2.0.0 (2026/07/03)

Add a --batch option as an alternative to STDIN.
Deprecate $MYSQL_UNIX_PORT environment variable in favor of $MYSQL_UNIX_SOCKET.
Support --username and $MYSQL_USER to set username.

Bug Fixes

Revert suppression of warnings when sqlglotrs is installed (fixed upstream).
Update cli_helpers to v2.12.0, fixing a preserve_whitespace bug with tabulate.

Internal

Harden codex-review workflow against script injection from untrusted PR metadata.
Handle Click exceptions by hand.
Connect toolbar tests to the test database.

1.65.1 (2026/03/18)

Bug Fixes

Require sqlglot 30.x.

1.65.0 (2026/03/16)

Features

Add prompt format string for literal backslash.
Add collation completions, and complete charsets in more positions.

Bug Fixes

Suppress warnings when sqlglotrs is installed.
Improve completions after operators, by recognizing more operators.

1.64.0 (2026/03/13)

Features

Add -r raw mode to system command.
Set timeouts, show exit codes, and improve formatting for system commands.
Add a dependencies section to --checkup.

Bug Fixes

Require sqlglot 29.x, suppressing a deprecation warning.

1.63.0 (2026/03/12)

Features

Make short toolbar message show after one prompt.

Internal

Migrate more repeated values to constants.py.
Support sqlglot 28 and 29.

1.62.0 (2026/03/07)

Features

Dynamic terminal titles based on prompt format strings.
Ability to turn off the toolbar.
Add completions for introducers on literals.
Load whole-line autosuggest candidates in a background thread for speed.

Bug Fixes

Improve query cancellation on control-c.
Improve refresh of some format strings in the toolbar.
Improve keyring storage, requiring re-entering most keyring passwords.
Improve sentinel value for --password without argument.

Internal

Require a more recent version of the wcwidth library.
Make safe_invalidate_display function safer.

1.61.0 (2026/03/07)

Features

Allow shorter timeout lengths after pressing Esc, for vi-mode.
Let tab and control-space behaviors be configurable.
Add short hostname prompt format string.

1.60.0 (2026/03/05)

Features

Prioritize common functions in the "value" position.
Improve value-position keywords.
Allow warning-count in status output to be styled.

Bug Fixes

Fix crash for completion edge case (#1668).
Update to a cli_helpers version with a tabulate bugfix.

1.59.0 (2026/03/03)

Features

Offer filename completions on more special commands, such as \edit.
Allow styling of status and timings text.
Set up customization of prompt/continuation colors in ~/.myclirc.
Allow customization of the toolbar with prompt format strings.
Add warnings-count prompt format strings: \w and \W.
Handle/document more attributes in the [colors] section of ~/.myclirc.
Enable customization of table border color/attributes in ~/.myclirc.
Complete much more precisely in the "value" position.

Bug Fixes

Make toolbar widths consistent on toggle actions.
Don't write ANSI prompt escapes to tee output.

Internal

Use prompt_toolkit's bell().
Refactor SQLResult dataclass.
Avoid depending on string matches into host info.
Add more URL constants.
Set $VISUAL whenever $EDITOR is set.
Fix tempfile leak in test suite.
Avoid refreshing the prompt unless needed.

1.58.0 (2026/02/28)

Features

Add \bug command.
Let the F1 key open a browser to mycli.net/docs and emit help text.
Add documentation index URL to inline help.
Rewrite bottom toolbar, showing more statuses, but staying compact.
Let help <keyword> list similar keywords when not found.
Optionally highlight fuzzy search previews.
Make \edit synonymous with the \e command.
Add environment variable section to --checkup.

Bug Fixes

Force a prompt_toolkit refresh after fzf history search to avoid display glitches.
Include status footer in paged output.
Ensure fullscreen in fuzzy history search.

Documentation

Add help <keyword> to TIPS.
Refine inline help descriptions.
Add $VISUAL environment variable hint to TIPS.

Internal

Better tests for null_string configuration option.
Better cleanup of resources in the test suite.
Simplify prettify/unprettify handlers.
Make prettify/unprettify logic more robust.

