Version 6.6.8 - UX improvements
Published: 2025-10-31
We are happy to announce new version 6.6.8 of DbGate, which brings several UX improvements and support for Redis Cluster. Unfortunately, we also had to move some features from Community to Premium edition.
Redis Cluster support (Premium)
We improved Redis support by adding support for Redis Cluster. You could now connect to Redis Cluster and work with it similarly as with standalone Redis database.
UX improvements (Community)
This version brings several smaller UX improvements, from suggestions by our users:
- Added “Close tabs to the right” options
- Ability to disable filter
Better NPM and Windows package security
We improved security of our packages by signing them with trusted certificates. Windows executable is now signed with Azure trusted signing certificate, and NPM packages are signed with GitHub OIDC provenance signing for better security. NPM package repository changed its policy after recent supply chain attacks. Although DbGate was not affected by this attack, NPM now requires all packages to fully comply with new security policies.
Important notice: Because of this change, Windows installations will not auto-upgrade to version 6.6.8. You will need to manually download and install this version from download page.
Features moved to Premium
After more that a year of commercial development of DbGate, we had to make some hard decisions regarding features available in Community edition. To be able to continue development of DbGate, we had to move some features from Community to Premium edition. These features are:
- Master/detail views
- Foreign key lookups
- Column expansions
- Tab split view
- Advanced export/import
- Data archives
- Group by in grid view
- Macros
You could stay with version 6.6.7 of DbGate Community, which preserves old functionality. However, we recommend to upgrade to latest version 6.6.8 to benefit from security improvements and bug fixes.
What is not touched by this change:
- Connection capability
- No limitations on number of connections, queries, rows, filters ets. DbGate Community remains fully functional database management tool.
- DbGate Community remains free and open source software
Complete changelog after version 6.6.5
6.6.8
- CHANGED: Windows executable now uses Azure trusted signing certificate
- CHANGED: NPM packages now use GitHub OIDC provenance signing for better security
- CHANGED: Some features moved to Premium edition (master/detail views, FK lookups, column expansion, split view, advanced export/import, data archives, grouping, macros)
6.6.6
- ADDED: Allow disable/re-enable filter #1174
- ADDED: Close right side tabs #1219
- ADDED: Ability disable execute current line in query editor #1209
- ADDED: Support for Redis Cluster #1204 (Premium)