Flyway Desktop 8 release notes
Published 07 May 2025
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 throughflyway
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