1.57.0 (2026/02/25)

Features

Add extra error output on connection failure for possible SSL mismatch (#1584).
Bind alternate terminal sequences for function keys F2 - F4.
Add llm help subcommand.
Rewrite help table.
Remove "info" counter from fzf history-search UI.

Bug Fixes

Let interactive changes to the prompt format respect dynamically-computed values.
Better handle arguments to system cd.
Fix missing keepalives in \e prompt loop.
Always strip trailing newlines with \e.
Fix \llm without arguments, and remove debug output.

Documentation

Startup tips: add right-arrow key binding.
Startup tips: add control-space and the min_completion_trigger setting.
Startup tips: add history-search bindings.
Prefer https protocol over http in documentation.

Internal

Remove outdated email address in pyproject.toml.
Set well-known URL values in pyproject.toml.

1.56.0 (2026/02/23)

Features

Let the --dsn argument accept literal DSNs as well as aliases.
Accept --character-set as an alias for --charset at the CLI.
Add SSL/TLS version to status output.
Accept socket as a DSN query parameter.
Accept new-style ssl_mode in DSN URI query parameters, to match CLI argument.
Fully deprecate the built-in SSH functionality.
Let --keepalive-ticks be set per-connection, as a CLI option or DSN parameter.
Accept character_set as a DSN query parameter.
Don't attempt SSL for local socket connections when in "auto" SSL mode.
Add prompt format string for SSL/TLS version of the connection.
Add prompt format strings for displaying uptime.
Add batch mode to startup tips.
Update startup tips with new options.

Bug Fixes

Make --ssl-capath argument a directory.
Allow users to use empty passwords without prompting or any configuration (#1584).
Check the existence of a socket more directly in status.
Allow multi-line SQL statements in batch mode on the standard input.
Fix extraneous prompt refresh on every keystroke.

1.55.0 (2026/02/20)

Features

--checkup now checks for external executables.

Bug Fixes

Improve completion suggestions within backticks.
Watch command now returns correct time when run as part of a multi-part query (#1565).
Don't diagnose free-entry sections such as [favorite_queries] in --checkup.
When accepting a filename completion, fill in leading ./ if given.

Internal

Bump cli_helpers to non-yanked version.

1.54.1 (2026/02/17)

Bug Fixes

Don't offer autocomplete suggestions when the cursor is within a string.
Catch getpwuid error on unknown socket owner.

Internal

Tune Codex reviews.
Refactor is_inside_quotes() detection.

1.54.0 (2026/02/16)

Features

Add many CLI flags to startup tips.
Accept all special commands without trailing semicolons in multi-line mode.
Add prompt format strings for socket connections.
Optionally defer auto-completions until a minimum number of characters is typed.
Make the completion interface more responsive using a background thread.
Option to suppress control-d exit behavior.
Better support Truecolor terminals.
Ability to send app-layer keepalive pings to the server.
Add WITH, EXPLAIN, and LEFT JOIN to favorite keyword suggestions.
Let the Escape key cancel completion popups.

Bug Fixes

Correct parameterization for completion queries.
Grammar nits in help display.

Internal

Prefer yield from over yielding in a loop.
Update ruff linter and CI.
Update LICENSE.txt for dates and GitHub detection.
Update key feature list in README.md, syncing with web.
Sync prompt format string commentary with web.
Add a GitHub Actions workflow to run Codex review on pull requests.
Remove vim-style exit sequence which had no effect.
Pin dependencies more tightly in pyproject.toml.
Exclude more documentation files from CI.

1.53.0 (2026/02/12)

Features

Add all ~/.myclirc entries/sections to startup tips.

Bug Fixes

Fix \dt+ table_name returning empty results.
Further bulletproof generating completions on stored procedures.

Internal

Add GitHub Issue templates.

1.52.0 (2026/02/11)

Features

Suggest tables/views that contain the given columns first when provided in a SELECT query.

Bug Fixes

Reduce duplicated --checkup output.
Handle errors generating completions on stored procedures.
Fix whitespace/inline comments breaking destructive UPDATE … WHERE statement detection.

Internal

Let CI ignore additional documentation files.
Upgrade cli_helpers library to v2.10.0.
Organize startup tips.

