MySQL Bugs: #96505: MySQL Workbench 8.0.17 fails to install on MacOS 10.13 High Sierra

Bug #96505	MySQL Workbench 8.0.17 fails to install on MacOS 10.13 High Sierra
Submitted:	12 Aug 2019 7:27	Modified:	7 Jan 2020 0:45
Reporter:	GreenCollar IT Manager	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Workbench	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	8.0.17	OS:	MacOS
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	x86
Tags:	High Sierra, macos, mojave, workbench

Description:
On the MySQL Workbench downloads page, it states: "Packages for Mojave (10.14) are compatible with High Sierra (10.13)”. However, the latest version of Workbench, does not install successfully on Mac OS High Sierra with the system reporting that MacOS 10.14 Mojave is required to run it.

How to repeat:
Install MySQLWorkbench 8.0.17 on MacOS High Sierra 10.13.

Thank you for the bug report. Could you please provide a screenshot of the error message. Thanks.

Screenshot of error message when running Workbench 8.0.17 on MacOS 10.13

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Hello!

Thank you for the  bug report.
We've checked internally and confirmed from WB(Marcin S) Developer that we are longer supporting < macOS 10.14 versions and same can be confirmed from the "Supported Platforms: MySQL Workbench" i.e https://www.mysql.com/support/supportedplatforms/workbench.html
Verifying this bug report so that incorrect information present in the download page is corrected/removed i.e "Packages for Mojave (10.14) are compatible with High Sierra (10.13)".

regards,
Umesh

As an additional note: MySQL Workbench only supports the latest OS versions for macOS (and Windows + Windows Server), however there's a transition period of a few months after a new release of macOS came out, where it still supports the previous OS version.

Users that must stay with an older macOS version can only use an older MySQL Workbench release.

[12 Aug 10:57] Mike Lischke wrote:
...
>Users that must stay with an older macOS version can only use an older
>MySQL Workbench release.

What - so, in this case High Sierra users must go from 8.0.16 back to 6.3.10?  Isn’t that a bit drastic? How about warning us of the cut-off for previous version support so we can at least keep as much feature parity with the latest version as possible by not upgrading?

Did you upgrade from 6.3.10 actually or why do you mention that here? As I wrote in my comment above, a specific MySQL Workbench version only supports the latest macOS version (of that time of its release, of course, plus some transition period). That obviously means you should pick a version that came out around the release of macOS 10.14 (or shortly after) to still get support for 10.13. That would include 8.0.16, 8.0.15 and 8.0.14 (the last one being released close to the macOS 10.14 release date).

13 Aug 7:27] Mike Lischke wrote:

“...That obviously means you should
pick a version that came out around the release of macOS 10.14 (or
shortly after) to still get support for 10.13”

Well yes - I’d like to be able to do that, but can’t see how to do that now. Those earlier versions (8.0.14-16) don’t seem to be available - only the last earlier release; i.e. 6.3.10.

You can find older versions of WB in the archives https://downloads.mysql.com/archives/workbench/

[13 Aug 8:37] Simon Vacker wrote:

>You can find older versions of WB in the archives
>https://downloads.mysql.com/archives/workbench/

Ok - thanks for that Simon.

Posted by developer:
 
Out-of-date content was removed from https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/ 
and the platform policy was restated in documentation with a link to 
https://www.mysql.com/support/supportedplatforms/workbench.html added.

You can still run the Workbench 8.0.16, downloads are available on the net. I just restored mine WB from a TM backup (After reinstalling the macos 10.13 and finding out that WB 8.0.17 won't run).

FWIW, in Info.plist the LSMinimumSystemVersion is 10.11.0, which is El Capitan, so if the application truly doesn't support earlier OS versions, that's at least one bug.  

That said, unless WB now implements Dark Mode (without fallback), I can't think of any reason why the latest version wouldn't run on MacOS versions >= 10.11, as of 8.0.18.

This bug may be closed, but the MySQLWorkbench download page still erroneously claims that "Packages for Mojave (10.14) are compatible with High Sierra (10.13)” on the latest version (8.0.18). It has been established that is NOT the case since v 8.0.17. Fix please.

My Mac OS'versin is High Sierra (10.13) too.

And I also noticed that "Packages for Mojave (10.14) are compatible with High Sierra (10.13)” on https://downloads.mysql.com/archives/workbench/.

So, I download the 8.0.18 version.

And finally I came here.
Thank you all the same!

There is a well known bug in MySQL workbench, v.8.22 and all versions. The application will not run on MAC catalina. there is no solution nor work around

I have an issue with the Mysql workbench not supporting macOS Monterey 12.6.5 
    "You can’t use this version of the application “MySQLWorkbench” with this version of macOS. You have macOS 12.6.5. The application requires macOS 13.0 or later."

Please take a look at it.

You can see the mysql workbench and it throws error and the os version.

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