Happy summer everyone! Well here in Texas things are getting a little toasty, so thought we'd celebrate with an equally hot Beekeeper Studio release 🔥🔥.
Included: A brand new database driver, query edit history for workspaces, automatic driver downloads, better SSH config support, and a long tail of bug fixes, security hardening, and UI polish.
Highlights
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Amazon DynamoDB support. Connect to DynamoDB and browse your tables, right inside Beekeeper Studio. Our 18th database engine.
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Query Edit History. Every change you make to your data now gets recorded, so you can see what was run, when, and by whom. Backed by a refactored cloud audit API client for team workspaces.
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Automatic driver downloads. Some database engines need heavy native drivers that we'd rather not ship with every build. There's now a framework that downloads the right driver dependency on demand, the first time you need it, instead of bloating the installer for everyone.
Lowlights
Day has been working hard on a Snowflake driver, it's almost done, but wasn't ready in time for this release like we expected.
Azmi has been working on multi-hop SSH support so you can connect to your database via 2+ different jump hosts. Again, it just missed our release cutoff.
Smaller Improvements
- New upgrade panel and modal used consistently across the app, with an animated AI Shell upsell card so it's clearer what you get with a paid plan.
- Bundled AI Shell upgraded to v3.1.0.
- Empty connection folders now stay visible even when they don't contain any connections yet, so your structure doesn't disappear on you. Thanks @vaibhavvikas!
- SSH config file resolution for host aliases — host entries from your
~/.ssh/configare now resolved when connecting. - Recent connections now use the saved connection's details rather than a stale snapshot.
- Local workspace can always be selected on the connection screen, even when a cloud license check is in flight.
- Quieter production logs, with renderer messages routed to
renderer.loginstead of the main log. - Improved idle detection that combines system-level and in-app input tracking for more accurate auto-disconnect.
Bug Fixes
- MongoDB: added the
aws4dependency to fixMONGODB-AWSauthentication. Thanks @jim-fn! - Cassandra: UUIDs inside
setandmapcollections are now converted to strings instead of rendering as objects. Thanks @andreasarf! - Table View: tables show a loading spinner instead of a misleading "No Data" message while results are still being fetched. Thanks @NianJiuZst!
- Query streaming: fixed a bug that could break streamed result sets.
- Named query params are no longer clobbered when the same parameter appears more than once across several queries.
- Autocomplete now suggests columns for quoted table names and for tables used in joins.
- Saved queries keep their folder and position when saved from a query tab. Fixes the case where saving would bounce a query back to the root.
- Export progress no longer shows
NaNor percentages over 100%. - Modals with a lot of content now scroll properly instead of overflowing.
- Schema builder header is now sticky so column controls stay in view while you scroll.
- Bastion / jump host background and padding render correctly under the system dark theme.
- Plugin menus now share the same styling as the rest of the app's menus.
- File picker only shows the pointer cursor when it's actually editable.
- Page navigation no longer fires when focus is inside an editable element.
- Cassandra rename and DuckDB column-type quoting: fixed two silent bugs in the SQL change builders.
- Trial licenses: corrected the support-date expiration condition so valid trials aren't rejected.
- Write-action shortcuts, checkbox context menu, and a spurious "remote change" notification are all fixed.
- Identifier handling updated, with an integration test covering identifier updates.
Security
- Shell execution hardening: added exploit tests for shell execution paths to guard against remote code execution.
- SQL injection: fixed injection vulnerabilities in
buildDatabaseFilter. - Dependency bumps to clear a batch of advisories: follow-redirects, @xmldom/xmldom, ws, js-cookie, uuid, protobufjs (and protobufjs/utf8), @babel/plugin-transform-modules-systemjs, plus a yarn.lock refresh to clear undici, flatted, and other transitive alerts.
Under the Hood
- Database test coverage expanded significantly across the common driver interface, plus new earthdistance operator formatting tests.
- CI: trimmed the e2e PR trigger and added concurrency, cached Playwright browsers and e2e deps, and bumped some old checkout actions.
- Linting:
yarn lintnow actually lints, and a pile of ESLint rule violations and code-quality issues were cleaned up. - BaseModal wrapper component introduced to standardize modal behaviour.
- Backup and SSH tests fixed.
Thank You to Our Contributors!
Big thanks to the community folks who sent PRs for this release, including @vaibhavvikas (empty connection folders), @jim-fn (MongoDB AWS auth), @andreasarf (Cassandra UUID collections), @NianJiuZst (Oracle loading state), @v-astakhov (Greengage icons and docs), and everyone else who filed issues and helped us track things down.