1.51.1 (2026/02/09)

Features

Options to limit size of LLM prompts; cache LLM prompt data.
Add startup usage tips.
Move main.ssl_mode config option to connection.default_ssl_mode.
Add "unsupported" and "deprecated" --checkup sections.

Bug Fixes

Correct mangled schema info sent in LLM prompts.
Give destructive warning on multi-table UPDATEs.

1.50.0 (2026/02/07)

Features

Deprecate reading configuration values from my.cnf files.
Add --checkup mode to show unconfigured new features.
Add binary_display configuration option.

Bug Fixes

Link to --ssl/--no-ssl GitHub issue in deprecation warning.
Don't emit keyring-updated message unless needed.
Include port and socket in keyring identifier.

1.49.0 (2026/02/02)

Features

"Eager" completions for the source command, limited to *.sql files.
Suggest column names from all tables in the current database after SELECT (#212).
Put fuzzy completions more often to the bottom of the suggestion list.
Store and retrieve passwords using the system keyring.

Bug Fixes

Refactor completions for special commands, with minor casing fixes.
Raise --password-file higher in the precedence of password specification.
Fix regression: show username in password prompt.

Internal

Remove align_decimals preprocessor, which had no effect.
Fix TLS deprecation warning in test suite.
Convert importlib read_text and open_text uses to newer files() syntax.
Update Pull Request template.

1.48.0 (2026/01/27)

Features

Right-align numeric columns, and make the behavior configurable.
Add completions for stored procedures.
Escape database completions.
Offer completions on CREATE TABLE ... LIKE.
Use 0x-style hex literals for binaries in SQL output formats.

Bug Fixes

Better respect case when keyword_casing is auto.
Fix error when selecting from an empty table.
Let favorite queries contain special commands.
Render binary values more consistently as hex literals.
Offer format completions on special command \Tr/redirectformat.

1.47.0 (2026/01/24)

Features

Add a --checkpoint= argument to log successful queries in batch mode.
Add --throttle option for batch mode.

Bug Fixes

Fix timediff output when the result is a negative value (#1113).
Don't offer completions for numeric text.

1.46.0 (2026/01/22)

Features

Add --unbuffered mode which fetches rows as needed, to save memory.
Default to standards-compliant utf8mb4 character set.
Stream input from STDIN to consume less memory, adding --noninteractive and --format= CLI arguments.
Remove suggested quoting on completions for identifiers with uppercase.
Allow table names to be completed with leading schema names.
Soft deprecate the built-in SSH features.
Add true fuzzy-match completions with rapidfuzz.

Bug Fixes

Fix CamelCase fuzzy matching.
Place special commands first in the list of completion candidates, and remove duplicates.

1.45.0 (2026/01/20)

Features

Make password options also function as flags. Reworked password logic to prompt user as early as possible (#341).
More complete and up-to-date set of MySQL reserved words for completions.
Place exact-leading completions first.
Allow history file location to be configured.
Make destructive-warning keywords configurable.
Smarter fuzzy completion matches.

Bug Fixes

Respect --logfile when using --execute or standard input at the shell CLI.
Gracefully catch Paramiko parsing errors on --list-ssh-config.
Downgrade to Paramiko 3.5.1 to avoid crashing on DSA SSH keys.
Offer schema name completions in GRANT ... ON forms.

1.44.2 (2026/01/13)

Bug Fixes

Update watch query output to display the correct execution time on all iterations (#763).
Use correct database (if applicable) when reconnecting after a connection loss (#1437).

Internal

Create new data class to handle SQL/command results to make further code improvements easier.

1.44.1 (2026/01/10)

Bug Fixes

Let sqlparse accept arbitrarily-large queries.

1.44.0 (2026/01/08)

Features

Add enum value completions for WHERE/HAVING clauses. (#790)
Add show_favorite_query config option to control query printing when running favorite queries. (#1118)

1.43.1 (2026/01/03)

Bug Fixes

Prompt for password within SSL-auto retry flow.

