Beekeeper Studio Files

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

• Amazon DynamoDB support. Connect to DynamoDB and browse your tables, right inside Beekeeper Studio. Our 18th database engine.

• 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.

• 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/config are 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.log instead 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 aws4 dependency to fix MONGODB-AWS authentication. Thanks @jim-fn!
• Cassandra: UUIDs inside set and map collections 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 NaN or 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 lint now 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: https://github.com/beekeeper-studio/beekeeper-studio/compare/v5.7.3...v5.8.0

PR Merge List

95326140b Merge pull request [#4336] from beekeeper-studio/fix/query-editor 4546b8490 Merge pull request [#4317] from beekeeper-studio/claude/cloud-query-audit-refactor 134ce1cbf Merge pull request [#4320] from beekeeper-studio/fix/bastion-host-system-dark-theme fda64b3a1 Merge pull request [#4326] from beekeeper-studio/fix/plugin-menu-style 740219956 Merge pull request [#4316] from beekeeper-studio/claude/funny-johnson-5BkhG cb0529f59 Merge pull request [#4325] from beekeeper-studio/chore/ai-shell 67a168d64 Merge pull request [#4324] from beekeeper-studio/fix/file-picker-style 178edb3a4 Merge pull request [#4306] from beekeeper-studio/fix/ident c80521c77 Merge pull request [#4310] from beekeeper-studio/claude/admiring-brown-kGgNQ 2cac7ad56 Merge pull request [#4283] from beekeeper-studio/fix/querystream d1b009808 Merge pull request [#4302] from beekeeper-studio/fix/sticky-schema-builder-header 031060574 Merge pull request [#4174] from beekeeper-studio/claude/fix-disconnection-issue-RVGZv f1a5a99b7 Merge pull request [#4291] from beekeeper-studio/dependabot/npm_and_yarn/js-cookie-3.0.7 ac8196ebb Merge pull request [#4281] from beekeeper-studio/dependabot/npm_and_yarn/ws-8.20.1 284326f8d Merge pull request [#4290] from beekeeper-studio/dependabot/npm_and_yarn/uuid-11.1.1 2e3da91aa Merge pull request [#4293] from beekeeper-studio/claude/optimistic-wozniak-OeLRx 3706b6a1a Merge pull request [#4213] from beekeeper-studio/claude/fix-rce-vulnerabilities-lAdce 98a178eb0 Merge pull request [#4204] from beekeeper-studio/claude/improve-db-test-coverage-8puAu 8d2c59a28 Merge pull request [#4257] from vaibhavvikas/feature/show-empty-connection-folders 55afcb8c6 Merge pull request [#4295] from beekeeper-studio/fix/update-ident 235389c35 Merge pull request [#4229] from beekeeper-studio/chore/fix-lint-script 0dae9e9e5 Merge pull request [#4263] from jim-fn/fix/aws4-mongodb-aws-auth 40d66f522 Merge pull request [#4280] from beekeeper-studio/fix/backup-tests fb98c9d08 Merge pull request [#4264] from beekeeper-studio/claude/youthful-meitner-aWbHD ee404916c Merge pull request [#4284] from v-astakhov/greengage-icons da709f403 Merge pull request [#4120] from beekeeper-studio/dynamo-db 936c44af2 Merge pull request [#4217] from beekeeper-studio/feat/query-audit-history b3a686d58 Merge pull request [#4271] from beekeeper-studio/upgrade-panel-everywhere e5c6ec977 Merge pull request [#4270] from beekeeper-studio/upgrade-modal-update bcbeb0636 Merge pull request [#4254] from beekeeper-studio/claude/youthful-meitner-6hF4A 6fc55e3b7 Merge pull request [#4267] from beekeeper-studio/claude/fix-workspace-license-bug-qhRMR 262b7d8ae Merge pull request [#4253] from beekeeper-studio/fix/entra-docs e17cfa93b Merge pull request [#4255] from beekeeper-studio/claude/animate-upgrade-prompt-mJpbf abfe5dd9c Merge pull request [#4249] from beekeeper-studio/dependabot/npm_and_yarn/protobufjs-7.5.8 0ee24df47 Merge pull request [#4245] from beekeeper-studio/dependabot/npm_and_yarn/protobufjs/utf8-1.1.1 009f84f37 Merge pull request [#4252] from beekeeper-studio/claude/fix-license-validation-error-I6AaN decf5c042 Merge pull request [#4237] from beekeeper-studio/dependabot/npm_and_yarn/babel/plugin-transform-modules-systemjs-7.29.4 1b85c8ba3 Merge pull request [#4242] from beekeeper-studio/import-modal-fixes 17433a00c Merge pull request [#4239] from beekeeper-studio/claude/gifted-mayer-XYKkF 97460d319 Merge pull request [#4233] from beekeeper-studio/chore/ci-tweaks b732a279c Merge pull request [#4220] from andreasarf/bugfix/cassandra-uuid-collection 0b8a47ebf Merge pull request [#4230] from beekeeper-studio/chore/cache-e2e-deps a092039b5 Merge pull request [#4228] from beekeeper-studio/chore/security-dep-bumps-followup 2c34165d5 Merge pull request [#4227] from beekeeper-studio/chore/security-dep-bumps 277f14310 Merge pull request [#4224] from beekeeper-studio/fix/ssh-tests a555d2000 Merge pull request [#4201] from beekeeper-studio/fix/bastion-host-dark-bg 4a2ae18f2 Merge pull request [#4018] from beekeeper-studio/feat/driver-dep-auto-download 92999bcd3 Merge pull request [#4180] from NianJiuZst/fix/oracle-loading-state-4178 687f97f9a Merge pull request [#4210] from beekeeper-studio/claude/fix-issue-4208-9YYSz defbb37ef Merge pull request [#4190] from beekeeper-studio/claude/fix-used-connection-bug-7vqyp b1570634c Merge pull request [#4195] from beekeeper-studio/claude/fix-ssh-config-reader-h2ewM 6b1bf7b56 Merge pull request [#4131] from beekeeper-studio/chore/base-modal 5b8e8be20 Merge pull request [#4203] from beekeeper-studio/claude/fix-reproducible-bug-EfH6F 2ad1d2054 Merge pull request [#4198] from beekeeper-studio/fix/write-actions-shortcuts e86f6ca5a Merge pull request [#4191] from beekeeper-studio/fix/checkbox-context-menu 35de793a4 Merge pull request [#4176] from beekeeper-studio/fix/fake-remote-change 5342f086d Merge pull request [#4097] from beekeeper-studio/dependabot/npm_and_yarn/follow-redirects-1.16.0 a2495f437 Merge pull request [#4156] from beekeeper-studio/dependabot/npm_and_yarn/xmldom/xmldom-0.8.13 fce264eac Merge pull request [#4164] from beekeeper-studio/updated-readmes-1777052053 6f9db1780 Merge pull request [#4130] from v-astakhov/greengage-docs 44cc179e2 Merge pull request [#4135] from beekeeper-studio/claude/upgrade-sql-formatter-4qM3D 82244998c Merge pull request [#4118] from beekeeper-studio/claude/fix-backend-bug-DaCn1