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What's new with BroadSQL 5.1.5 (2026-09-10)

New features

  • Full command line parity for administration, on every platform: 12 new commands let you manage Database Groups, Environments, and per connection login scripts entirely from the command line, without the Windows only CONFIG screen: DUPLICATE CONNECTION, SHOW INACTIVE CONNECTIONS, ADD/EDIT/DEL GROUP, ADD/EDIT/DEL ENVIRONMENT, SHOW LOGIN SCRIPT, and ADD/EDIT/DEL/MOVE LOGIN SCRIPT LINE.
  • A Connection's Database Group is now optional: a "standalone" connection can be created with no Database Group at all. Environment stays mandatory and is now validated against the actual Environment list when a Connection is saved.
  • A new built in, non production LOCAL Environment is created automatically on every Connections Definition File. PULL ... AS H2's auto created connection now registers as a standalone connection under LOCAL instead of an arbitrary existing Database Group.
  • CONFIG and ADD CONNECTION now mark, in the database type list, any type whose JDBC driver jar is not currently present (the type stays selectable, so a Connection can be prepared before its driver jar is copied in).
  • SCRIPT LIST and LIB LIST now show only top level entries by default; add ListSubfolders=true in the INI file to also list subfolder entries. The @instance and @environment header tags now also accept a comma separated list of values on a single line, in addition to the existing repeated line form.

Problems solved

  • Fixed: running PULL ... AS H2 a second time could fail to save its new connection, because it collided with the first PULL's Database Group/Environment pair. PULL created connections are now standalone, under LOCAL, so repeated PULL commands no longer collide.
  • CONNECT now fails with a clear message naming the missing JDBC driver class and where to place it, instead of a raw ClassNotFoundException, when a Connection's database type has no available driver.

Installing BroadSQL 5.1.5

See Installation.

Upgrading from previous releases

Existing Connections Definition Files are migrated automatically the first time BroadSQL opens them with this release: a LOCAL Environment is added if missing, and the columns these features rely on are added automatically. No manual steps required.

Known issues

None known at release time.

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