1.43.0 (2026/01/02)

Features

Update query processing functions to allow automatic show_warnings to work for more code paths like DDL.
Add new ssl_mode config / --ssl-mode CLI option to control SSL connection behavior. This setting will supercede the existing --ssl/--no-ssl CLI options, which are deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
Rework reconnect logic to actually reconnect or create a new connection instead of simply changing the database (#746).
Configurable string for missing values (NULLs) in outputs.

Bug Fixes

Update the prompt display logic to handle an edge case where a socket is used without a host being parsed from any other method (#707).

Internal

Refine documentation for Windows.
Target Python 3.10 for linting.
Use fully-qualified pymysql exception classes.

1.42.0 (2025/12/20)

Features

Add support for the automatic displaying of warnings after a SQL statement is executed. May be set with the commands \W and \w, in the config file with show_warnings, or with --show-warnings/--no-show-warnings on the command line.

Internal

Improve robustness for flaky tests when publishing.
Improve type annotations for latest mypy/type stubs.
Set mypy version more strictly.

1.41.2 (2025/11/24)

Bug Fixes

Close connection to server properly to avoid "Aborted connection" warnings in server logs.

Internal

Add ruff to developement dependencies.
Update contributing guidelines to match GitHub pull request checklist.

1.41.1 (2025/11/15)

Bug Fixes

Upgrade click to v8.3.1, resolving a longstanding pager bug.

Internal

Include LLM dependencies in tox configuration.

1.41.0 (2025/11/01)

Features

Make LLM dependencies an optional extra.

Bug Fixes

Let LLM commands respect show-timing configuration.

Internal

Add mypy to Pull Request template.
Enable flake8-bugbear lint rules.
Fix flaky editor-command tests in CI.
Require release format of changelog.md when making a release.
Improve type annotations on LLM driver.

1.40.0 (2025/10/14)

Features

Support reconnecting to mysql server when the server restarts.

Internal

Test on Python 3.14.
Switch from pyaes to pycryptodomex as it seems to be more actively maintained.

1.39.1 (2025/10/06)

Bug Fixes

Don't require --ssl argument when other SSL arguments are given.

1.39.0 (2025/09/30)

Features

Support only Python 3.10+.

Bug Fixes

Fixes use of incorrect ssl config after retrying connection with prompted password.
Fix ssl_context always created.

Internal

Typing fix for pymysql.connect().

1.38.4 (2025/09/06)

Bug Fixes

Limit Alt-R bindings to Emacs mode.
Fix timing being printed twice.

Internal

Only read "my" configuration files once, rather than once per call to read_my_cnf_files.

1.38.3 (2025/08/21)

Bug Fixes

Fix the infinite looping when \llm is called without args.

1.38.2 (2025/08/19)

Bug Fixes

Fix failure to save Favorite Queries.

1.38.1 (2025/08/19)

Bug Fixes

Partially fix Favorite Query completion crash.

Internal

Improve CI workflow naming.

1.38.0 (2025/08/16)

Features

Add LLM support.

Bug Fixes

Improve missing ssh-extras message.
Fix repeated control-r in traditional reverse isearch.
Fix spelling of ssl-verify-server-cert option.
Improve handling of ssl-verify-server-cert False values.
Guard against missing contributors file on startup.
Friendlier errors on password-file failures.
Better handle empty-string passwords.
Permit empty-string passwords at the interactive prompt.

Internal

Improve pull request template lint commands.
Complete typehinting the non-test codebase.
Modernization: conversion to f-strings.
Modernization: remove more Python 2 compatibility logic.

1.37.1 (2025/07/28)

Internal

Align LICENSE with SPDX format.
Fix deprecated license specification format in pyproject.toml.

1.37.0 (2025/07/28)

Features

Show username in password prompt.
Add mysql and mysql_unicode table formats.

Bug Fixes

Help Windows installations find a working default pager.

Internal

Support only Python 3.9+ in pyproject.toml.
Add linting suggestion to pull request template.
Make CI names and properties more consistent.
Enable typechecking for most of the non-test codebase.
CI: turn off fail-fast matrix strategy.
Remove unused Python 2 compatibility code.
Also run CI tests without installing SSH extra dependencies.
Update cli_helpers dependency, and list of table formats.