Full Changelog: v5.7.3...v5.8.0
PR Merge List
9532614 Merge pull request #4336 from beekeeper-studio/fix/query-editor
4546b84 Merge pull request #4317 from beekeeper-studio/claude/cloud-query-audit-refactor
134ce1c Merge pull request #4320 from beekeeper-studio/fix/bastion-host-system-dark-theme
fda64b3 Merge pull request #4326 from beekeeper-studio/fix/plugin-menu-style
7402199 Merge pull request #4316 from beekeeper-studio/claude/funny-johnson-5BkhG
cb0529f Merge pull request #4325 from beekeeper-studio/chore/ai-shell
67a168d Merge pull request #4324 from beekeeper-studio/fix/file-picker-style
178edb3 Merge pull request #4306 from beekeeper-studio/fix/ident
c80521c Merge pull request #4310 from beekeeper-studio/claude/admiring-brown-kGgNQ
2cac7ad Merge pull request #4283 from beekeeper-studio/fix/querystream
d1b0098 Merge pull request #4302 from beekeeper-studio/fix/sticky-schema-builder-header
0310605 Merge pull request #4174 from beekeeper-studio/claude/fix-disconnection-issue-RVGZv
f1a5a99 Merge pull request #4291 from beekeeper-studio/dependabot/npm_and_yarn/js-cookie-3.0.7
ac8196e Merge pull request #4281 from beekeeper-studio/dependabot/npm_and_yarn/ws-8.20.1
284326f Merge pull request #4290 from beekeeper-studio/dependabot/npm_and_yarn/uuid-11.1.1
2e3da91 Merge pull request #4293 from beekeeper-studio/claude/optimistic-wozniak-OeLRx
3706b6a Merge pull request #4213 from beekeeper-studio/claude/fix-rce-vulnerabilities-lAdce
98a178e Merge pull request #4204 from beekeeper-studio/claude/improve-db-test-coverage-8puAu
8d2c59a Merge pull request #4257 from vaibhavvikas/feature/show-empty-connection-folders
55afcb8 Merge pull request #4295 from beekeeper-studio/fix/update-ident
235389c Merge pull request #4229 from beekeeper-studio/chore/fix-lint-script
0dae9e9 Merge pull request #4263 from jim-fn/fix/aws4-mongodb-aws-auth
40d66f5 Merge pull request #4280 from beekeeper-studio/fix/backup-tests
fb98c9d Merge pull request #4264 from beekeeper-studio/claude/youthful-meitner-aWbHD
ee40491 Merge pull request #4284 from v-astakhov/greengage-icons
da709f4 Merge pull request #4120 from beekeeper-studio/dynamo-db
936c44a Merge pull request #4217 from beekeeper-studio/feat/query-audit-history
b3a686d Merge pull request #4271 from beekeeper-studio/upgrade-panel-everywhere
e5c6ec9 Merge pull request #4270 from beekeeper-studio/upgrade-modal-update
bcbeb06 Merge pull request #4254 from beekeeper-studio/claude/youthful-meitner-6hF4A
6fc55e3 Merge pull request #4267 from beekeeper-studio/claude/fix-workspace-license-bug-qhRMR
262b7d8 Merge pull request #4253 from beekeeper-studio/fix/entra-docs
e17cfa9 Merge pull request #4255 from beekeeper-studio/claude/animate-upgrade-prompt-mJpbf
abfe5dd Merge pull request #4249 from beekeeper-studio/dependabot/npm_and_yarn/protobufjs-7.5.8
0ee24df Merge pull request #4245 from beekeeper-studio/dependabot/npm_and_yarn/protobufjs/utf8-1.1.1
009f84f Merge pull request #4252 from beekeeper-studio/claude/fix-license-validation-error-I6AaN
decf5c0 Merge pull request #4237 from beekeeper-studio/dependabot/npm_and_yarn/babel/plugin-transform-modules-systemjs-7.29.4
1b85c8b Merge pull request #4242 from beekeeper-studio/import-modal-fixes
17433a0 Merge pull request #4239 from beekeeper-studio/claude/gifted-mayer-XYKkF
97460d3 Merge pull request #4233 from beekeeper-studio/chore/ci-tweaks
b732a27 Merge pull request #4220 from andreasarf/bugfix/cassandra-uuid-collection
0b8a47e Merge pull request #4230 from beekeeper-studio/chore/cache-e2e-deps
a092039 Merge pull request #4228 from beekeeper-studio/chore/security-dep-bumps-followup
2c34165 Merge pull request #4227 from beekeeper-studio/chore/security-dep-bumps
277f143 Merge pull request #4224 from beekeeper-studio/fix/ssh-tests
a555d20 Merge pull request #4201 from beekeeper-studio/fix/bastion-host-dark-bg
4a2ae18 Merge pull request #4018 from beekeeper-studio/feat/driver-dep-auto-download
92999bc Merge pull request #4180 from NianJiuZst/fix/oracle-loading-state-4178
687f97f Merge pull request #4210 from beekeeper-studio/claude/fix-issue-4208-9YYSz
defbb37 Merge pull request #4190 from beekeeper-studio/claude/fix-used-connection-bug-7vqyp
b157063 Merge pull request #4195 from beekeeper-studio/claude/fix-ssh-config-reader-h2ewM
6b1bf7b Merge pull request #4131 from beekeeper-studio/chore/base-modal
5b8e8be Merge pull request #4203 from beekeeper-studio/claude/fix-reproducible-bug-EfH6F
2ad1d20 Merge pull request #4198 from beekeeper-studio/fix/write-actions-shortcuts
e86f6ca Merge pull request #4191 from beekeeper-studio/fix/checkbox-context-menu
35de793 Merge pull request #4176 from beekeeper-studio/fix/fake-remote-change
5342f08 Merge pull request #4097 from beekeeper-studio/dependabot/npm_and_yarn/follow-redirects-1.16.0
a2495f4 Merge pull request #4156 from beekeeper-studio/dependabot/npm_and_yarn/xmldom/xmldom-0.8.13
fce264e Merge pull request #4164 from beekeeper-studio/updated-readmes-1777052053
6f9db17 Merge pull request #4130 from v-astakhov/greengage-docs
44cc179 Merge pull request #4135 from beekeeper-studio/claude/upgrade-sql-formatter-4qM3D
8224499 Merge pull request #4118 from beekeeper-studio/claude/fix-backend-bug-DaCn1