Redgate Flyway

Flyway Desktop 8 release notes

8.5.1 - 10 September 2025

Note: This release has been pulled

Improvements

  • Users are now asked for confirmation when closing a project before saving to the Schema Model

Fixes

  • Fixed issue where per-environment placeholders would be removed when environment display name was updated

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.12.1-rc671
  • Electron: 38.0.0

8.5.0 - 04 September 2025

New Features

  • Generate migrations without a shadow database is now out of preview

Improvements

  • Added support for more advanced parameters for migrations commands

Changes

  • The old schema model UI has been removed. This will only have an effect if the new schema model UI was disabled in the settings.

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.12.0-rc644
  • Electron: 38.0.0

8.4.6 - 01 September 2025

New Features

  • Added styling to indicate rows on tables are clickable

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.11.3-rc621
  • Electron: 37.4.0

8.4.5 - 29 August 2025

New Features

  • Added wizard to help users set up schema model on first time set up
  • A WHERE clause can now be specified for each static data table to filter out unwanted data for SQL Server.

Changes

  • Remove Flyway pipelines icon from app header

Fixes

  • Fixed issue where static data table would render as unscrollable and go off the page

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.11.3-rc613
  • Electron: 37.4.0

8.4.4 - 20 August 2025

Improvements

  • The dropdown in the static data page is now auto focused if the user has not tracked any tables

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.11.2-rc588
  • Electron: 37.3.1

8.4.3 - 14 August 2025

Improvements

  • Made tables compact in static data modal so that more information can be displayed

Fixes

  • Fixed issue where the check command response would not be parsed successfully when it contained differences in SQL Server objects with no schema.
  • Fixed orientation of icons in static data table

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.11.1-rc568
  • Electron: 37.2.6

8.4.2 - 13 August 2025

Fixes

  • Fixed issue where the UI became unresponsive when selecting a large number of rows on schema model development database objects table

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.11.1-rc555
  • Electron: 37.2.6

8.4.1 - 11 August 2025

Changes

  • It is now possible to open Flyway .conf files from the landing page. They no longer appear under import. They will be upgraded to toml format while maintaining a backup as before.
  • Added summary after initial save to schema model, with chance for user feedback

Fixes

  • Fixed some links on automated deployment page

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.11.1-rc541
  • Electron: 37.2.6

8.4.0 - 07 August 2025

New Features

  • New automated deployment page which generates a recommended deployment script to run in your CI environment and provides links to associated resources.

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.11.0-rc512
  • Electron: 37.2.6

8.3.8 - 31 July 2025

Improvements

  • Adds a “Save” button to the Deployment script review step
  • Adds a “Download Git” button that appears when Git isn’t detected. Clicking it opens the official Git download page.

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.10.5-rc486
  • Electron: 37.2.4

8.3.7 - 29 July 2025

Improvements

  • Improved visibility around the state of checking for updates banner

Fixes

  • Removed some unnecessary refreshes of migrations view caused by migrations comparison and generation
  • Fixed UI performance issue when interacting with a large number of invalid objects during baselining process

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.10.5-rc470
  • Electron: 37.2.4

8.3.6 - 23 July 2025

Improvements

  • Static data modal will now update with table details once they are loaded and a table is selected
  • Increase visibility of option to open a project from source control

Fixes

  • Fix issue with search bar in soon to be retired old Schema Model page
  • Fix issue where duplicate rows would be shown in the invalid objects table during baselining

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.10.4-rc443
  • Electron: 37.2.3

8.3.5 - 21 July 2025

Improvements

  • Adjusted the size of the Repeatable cell in the Migrations Table for better display
  • Removed the Copy to Clipboard button from Repeatable rows in the Migrations Table, as they are not required
  • Fixed typo in comparison option description

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.10.4-rc421
  • Electron: 37.2.3

8.3.4 - 17 July 2025

Improvements

  • Updated the Migrations table’s empty‑state text

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.10.3-rc406
  • Electron: 37.2.3

8.3.3 - 14 July 2025

Improvements

  • Now handle trust server certificate errors in the server connection dialog in the SQL Server sample project

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where database connection errors in the connection dialog might not be displayed correctly.

