The new MySQL Workbench version 6.2 has its usual share of new features but also brings some big improvements that will be very welcome even to long time users that only need the bread and butter basic functionality. Here’s the list:
Spatial Data Viewer
MySQL 5.7 will include much awaited GIS support for InnoDB tables. To make it easier to quickly visualize spatial/geometry data in geographic context, Workbench 6.2 includes a viewer for resultsets containing that type of data. The viewer will render data from each row as a separate clickable element. When clicked, you can view the rest of the data from that row in the textbox. If you have multiple queries with geometry data, you can overlay them in the same map. 
Geometry Data Viewer
Both the Field and Form Editors were updated to support the GEOMETRY datatype. You can view geometry data like polygons from a single row as an image or as text, in any of the common WKT, GeoJSON, GML or KML formats. 
MS Access Migration
MS Access support was added to the Migration Wizard in MySQL Workbench 6.2, joining MS SQL Server, Sybase ASE, Sybase SQL Anywhere, PostgreSQL, SQLite and “Generic ODBC” as migration sources. You can read more about it in How-To: Guide to Database Migration from MS Access using MySQL Workbench.
Metadata Lock Browser
MySQL uses metadata locking to manage access to objects (tables, triggers, and so forth). Sometimes that can be puzzling, as your query may block waiting on an object being manipulated by another connection from maybe another user. The Client Connections list was updated to take advantage of the metadata lock information provided in the performance_schema starting in MySQL 5.7.3, to show information about what locks a connection is waiting for and what it holds. 
Updated Client Connection Browser
Speaking of the Client Connection browser, a neat feature added in MySQL 5.6 is the connection attribute dictionary, which includes handy things like the name of the clients that are connected (as long as the client supports it). You can access that by clicking the Show Details button in the Client Connection screen. 
Improved Visual Explain
In MySQL 5.7, the Optimizer Team has been doing great work in refactoring as well as innovation with the new Cost Model. The improved Visual Explain enables the DBA to now get deeper insights into Optimizer decision making, for improved performance tuning of queries. 
The UI was also improved to allow easier navigation in large query plans.
Streamlined Query Results Panel
The query results panel was updated to centralize the many features related to result sets into a single location. Result Grid, Form Editor, Field Types, Query Stats, Execution Plan (including the traditional and Visual Explain) and the new Spatial Viewer are all easily accessible from a single interface. 
Shared Snippets
SQL Snippets are useful to store queries and commands that are used often, but until now they could only be stored locally. In 6.2, you can now store snippets in the MySQL server you’re connected to and anyone anywhere who can access the .mysqlworkbench schema can also use these snippets.
MySQL Fabric Support
MySQL Fabric servers can now be added to the Workbench home screen. When clicked, these connections will dynamically query the Fabric server and individual connections for all the managed MySQL servers will be created. You can then connect to each instance as usual. 
Run SQL Script
It often happens that people try to load gigantic SQL script files into the Workbench SQL editor just to execute them. That will rarely work, as loading files for editing uses a lot of memory and Workbench does a lot of processing in the editor (syntax highlighting, syntax checking, code folding etc). To execute arbitrarily large scripts easily, you can now use the dialog at File -> Run SQL Script: 
The dialog lets you preview a part of the script, specify a default schema (in case it’s not already defined) and a default character set to use when importing it. The output window shows warnings, messages and a nice progress bar.
Include Model Scripts in Forward Engineering and Synchronization
Workbench modeling has always supported attaching SQL script files to the model, usually for documentation/organization purposes. You can now include these attachments to the output script when performing forward engineering or synchronization. 
Direct Schema Tree Action Buttons
The schema tree in the SQL Editor now has some very convenient buttons for accessing the most used functions for each object type:
- Table or Schema Inspector
- Object structure editor
- Table data browser/editor
- Call Stored Procedure or Function
Format Note Objects in Diagrams
Note objects in diagrams can now be resized and have its contents automatically rearranged. You can also change style attributes like font, background color and text color. 
Other improvements and bug fixes that make a difference
Resultset grid columns are now automatically resized to fit – and if you manually resize a column, the customized size is remembered, so next time you run that query again, the columns will be back to the size you left them.
Customize font for resultset grid – some people want to cram more text in the resultset grid, some people prefer bigger, easier to read text. Now you can pick what you like in Preferences.
Improved state saving for the SQL Editor – Opened, closed and reordered tabs are now properly saved and restored. The scroll position and cursor location is also remembered.
MySQL password is remembered for the session, even if not stored in the keychain, so you don’t need to re-enter it when a new connection is needed.
Keyboard shortcuts now work in the Scripting Shell.
Resume data copy in Migration Wizard. If a data copy fails during database migration (because of a timeout or network failure, for example), you can now click Resume to retry the data copy. Workbench will find the last row that was copied successfully and try to restart the copy from that row.
Platform Updates
MySQL Workbench 6.2 also finally adds native 64bit support for Windows. This should allow working with larger data sets and script files. Oracle Linux/RHEL 7 support was added. To improve quality and user experience, we will be providing 64-bit binaries for Linux. Linux users who want 32-bit binaries, can compile from source.