1.36.0 (2025/07/19)

Features

Make control-r reverse search style configurable.
Make fzf search key bindings more compatible with traditional isearch.

Bug Fixes

Better reset after pipe command failures.

Internal

Add limited typechecking to CI.

1.35.0 (2025/07/18)

Features

Support chained pipe operators such as select first_name from users $| grep '^J' $| head -10.
Support trailing file redirects after pipe operators, such as select 10 $| tail -1 $> ten.txt.

1.34.4 (2025/07/15)

Bug Fixes

Fix old-style \pipe_once.

1.34.3 (2025/07/14)

Bug Fixes

Use only communicate() to communicate with subprocess.

1.34.2 (2025/07/12)

Bug Fixes

Use plain print() to communicate with subprocess.

1.34.1 (2025/07/12)

Internal

Bump cli_helpers dependency for corrected output formats.

1.34.0 (2025/07/11)

Features

Post-save command hook for redirected output.

Internal

Documentation cleanup.
Bump cli_helpers dependency for more output formats.

1.33.0 (2025/07/07)

Features

Keybindings to insert current date/datetime.
Improve feedback when running external commands.
Independent format for redirected output.
Trailing shell-style redirect syntax.

Internal

Remove requirements-dev.txt in favor of uv/pyproject.toml.

1.32.0 (2025/07/04)

Features

Support SSL query parameters on DSNs.
More information and care on KeyboardInterrupt.

Internal

Work on passing ruff check linting.
Relax expectation for unreliable test.
Bump sqlglot version to v26 and add rs extras.

1.31.2 (2025/05/01)

Bug Fixes

Let table-name extraction work on multi-statement inputs.

Internal

Work on passing ruff check linting.
Remove backward-compatibility hacks.
Pin more GitHub Actions and add Dependabot support.
Enable xpassing test.

1.31.1 (2025/04/25)

Internal

skip style checks on Publish action

1.31.0 (NEVER RELEASED)

Features

Added explicit error handle to get_password_from_file with EAFP.
Use the "history" scheme for fzf searches.
Deduplicate history in fzf searches.
Add a preview window to fzf history searches.

Internal

New Project Lead: Roland Walker
Update sqlparse to <=0.6.0
Typing/lint fixes.

1.30.0 (2025/04/19)

Features

DSN specific init-command in myclirc. Fixes (#1195)
Add \\g to force the horizontal output.

1.29.2 (2024/12/11)

Internal

Exclude tests from the python package.

1.29.1 (2024/12/11)

Internal

Fix the GH actions to publish a new version.

1.29.0 (NEVER RELEASED)

Bug Fixes

fix SSL through SSH jump host by using a true python socket for a tunnel
Fix mycli crash when connecting to Vitess

Internal

Modernize to use PEP-621. Use uv instead of pip in GH actions.
Remove Python 3.8 and add Python 3.13 in test matrix.

1.28.0 (2024/11/10)

Features

Added fzf history search functionality. The feature can switch between the old implementation and the new one based on the presence of the fzf binary.

Bug Fixes

Fixes Database connection failed: error('unpack requires a buffer of 4 bytes')
Only show keyword completions after *
Enable fuzzy matching for keywords

1.27.2 (2024/04/03)

Bug Fixes

Don't use default prompt when one is not supplied to the --prompt option.

1.27.1 (2024/03/28)

Bug Fixes

Don't install tests.
Do not ignore the socket passed with the -S option, even when no port is passed
Fix unexpected exception when using dsn without username & password (Thanks: Will Wang)
Let the --prompt option act normally with its predefined default value

Internal

paramiko is newer than 2.11.0 now, remove version pinning cryptography.
Drop support for Python 3.7

1.27.0 (2023/08/11)

Features

Detect TiDB instance, show in the prompt, and use additional keywords.
Fix the completion order to show more commonly-used keywords at the top.