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.10.3-rc385
  • Electron: 37.2.1

8.3.2 - 11 July 2025

Improvements

  • Now list updated files on schema model save success.
  • It is now possible to select a remote branch when there is no local branch
  • Add remote now attempts to checkout the default remote branch to help avoid divergent histories
  • Initial commit will now prompt to optionally add remote to help avoid divergent histories

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.10.3-rc382
  • Electron: 37.2.1

8.3.1 - 08 July 2025

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where the sample project tour’s close button could not always be clicked

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.10.2-rc349
  • Electron: 37.2.0

8.3.0 - 08 July 2025

New Features

  • The sample project button on the home page now creates a sample SQL Server project, complete with tutorial, within the application.

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.10.2-rc349
  • Electron: 37.2.0

8.2.3 - 04 July 2025

Improvements

  • Added more explicit description to checkbox for creating a project folder when creating a new project

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.10.1-rc337
  • Electron: 37.2.0

8.2.2 - 02 July 2025

Improvements

  • Added handling for SQL Server untrusted certificate errors, allowing for quicker connection resolution when it is ok to trust the certificate
  • Added some more verbose logs during the splash screen
  • Improved warning message content on update development page

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where errors larger than the screen height when generating migrations could not be scrolled

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.10.1-rc322
  • Electron: 37.0.0

8.2.1 - 27 June 2025

Fixes

  • Fixed issue parsing migrate errors, which might affect errors updating the shadow database on the Generate Migrations page

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.10.0-rc309
  • Electron: 34.3.0

8.2.0 - 26 June 2025

New Features

  • Added a new filter UI to create and edit filter files for SQL Server projects.

Improvements

  • Add filtering and quick search to schema model views

Fixes

  • Fixed issue where database connection credentials might not be retrieved from local secret storage. The connection needs editing and resaving via the connection dialog for the fix to work.

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.10.0-rc307
  • Electron: 34.3.0

8.1.2 - 13 June 2025

Improvements

  • Updated UI of the generate migrations without shadow feature.

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.9.2-rc211
  • Electron: 34.3.0

8.1.1 - 04 June 2025

New Features

  • New Environments page for adding, editing and deleting connections to Development, Shadow and Target databases

Fixes

  • Fixed issue where remote git branches would fail to appear in the VCS tab

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.9.1-rc175
  • Electron: 34.3.0

8.1.0 - 03 June 2025

New Features

  • Added Static Data support for PostgreSQL

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.9.1-rc169
  • Electron: 34.3.0

8.0.7 - 30 May 2025

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue when using Flyway Desktop on a non Windows platform connecting to an Oracle database
  • Fixed an issue where there was no way to continue if a generated script was too large to load. Flyway Desktop will now display placeholder text instead

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.8.3-rc153
  • Electron: 34.3.0

8.0.6 - 27 May 2025

Fixes

  • Fixed listing of schemas in the target databases modal so that they are now properly separated

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.8.3-rc137
  • Electron: 34.3.0

8.0.5 - 22 May 2025

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.8.3-rc125
  • Electron: 34.3.0

8.0.4 - 20 May 2025

Changes

  • Made starting a trial more discoverable in Community edition

Fixes

  • Fixed issue where git diffs would not show in projects nested relative to repository root

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.8.3-rc117
  • Electron: 34.3.0

8.0.3 - 15 May 2025

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.8.3-rc112
  • Electron: 34.3.0

8.0.2 - 14 May 2025

New Features

  • Added support for Table Partitioning in PostgreSQL

Improvements

  • Updated UI for choosing a deployment source

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.8.3-rc108
  • Electron: 34.3.0

8.0.1 - 09 May 2025

Fixes

  • Fixed issue of missing library when running comparisons after upgrading from most recent versions of Flyway Desktop to version 8.0.0

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.8.2-rc90
  • Electron: 34.3.0

8.0.0 - 07 May 2025

(Note: this release has been pulled)

Breaking Changes

  • Removed support for the deprecated flyway-dev.json configuration file format.
  • flyway-dev commands under preview have been removed. All of these capabilities are now directly available through flyway commands

New Features

  • New schema model view, making it possible to view all object definitions in the application
  • New Update development page for applying schema model changes to the development database
  • Migrations can be generated without a shadow database

Library Versions

  • Flyway: 11.8.2-rc78
  • Electron: 34.3.0

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