MySQL bug in benerator 0.5.8

Unfortunately a critical bug has made it into release 0.5.8 and completely breaks MySQL support - but only MySQL is affected. The bug is fixed in the subversion repository, so if you urgently need to use MySQL either go back to benerator 0.5.7 or build a new version from the Subversion repository. I will make benerator 0.5.9 a bug fix release and release it within the next two weeks.

benerator 0.5.8 released

benerator is the leading open source performance test data generator. It has a strong emphasis on generating valid data even for complex constraints and of being platform-independent. So, you can define generators for your business domain, exchange them freely (under GPL) and reuse them for creating data for different target platforms. It is highly extendible as well by supporting a wide range of service provider interfaces and can execute scripts in SQL, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Groovy and other script languages.

This release provides many enhancements requested by the community, e.g. importing Excel(TM) sheets, support for the Firebird database, custom decimal separators like ',', female family names (in slavic languages), Russian names, improvements of the project wizard and several improvements in user convenience. All known bugs are fixed.

Download the release at sourceforge and see the project web site at databene. Find the release notes at sourceforge.