Bug Fixes

Better handle empty statements in un/prettify
Remove vi-mode bindings for prettify/unprettify.
Honor \G when executing from commandline with -e.
Correctly report the version of TiDB.
Revised botton spelling mistakes with bottom in mycli/clitoolbar.py

1.26.1 (2022/09/01)

Bug Fixes

Require Python 3.7 in setup.py

1.26.0 (2022/09/01)

Features

Add --ssl flag to enable ssl/tls.
Add pager option to ~/.myclirc, for instance pager = 'pspg --csv' (Thanks: BuonOmo)
Add prettify/unprettify keybindings to format the current statement using sqlglot.

Features

Add --tls-version option to control the tls version used.

Internal

Pin cryptography to suppress paramiko warning, helping CI complete and presumably affecting some users.
Upgrade some dev requirements
Change tests to always use databases prefixed with 'mycli_' for better security

Bug Fixes

Support for some MySQL compatible databases, which may not implement connection_id().
Fix the status command to work with missing 'Flush_commands' (mariadb)
Ignore the user of the system [myslqd] config.

1.25.0 (2022/04/02)

Features

Add beep_after_seconds option to ~/.myclirc, to ring the terminal bell after long queries.

1.24.4 (2022/03/30)

Internal

Upgrade Ubuntu VM for runners as Github has deprecated it

Bug Fixes

Change in main.py - Replace the click.get_terminal_size() with shutil.get_terminal_size()

1.24.3 (2022/01/20)

Bug Fixes

Upgrade cli_helpers to workaround Pygments regression.

1.24.2 (2022/01/11)

Bug Fixes

Fix autocompletion for more than one JOIN
Fix the status command when connected to TiDB or other servers that don't implement 'Threads_connected'
Pin pygments version to avoid a breaking change

1.24.1

Bug Fixes

Restore dependency on cryptography for the interactive password prompt

Internal

Deprecate Python mock

1.24.0

Bug Fixes

Allow FileNotFound exception for SSH config files.
Fix startup error on MySQL < 5.0.22
Check error code rather than message for Access Denied error
Fix login with ~/.my.cnf files

Features

Add -g shortcut to option --login-path.
Alt-Enter dispatches the command in multi-line mode.
Allow to pass a file or FIFO path with --password-file when password is not specified or is failing (as suggested in this best-practice https://www.netmeister.org/blog/passing-passwords.html)

Internal

Remove unused function is_open_quote()
Use importlib, instead of file links, to locate resources
Test various host-port combinations in command line arguments
Switched from Cryptography to pyaes for decrypting mylogin.cnf

1.23.2

Bug Fixes

Ensure --port is always an int.

1.23.1

Bug Fixes

Allow --host without --port to make a TCP connection.

1.23.0

Bug Fixes

Fix config file include logic

Features

Add an option --init-command to execute SQL after connecting (Thanks: [KITAGAWA Yasutaka]).
Use InputMode.REPLACE_SINGLE
Add support for ANSI escape sequences for coloring the prompt.
Allow customization of Pygments SQL syntax-highlighting styles.
Add a \clip special command to copy queries to the system clipboard.
Add a special command \pipe_once to pipe output to a subprocess.
Add an option --charset to set the default charset when connect database.

Bug Fixes

Fixed compatibility with sqlparse 0.4 (Thanks: mtorromeo).
Fixed iPython magic (Thanks: mwcm).
Send "Connecting to socket" message to the standard error.
Respect empty string for prompt_continuation via prompt_continuation = '' in .myclirc
Fix \once -o to overwrite output whole, instead of line-by-line.
Dispatch lines ending with \e or \clip on return, even in multiline mode.
Restore working local --socket=<UDS> (Thanks: xeron).
Allow backtick quoting around the database argument to the use command.
Avoid opening /dev/tty when --no-warn is given.
Fixed some typo errors in README.md.

1.22.2

Bug Fixes

Make the pwd module optional.

1.22.1

Bug Fixes

Fix the breaking change introduced in PyMySQL 0.10.0. (Thanks: [Amjith]).

Features

Add an option --ssh-config-host to read ssh configuration from OpenSSH configuration file.
Add an option --list-ssh-config to list ssh configurations.
Add an option --ssh-config-path to choose ssh configuration path.

Bug Fixes

Fix specifying empty password with --password='' when config file has a password set (Thanks: Zach DeCook).

