MySQL Bugs: #73157: MySQL Installer does not see that WB 6.1.7 is available.

Bug #73157	MySQL Installer does not see that WB 6.1.7 is available.
Submitted:	1 Jul 2014 12:46	Modified:	13 Jan 2015 8:29
Reporter:	Peter Laursen (Basic Quality Contributor)	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL for Windows: Installer	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	??	OS:	Any
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
Running 'check for upgrades' from inside "MySQL Installer" does not find an upgrade available for Workbench version 6.1.6.

But according to http://mysqlworkbench.org/2014/06/mysql-workbench-6-1-7-ga-has-been-released/ it should as 6.1.7 was released yesterday.

This installer should see upgrades available for the following MySQL software I have installed: Workbench, the ODBC driver for MySQL, MySQL Utilities, as well as 5.6 and 5.7 servers (but not 5.5 and older servers).

Some details that may or may not matter: My install of MySQL Installer came with the 5.7.4 server version. Workbench was installed with the MySQL Installer bundled with server 5.6.19. Next I installed MySQL 5.7.4 also from a MySQL Installer -package (resulting in that the installer from 5.6.19 was overwriten by 5.7.4 as far as I can understand).  But if that is the problem, the MySQL Installer -concept is not robust enough.

I am unsure if category here should be "MySQL Installer" or "Workbench". That depends on where/what the problem is.

How to repeat:
See above.

Suggested fix:
No idea. I am also not very much concerned about Workbench (that I never use), and am mostly reporting this in order to ensure that release procedures are in place for 5.6 and 5.7 server releases in the future, so that the MySQL Installer will see the upgrades as soon as they are available.

related : http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=72171

Thank you for the bug report. Also the 6.1.6 check for updates says it is not updates.

I forgot one detail: the "MySQL Installer" should also be able to *upgrade itself* . If not it makes no sense at all to have an *Installer installed*.

Also see http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=73166

This morning the Installer found the WB update and also an update to MySQL Utilities.

planet.mysql.com announces avaialbility of 

"MySQL Community Server 5.6(.20)", "MySQL Installer 5.5(39)"  and "MySQL Utilities 1.4" as of July 31st 2014.  My intallation of MySQL installer does not detect any of those when running in 'check for update' -mode.

I tink you shuld onlu annoucne such updates when an aready installed "MySQL Installer" is ready to handle (upgrade) them. and the announcement of ""MySQL Installer 5.5(39)" is compeltely irrelevant to non-Windows users (despie the fact thet http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ provides downloads of 5.5.9 for all supported platforms.

Besides I don't nderstand the different phrasing in 
"MySQL Community Server 5.6" and "MySQL Installer 5.5". They are both a packages inlcuding the "MySQL installer" and a set of server binaries +  utilities - right?

This kind of communicaton to users is just ridiculous! The only explanation I  can find is that those who communciate do not have the slightest clue about what they are communicating about.