Note: You can already get a preview of v13 for Windows, built on the same codebase as the Linux version. See the
download page for a zip package.

3rd party updates:

• update SQLite library to v3.51.0

Bugfixes and enhancements:

• fix: crash when grid-exporting without required key (issue #2311)
• fix: cannot save new table when added column was removed (issue #2326)
• fix: delete CLI-created session settings from registry after disconnect (issue #2162)
• fix: query batch stops at second last query if it has errors but StopOnErrors is off (issue #2317)
• feat: support SSH tunnel configuration per commandline (issue #2322)
• disable tree option asDoubleClickInsertsNodeText by default (issue #2307)
• fix: require elevation per build button only if app directory is not writable by user (issue #2305)
• feat: keep time fractions intact for CSV exports (issue #2098)
• fix: crash in AnyGridPaintText with no query result
• feat: show NULL values in system variables listing (issue #1281)
• feat: highlight same text in grids based on all selected rows
• fix: crash in printer dialog with 0 printers available (issue #2283)
• feat: support fractional UNIX timestamps in grids (issue #884)
• feat: add "source table: xyz" hint to query result column headers https://www.heidisql.com/forum.php?t=44554

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3rd party updates:

• Issue #2076: exchange 32 bit SSL libraries with their 64 bit pendants, fixing SSL connections with libpq and libmariadb

First Linux version as a release with a tag.

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Full changelog: https://github.com/HeidiSQL/HeidiSQL/commits/lazarus/

Latest notable changes:

• SSH tunnel support now works, using external ssh command, like in the Windows version
• Translation support for 35 languages, through .mo files. Thanks to all the translators on Transifex!
• Icons on status bar
• Enable bracket highlighting in SQL editors
• Grid cell editors working (with quite a few crashes)
• Enabled automatic tab restore
• Table editor and the others (view, routine, trigger, event) working now
• All forms now use Lazarus' excellent anchorings for controls

Known issues:

• #2149: Missing support for MS SQL and Interbase/Firebird
• #2131: Crashes in grid cell editors, especially after hitting the Esc key
• #2143: No .rpm package for RedHat based Linux. Help appreciated.
• #2141: no wordwrap in SQL editors

A big thanks go to the Lazarus team for providing such a nice and responsive IDE. Congratulations for releasing Lazarus 4.0 these days. HeidiSQL for Linux is yet built with Lazarus v3.8 and FreePascal v3.2.2.

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3rd party updates:

• Update plink executables to v0.83. See https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
• Update MariaDB Connector/C to v3.4.5. See https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-connector-c-3-4-5-release-notes/
• Update SQLite libraries to v3.50.1. See https://www.sqlite.org/
• Update SQLite multiple cipher libraries to v2.1.3. See https://github.com/utelle/SQLite3MultipleCiphers/releases/

New stuff:

• Issue #604: add context menu item "Select top 1000 rows"
• Issue #2175: if asShowRowId option is enabled, show also the index of columns in their header, through the OnAdvancedHeaderDraw/ownerdraw event
• Issue #2168: select rows from table to export by its primary key columns, so PostgreSQL does not apply a random sorting
• Issue #2155: paint session background and icon in session drop-down of SQL export dialog
• Issue #2107: add "invert check" menu item on table tools tree
• Issue #2068: support MariaDB's new VECTOR index in table designer, without M and DISTANCE settings yet
• Issue #2068: support MariaDB's new VECTOR data type in table designer, categorize as binary
• Issue #2083: add menu item "Copy all lines" for copying visible and initialized nodes from any VirtualTree instance as CSV data
• Issue #1975: add "keep asking" checkbox to reformat dialog
• Issue #646: forget setting for "Favorite objects only" on each connection start
• Issue #2064: support UTF-8 BOM encoding when loading and saving editor files

Bugfixes and enhancements:

