This release brings some important features requested long ago and several patches to improve the overall tool's usability. pgModeler now supports foreign data wrappers, foreign servers and user mappings natively. Foreign tables, for now, aren't supported but in order to provide a temporary workaround for this lacking the generic SQL objects were improved in such way to store references to another objects in the model which helps to keep track of name changes and giving a touch of dynamicity to that kind of object. Another improvement is the ability to quickly filter the result set retrieved from a SQL command in the SQL execution without the need of rewrite the SQL command to get the desired data. This release also brings some changes in the available features: the first one is the ability to search for objects in the canvas by matching other attributes not only the name. For instance, you can search items by matching a keyword against object's comments, data types, schemas and some others. A second change is the categorization of the action "New object" in order to diminish the amount of items displayed in the same menu and organizing object types hierarchically. Finally, for the bug fixes, in this version they fix mainly crashes and broken code generation as well improve the objects handling in the canvas. Read the complete post to see the details about pgModeler 0.9.2-beta!

Finally, after four months, we have a new version out of the oven! This one has A LOT of changes that range from several code refactoring and performance improvements to the introduction of new interesting features like table partitioning and canvas layers. First, let's talk about the changes and improvements. The objects drawing operations received a good set of patches making it a bit faster and less memory consuming. The overall performance of the reverse engineering was improved which, in consequence, have enhanced the diff process performance as well. In the new features side, we added scene layers which goals is to introduce a new level of visual segmentation of graphical objects. Another new feature created is the support to view columns that are deduced from the relationships between these objects and the tables. In the design view, in order to be more close to the new features introduced by PostgreSQL 10+, pgModeler is now capable of handling declarative table partitioning. Besides, tables and views can have their attributes paginated or even collapsed to minimize the area occupied by them making big objects easier to visualize. Finally, about the bug fixes, several crashes were eliminated making the tool more stable for different usages, the reverse engineering received some patches so it can import correctly user-defined types in form of arrays and many others. This post will try to explain some of these changes and new features in details. Check it out!

This release does not have an extensive change log but brings some long desired features as well important fixes. Some of the new features to highlight in this post are: the long awaited SQL execution cancelling feature, the compact view for a more friendly visualization of the database model, the ability to save and restore the majority of dialogs sizes and their positions and many others. Talking about bug fixes we have a small set of corrections that solved crashes as well the generation of malformed SQL commands in certain situations increasing the reliability of the tool. What is more important now is that, after staying a bit away from the project, I'm back to the road to introduce a series of new features that'll prepare pgModeler to its biggest release: the version 1.0. This is a slow work but we'll get there.

This second alpha release brings minor improvements and small fixes being the last version released this year. Some importing issues related to PostgreSQL 10 were fixed and now the users can import their databases without much problem. The diff tool was enhanced in such way that now is possible to compare two databases and not only a model and a database. There were some changes on the database design view like the ability to create relationships more easily and the ability to fade in/out the objects in the result set of the object finder tool. More details in the full post, good reading!

This release opens the path to the new major release 0.9.1 bringing some new features based upon old requests, improvements to current features and fixes for bugs reported after the launch of 0.9.0 last month. This first alpha branch finally introduces the Crow's foot notation adding an improved readability to the database models. The support is still quite experimental and has some limitations that can be removed in future releases. Another enhancement done in the tool is the ability to toggle schemas' rectangles at once without the need to do it object per object. A new automatic arrangenment algorithm was introduced and causes tables to be scattered inside their respective schemas and then scatter the schemas themselves, this will serve as a starting point for users to arrange their tables over the canvas. See the full post for more details.

After one year and three months of hard work I proudly present you the pgModeler 0.9.0. This version does not bring extraordinary changes or improvements compared to the previous alphas and betas but it closes one more development cycle delivering an even more refined product to our users keeping the main purpose of this project in mind: create a quality open source software. In order to give an idea on how this project have changed since last year, or since 0.8.2, if we place together all change log entries from the beggining of the 0.9.0 development we would have: 175 entries being them 51 new features, 58 changes/improvements and 68 bug fixes. These numbers only indicates how this project is being constantly enhanced through the years. In this post I'll briefly describe what's new, don't miss it!

This release was meant to be the final 0.9.0 but due to the several changes, bug fixes and new features introduced it was more prudent to bring it as the second beta instead of the stable version so we could gather as many as possible feedbacks and fix any remaining issue in order to finally launch the pgModeler 0.9.0 stable. The new pgModeler brings lots of new features mainly related to the database modeling, but there are several changes and fixes in other areas of the software that will make it even more reliable and easy to use.

This is the last release before we can finally launch the stable 0.9.0. The development of this version was mainly focused on improving the user's experience on high resolution monitors by introducing an automatic machanism that is capable to resize dialogs, objects and fonts according to the current screen settings. This support is quite experimental and will be polished in the next releases. Another feature introduced was the support to browse the referenced rows as well the referrer rows in data manipulation dialog which will improve the the whole data handling experience. How these features work, their drawbacks and limitations are fully explained in this post. Don't miss it!

In this first beta release we have added some new design improvements as well important features and fixes that will improve the user's experience. Wishing to deliver as many as possible compatibility with all PostgreSQL releases of the series 9.x, we are bringing the support to indexes in materialized views which is supported by the RDBMS since the version 9.3. Another improvement added is the ability to edit object's source code (when applicable) in external editors of your choice. Now, turning to the data modeling field, the user is capable of toggle the displaying of the extended attributes area where indexes, rules, triggers and constraints are placed on tables and views. This can be useful to improve the visualization of huge models. Finally, other small improvements and fixes here and there were done making our pgModeler even more amazing. Checkout the details in the full post!

After almost four months of work we finally delivered important improvements in the design process that were requested long time ago as well several bug fixes that will make pgModeler even better to work with. If you follow the discussions in the Github community you're pretty aware that many enhancements are requested by our users. You also might know that one of the most awaited features in this project is the quick primary key creation, suggested at least 3 years ago. Well, this wait is over my friend because I'm proud to announce that this improvement is finally done! We also have introduced in this release: the object fading which will facilitate the model visualization, the ability to duplicate objects in the model, a better SQL history that is now persisted in its own file which is restored whenever the user connects to a database, and much more. In this post I will describe in details what this release have brought.