MySQL Bugs: #114899: MySQL Workbench not compatible with latest MySQL LTS release 8.4.0

Bug #114899	MySQL Workbench not compatible with latest MySQL LTS release 8.4.0
Submitted:	7 May 2024 2:52	Modified:	7 May 2024 5:00
Reporter:	Abhishek Deshpande	Email Updates:
Status:	Verified	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Workbench	Severity:	S2 (Serious)
Version:	8.0.36, 8.0.38	OS:	Any
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	MySQL Workbench 8.0.36

Description:
Since new innovation releases starting from MySQL 8.1, MySQL Workbench is showing errors that the server being incompatible/nonstandard. On version 8.4.0, the Workbench experience seems pretty unstable. I guess not all features of the newer LTS server are ported/tested in latest Workbench.

How to repeat:
1. Install the latest MySQL Server 8.4.0 LTS package.

2. Install the Latest MySQL Workbench 8.0.36

3. Try making connection a connection with the server. An error dialog is shown the server being incompatible.

4. If you continue anyway, you may experience random crashes, as well as many of the server properties like locations of the my.cnf file would be shown unknown.

Suggested fix:
Newer features are needed to be adapted in latest Workbench versions.

Hello Abhishek,

Thank you for the report and feedback.

regards,
Umesh

Bug #115681 marked as duplicate of this one.

Bug #115768 marked as duplicate of this one

Is there any chance that this could be fixed/released? 8.1 was release 18 months ago. There was a PR to address the issue (https://github.com/mysql/mysql-workbench/pull/45) but it was closed (for legal reasons)

While it works some features breaks/are unavailable even though they could work just fine…