• Issue #1253: fix index creation on PostgreSQL tables, use separate CREATE INDEX queries
• Issue #2187: Fixed EAccessViolation when closing editor while using non-default theme
• Create helper table with the servers' default engine when exporting a view. See https://www.heidisql.com/forum.php?t=44125
• Issue #2186: fix wrong number of rows shown in grid export dialog when post filter is active
• Issue #2118: activate legacy-stdio-prompts mode in plink SSH tunnel, to fix non prompted passphrase since plink 0.82
• Issue #604: sync number of rows to query with the per-page data grid setting
• Issue #604: support multiple tables and views selected on database tab, in new "Select top 1000 rows" feature
• Issue #2172: fix wrong comment
• Issue #2172: prompt for password again, when connection has timeout or broke
• Issue #2159: fix memory leak
• Issue #2159: SQLite: export separated table indexes, and export views and triggers
• Issue #2168: turn off synchronize_seqscans variable in PostgreSQL mode, to be sure SELECT's show a stable row sorting. See https://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/runtime-config-compatible.html#GUC-SYNCHRONIZE-SEQSCANS
• Issue #1853: try to fix column definition changes on MS SQL wrt collation quoting and default value
• Issue #2155: high DPI fix for painting icons in SQL export target drop-down
• Issue #2156: unescape generated column expression when loading from IS.COLUMNS
• Keep retrieving exact row count on data tab header after activated via context menu, until another table has focus
• Display number or rows in data tab header for views. See https://www.heidisql.com/forum.php?t=44057
• Issue #214: when refreshing, ask user if he wants to discard modifications in table/view/routine/... editors
• Prefer Boolean over Bool type in owned code
• Issue #2139: fix missing AND's in REQUIRE clause, and move REQUIRE clause from GRANT to ALTER USER query, as MySQL does not support that in GRANT since v8.x
• Issue #2133: revert broken characters and encoding of apphelpers unit
• implementation of Unicode logic for password encryption
• Issue #2132: fix crash when saving an sql file previously loaded with auto-detected encoding
• Issue #2123: prevent crash in libpq when disconnecting an already disconnected connection
• Issue #2128: fix wrong encoding of connection string for PQconnectdb()
• Issue #2123: fix reconnect mechanism in TPGConnection.Ping()
• Issue #2119: optimize calculation of status bar panel widths
• Issue #1986: do not set CLIENT_SSL flag with libmariadb, which seems to cause a "bad handshake" in mysql_real_connect()
• Issue #2103: fix latin1 charset used with libmysql v8.x which reports "utf8mb4" by mysql_character_set_name()
• Issue #2101: attempt to reactivate progress bar in status bar when running through Wine, now with a safety check for IsWindow()
• Update default functions-mysql.ini with predefined line breaks and much more help content
• Update functions-mysql8.ini with predefined line breaks and much more help content
• Enable padding in multiline tooltips with a derived THintWindow class
• Reduce web page openings to once after successful nightly update
• Wrap long lines in data type hints. See https://www.heidisql.com/forum.php?t=43881
• Simplify and optimize functions generator for MariaDB, and update functions-mariadb.ini with predefined line breaks
• Issue #2095: fix wrong/no control characters used when changing format to Excel csv via file-save dialog
• Issue #2083: use empty field delimiter and tab separator for new copy-lines feature
• Issue #2085: tell TStringStream.Create not to free its TEncoding object after usage, as we use application-lifetime-available encoding instances
• Issue #2084: show numeric values in variables tab locally formatted in a tooltip
• Show type of exception happening through AppSettings.ExportSettings
• Issue #835: move prompt for overwriting output file from save-dialog to later when exporting is started, catching cases where the previous filename is used
• Issue #2079: work with the "default" set of SQLite encryption parameters, not the transient ones
• Prevent connection activity through hovering table token while user query is running. Similar to issue #278

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Full changelog: https://github.com/HeidiSQL/HeidiSQL/commits/lazarus/

Latest notable changes:

• Most of the updates done on the Windows version, plus:
• Issue #2197: Can't set logging due to file not open error
• Issue #2182: mariadb cannot add users
• Issue #2177: Sort icons in column headers of data and query grid
• Issue #2165: Support libperconaserverclient for MySQL
• Issue #2189: wrong digit separator localized version

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The v12.12 release now abandons the 32 bit portable releases and nightly builds.

Back in Jan 2019, for v10.0, I created the first 64 bit release with the support of the Delphi 10.3 at that time. Since that release I provided both 32 and 64 bit releases for more than 6 years now. Due to the decreasing availability of 32 bit drivers and libraries, and with a user base of ~0.5% it makes sense to safe the effort for these. Note the previous releases with 32 bit variants are still available on the download page.

Also notable: heidisql.com has been moved to Manitu, an excellent hosting provider in Germany. Update checks, SQL formatting and statistic calls should benefit from the enhanced speed.

New stuff:

• Issue #2254: Support for trigger editing on SQLite

3rd party updates:

• Upgrade compiler to Delphi 12.3.
• Update MariaDB Connector/C to v3.4.7
• Add MySQL Connector libmysql v9.0.4
• Update SQLite libraries to v3.50.4
• Update SQLite multiple cipher libraries to v2.2.4.
• Update PostgreSQL libpq/17 to v17.0.6
• Update PostgreSQL libpq/15 to v15.0.14
• Remove PostgreSQL libpq/10 and 12, depending on the outdated and insecure libssl v1.1.1w
• Update Virtual-TreeView component to v8.2 from Sep 5 2025

Bugfixes and enhancements:

