep 17, 2026Sequel Ace 6 requires macOS Ventura 13.5 or later

  • Sequel Ace 6 requires macOS Ventura 13.5 or later
  • Added the new beta SSH tunnel connection transport with XPC-style audit-token peer validation
  • Added an AND/OR switch and clearer filter groups for building content filters
  • Added fuzzy type-ahead search to the tables list
  • Added filters for matching string fields by their length
  • Added automatic JSON value detection in the field editor
  • Added an option to tint the window title bar with the favorite connection color
  • Fixed Record View and inline edits using the wrong column after columns are moved or filtered
  • Fixed ENUM popup edits not being saved in sheet mode
  • Improved warnings before EXPLAIN ANALYZE statements that can modify data
  • Fixed copying and filtering BIT values to preserve their bits
  • Fixed CSV imports with multibyte encodings
  • Fixed SQL and XML exports to use UTF-8 consistently
  • Fixed Table Information dates changing format after exports and bundle commands
  • Centered import dialog menus
  • Various stability, compatibility, and interface improvements

  Added

  • Auto-detect JSON values in the field editor pop-up,
  • Filter string fields by their length,
  • Tint the window title bar with the favorite connection color,
  • Add fuzzy type-ahead search to the tables list,
  • AND/OR switch and discoverable groups for the content filter,
  • Replace an existing query favorite,
  • Add a preference to hide the filter drop zone,
  • Copy selected column values from result tables,
  • Add editable Record View,

  Fixed

  • Center import dialog menus,
  • Reconcile the prepared build before release merge,
  • Record View and inline edits use the right column after columns move or are filtered,
  • Warn before EXPLAIN ANALYZE with INTO or FOR SCHEMA modifiers runs a write,
  • Prevent table comments from overlapping table names,
  • Table Information keeps its date format after exports and bundle commands,
  • Relieve the main thread of three profiling-found hot spots,
  • Move Bevel Button position to the right,
  • Add connection error button spacing,
  • BIT values keep their bits in SQL copies and filters,
  • alignment of query elements,
  • XML exports are UTF-8, as their prolog declares,
  • SQL dumps are written in one encoding, UTF-8,
  • Split CSV imports on character boundaries for multibyte encodings,
  • Report a peer that closes before the request is written as no reply,
  • Preserve ENUM popup edits in sheet mode,
  • Harden release process around changing release notes
  • Isolate temporary GHCR credentials
  • Reconcile declared release source state
  • Accept pre-incremented release version files
  • Treat pre-incremented release sources as new releases
  • Preserve SSH tunnel failure diagnostics,
  • Prevent opt-out startup service requests,
  • Make "+"/"-" in the content filter respond immediately,
  • Use DELETE HISTORY for MariaDB privilege grants,
  • Bound utf8strlen reads to lexer token bytes,
  • Fit completion popup to its columns,
  • Restore the main window frame across window close and reopen,
  • MCP run_query tool schema: declare items for the params array,
  • Tie NSUserDefaults KVO observer lifetimes to their owning objects,
  • Point libmysqlclient at the bundled plugin directory,
  • Validate SSL files for SSH tunnel connections,
  • Authenticate release wake-state JWTs as Bearer tokens,
  • Ignore superseded prereleases in release overlap guard,
  • Restrict the favorites search shortcut to plain ⌘F,
  • Make GitHub release checks resilient,
  • Authenticate asynchronous release publisher source,
  • Authorize exact-target GitHub release mutations,
  • Handle already-deleted release branches,

  Changed

  • Prepare 6.0.0 (20112) release,
  • Import progress no longer blocks the import thread for every row or statement,
  • SPMySQLFramework: one byte-to-string conversion, truncated column names trimmed again, kill query without trailing NUL,
  • SPTextView reaches its delegate's document and tables list through a formal protocol,
  • SPCopyTable reads the tables list through an SPTableContent property,
  • SPFieldMapperController reads the tables list and database data through properties,
  • SPQueryFavoriteManager takes its SPCustomQuery delegate by type,
  • SPDatabaseStructure reads the tables list through the document's property,
  • Replace KVC private-ivar access with typed calls in SPWindowAdditions and SPImageView,
  • Fastlane cleanup and hardening
  • Prepare 6.0.0 (20111) release,
  • Prepare 5.5.0 (20110) release,

  Removed

  • Drop macOS 12 support, require macOS 13.5 (Ventura), bump to 6.0.0,

  Infrastructure

  • Move the tooltip replacement lifecycle into Swift,
  • Format a fixed instant in testOldvsNewDateFormat,
  • Format one instant in testOldvsNewDateFormat,
  • Retire the executed help-viewer and macOS 13.5 plans,
  • Retire the warnings plan, refresh the modernization plan for 2026-09-07,
  • Universal MySQL client auth plugins linked against the bundled OpenSSL,
  • Bundled MySQL client 8.4.11 built from source for the macOS 13.5 floor,
  • Rebuild recipe for the bundled MySQL client without Homebrew,
  • Rebuild the bundled OpenSSL from source for the macOS 13.5 floor,
  • SSH tunnel IPC migration step 5a: the socket transport becomes the default,
  • SSH tunnel IPC migration step 4: peer validation from the socket's audit token,
  • SSH tunnel IPC migration step 3: the socket transport, behind a default,
  • SSH tunnel IPC migration step 2: the shared wire format,
  • SSH tunnel IPC migration steps 0-1: spike verdict, narrow the vended surface,
  • Keychain SecItem migration step 5: flip the callers, delete SPKeychain,
  • Keychain SecItem migration step 4: SAKeychain, proven against the legacy store,
  • Keychain SecItem migration step 3: retire the tunnel assistant's keychain read,
  • Keychain SecItem migration step 2: fix the confirmed defects,
  • Keychain SecItem migration steps 0-1: design plan + characterization suite,
  • Cut test-scheme clean-build warnings from 104 to 78 occurrences,
  • Cut test-scheme clean-build warnings from 165 to 104 occurrences,
  • Mark the landed warning sweeps as landed in the warnings plan too
  • Refresh the development plans against main after the macOS 13.5 merge,
  • Document English localization catalog requirement,
  • Cut clean-build warnings from 358 to 162 occurrences,
  • Cut clean-build warnings from 532 to 358 occurrences,
  • Extract favorite duplicate detection into SAFavoriteDuplicateMatcher,
  • Adopt Apple's SwiftUI invalidation guidance (view boundaries, closure bindings),
  • Host the SwiftUI connection screen in the standalone window (C3),
  • Extend the SwiftUI connection form to every connection type (C2b),
  • Migrate the drag-out payloads off the deprecated write API (step 9b, part 2),
  • Fix the flaky pid-file race in the command runner test,
  • Ship the Xcode MCP server and document the windowless workflow,
  • Migrate the internal drag reorders off the deprecated write API (step 9b, part 1),
  • Adopt the formal AppKit validation/editing protocols (step 9a),
  • Validate GitHub release payload compatibility,
  • Swift 6 readiness: remove captured-var mutation in concurrent code,
  • Remove deleted RC1 publisher exception,
  • Preserve compatible GitHub release publisher identity,
  • Derive release builds from Apple state,
  • Rewrite the MySQL help viewer on WKWebView,
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