Following our plan to release the MySQL Workbench 5.1 Beta1 later this week we have uploaded a last Alpha build for Ubuntu and the Mac for you to check for serious issues. The following binaries will not be published on our official download site but are only available trought the following links.

Please join us in our #workbench IRC channel on freenode to discuss issues or simply leave a comment here.

ftp://ftp.mysql.com/pub/mysql/download/gui-tools/mysql-workbench-oss-5.1.8-1-alpha-i386.deb

ftp://ftp.mysql.com/pub/mysql/download/gui-tools/mysql-workbench-oss-5.1.8-alpha.app.zip

To verify your downloads please check the md5 sums:

3feb64fd5dbd5384ad43c639228bb792  mysql-workbench-oss-5.1.8-1-alpha-i386.deb

08d0a13d1bbc09b27cb10cfde2f194ec mysql-workbench-oss-5.1.8-alpha.app.zip

To install use dpkg -i mysql-workbench-oss-5.1.8-1-alpha-i386.deb on Ubuntu 32bit or

unzip the file mysql-workbench-oss-5.1.8-alpha.app.zip on your Mac OS X 10.5 and drag the Workbench.app to your Applications directory.

If you want to test with an existing model file you can download the Sakila Workbench model file from here.

ftp://ftp.mysql.com/pub/mysql/download/gui-tools/sakila_full.mwb

Have fun!