• Issue #2161: fix reading and writing user limitations in newer MySQL versions
• Issue #2126: rephrase SQL query for retrieving the oid of citext data type, to prevent errors in the server logs
• Issue #2257: fix height of grid column header
• Issue #2122: support table comment syntax when creating new PostgreSQL tables
• Issue #41: use N(ational) prefix on MS SQL strings on all quoted strings, regardless of their exact data type, to support Unicode in meta queries as well
• Issue #2167: remove fallback to insecure http calls when https failed
• Issue #2250: use N(ational) prefix in MS SQL for any text value going through the second version of EscapeString(), supporting Unicode now when importing a file into a table.
• Fix unsaved highlighter selection of default "General"
• Fix memory leak
• Issue #2249: call FixVT() in FormCreate consequently, so the trees do not change their row height after the second use. Also increase TextMargin and reduce Margin.
• Issue #2243: keep UserKnownHostsFile enabled in ssh.exe mode, so the message saying "permanently added xyz to the list of known hosts" is telling the truth now
• Do not require a "Content-Length" response header in THttpDownload. Responses mostly come compressed with "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" and then need hacks to get a Content-Length header. See https://www.heidisql.com/forum.php?t=44407
• Issue #1313: support MariaDB's COMPRESSED attribute for columns in table editor
• Issue #2243: suppress prompt to save a yet unknown host key in ssh.exe mode, by disabling StrictHostKeyChecking and UserKnownHostsFile . I have no clue to where ssh.exe sends that message, it's neither in stdOut nor in stdErr.
• Issue #2243: fix input being ignored by plink by adding a linefeed after y/n
• Issue #2243: add -legacy-stdio-prompts argument only to plink v0.82 or newer, not on older versions
• Issue #2233: fix detection of column length in SQLite, when the column type contains a space before parenthesis
• Issue #2212: add type prefix to export file name, when exporting one file per object, to fix overwriting same filename for different object types
• Issue #2218: don't disable completion proposal when cursor is right besides a string or comment
• Issue #2205: Remove subpart from column indexes when user changed its data type to non-text
• Issue #2193: expect some more characters to indicate a boundary for an identifier: ! < >
• Table data generator: use only space, new line and letters in text columns, and limit to 1024 characters
• Issue #176: move foreign key column value behind the text value, in the grid foreign key drop-down, so a user may select an item by typing letters
• Leave space for column id in grid column headers. See https://www.heidisql.com/forum.php?t=44161
• Issue #2266: Invisible virtual column syntax is generated wrong

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Full changelog: https://github.com/HeidiSQL/HeidiSQL/commits/lazarus/

Latest notable changes:

• Most of the updates done on the Windows version, plus:
• Fix a bunch of compiler warnings and hints
• Update check: do not confuse users with a changelog link of the Windows version, and hide (Windows) nightly build text
• Issue #2201: allow GetSessionNames() to create the given ParentPath if it does not exist, in this case the empty "Sessions" root key
• Let PortOpen() return true when netstat command could not be run, to prevent loops with broken commands
• Remove dead comments from THttpDownload
• Issue #2225: fix crash in grid editing, when canceling through Esc key
• Issue #2225: fix crash in grid value change, apply patch from hennerdrewes with Application.QueueAsyncCall in DoEndEdit
• Prefer UTF-8 encoding for loading files, instead of auto-detection, which breaks in many cases. See https://www.heidisql.com/forum.php?t=44351
• Issue #2229: prefer const over constref for FPC>=3.2.4, fix unsupported TabOrder on TSpeedbutton, pass a float value to FloatToStr
• remove unused units from uses clause in lpr project file
• Issue #2221: fix wrong detection of table alias and following dot, with text after the current cursor position
• Issue #2221: enhance SQL completion proposal in a way SynEdit/Lazarus propagates it, with a focus on column names
• Issue #2227: enable formatter for JSON code in text editor
• Issue #2203: auto-convert Windows home path to Linux home path when importing a setting file
• Issue #2222: fix missing last character in CREATE TABLE code on table editor and copy-table dialog
• Issue #2202: show a more helpful hint when no library was selected (and none is available) for connecting
• Issue #2216: remove predefined SynMemo keystrokes ecLineBreak, ecInsertLine, ecDeleteWord. The latter one inactivates Ctrl+T shortcut for new query tab
• Issue #2202: prefer libmariadb over libmysql when none of them is installed. Also, prefer the -dev packages.
• Issue #2202: depend on libgtk2.0-0t64, openssl and openssh-client. Also, require all of the database driver libraries so users are not potentially left with an empty library drop-down.

New stuff:

• feat: sort sessions and folders according to user locale (#1828)
• feat: sort session folders at top per setting (#1828)
• feat: filter box in user manager (#2275)
• add checkbox "Open file after creation" to grid export dialog (#912)

Bugfixes and enhancements:

• fix: sort empty session folders like non-empty ones (#1828)
• fix: set modified flag after move per button (#2220)
• fix: column reordering per drag and drop (#2220)
• fix: list procedures in PostgreSQL(#2278)
• fix: missing DELETE HISTORY privilege on MariaDB (#1026)
• fix: prevent crash in auto-refresh action (#1060)
• fix: bad message with no library selected (#1020)
• Table data generator: generate missing values for geometry columns
• allow modify length of index with binary column (#900)
• fix no longer working move up/down of selected columns, see https://www.heidisql.com/forum.php?t=44467 (#2220)
• end global "edit function" mode for grid editing early (#875)
• take care for escaped ENUM definitions (#799)
• work around non-greedy expression when extracting the return data type of a stored function with a space in it. (#768)
• safety replacement for folder separator when renaming a session or folder (#682)
• leave away schema when double-click table for inserting into query editor (#551)
• fix sticky empty-password warning after setting a non-empty one (#441)
• allow sorting columns in table designer by click on their header (#2220)
• ignore semicolon between double-dollar quoted strings when separating SQL queries by semicolon, e.g. $$ foo; bar $$ (#1326)