1.21.1

Bug Fixes

Fix broken auto-completion for favorite queries (Thanks: [Amjith]).
Fix undefined variable exception when running with --no-warn (Thanks: Georgy Frolov)
Support setting color for null value (Thanks: laixintao)

1.21.0

Features

Added DSN alias name as a format specifier to the prompt (Thanks: Georgy Frolov).
Mark update without where-clause as destructive query (Thanks: [Klaus Wünschel]).
Added DELIMITER command (Thanks: Georgy Frolov)
Added clearer error message when failing to connect to the default socket.
Extend main.is_dropping_database check with create after delete statement.
Search ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/mycli/myclirc after ${HOME}/.myclirc and before /etc/myclirc (Thanks: [Takeshi D. Itoh])

Bug Fixes

Allow \o command more than once per session (Thanks: Georgy Frolov)
Fixed crash when the query dropping the current database starts with a comment (Thanks: Georgy Frolov)

Internal

deprecate python versions 2.7, 3.4, 3.5; support python 3.8

1.20.1

Bug Fixes

Fix an error when using login paths with an explicit database name (Thanks: Thomas Roten).

1.20.0

Features

Auto find alias dsn when :// not in database (Thanks: [QiaoHou Peng]).
Mention URL encoding as escaping technique for special characters in connection DSN (Thanks: [Aljosha Papsch]).
Pressing Alt-Enter will introduce a line break. This is a way to break up the query into multiple lines without switching to multi-line mode. (Thanks: Amjith Ramanujam).
Use a generator to stream the output to the pager (Thanks: Dick Marinus).

Bug Fixes

Fix the missing completion for special commands (Thanks: Amjith Ramanujam).
Fix favorites queries being loaded/stored only from/in default config file and not --myclirc (Thanks: Matheus Rosa)
Fix automatic vertical output with native syntax style (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Update cli_helpers version, this will remove quotes from batch output like the official client (Thanks: Dick Marinus)
Update setup.py to no longer require sqlparse to be less than 0.3.0 as that just came out and there are no notable changes. ([VVelox])
workaround for ConfigObj parsing strings containing "," as lists (Thanks: [Mike Palandra])

Internal

fix unhashable FormattedText from prompt toolkit in unit tests (Thanks: Dick Marinus).

1.19.0

Internal

Add Python 3.7 trove classifier (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Fix pytest in Fedora mock (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Require prompt_toolkit>=2.0.6 (Thanks: Dick Marinus).

Features

Add Token.Prompt/Continuation (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Don't reconnect when switching databases using use (Thanks: [Angelo Lupo]).
Handle MemoryErrors while trying to pipe in large files and exit gracefully with an error (Thanks: Amjith Ramanujam)

Bug Fixes

Enable Ctrl-Z to suspend the app (Thanks: Amjith Ramanujam).

1.18.2

Bug Fixes

Fixes database reconnecting feature (Thanks: [Yang Zou]).

Internal

Update Twine version to 1.12.1 (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Fix warnings for running tests on Python 3.7 (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Clean up and add behave logging (Thanks: Dick Marinus).

1.18.1

Features

Add Keywords: TINYINT, SMALLINT, MEDIUMINT, INT, BIGINT (Thanks: [QiaoHou Peng]).

Internal

Update prompt toolkit (Thanks: Jonathan Slenders, Irina Truong, Dick Marinus).

1.18.0

Features

Display server version in welcome message (Thanks: Irina Truong).
Set program_name connection attribute (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Use return to terminate a generator for better Python 3.7 support (Thanks: [Zhongyang Guan]).
Add SAVEPOINT to SQLCompleter (Thanks: [Huachao Mao]).
Connect using a SSH transport (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Add FROM_UNIXTIME and UNIX_TIMESTAMP to SQLCompleter (Thanks: [QiaoHou Peng])
Search ${PWD}/.myclirc, then ${HOME}/.myclirc, lastly /etc/myclirc (Thanks: [QiaoHao Peng])

Bug Fixes

When DSN is used, allow overrides from mycli arguments (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
A DSN without password should be allowed (Thanks: Dick Marinus)

Bug Fixes

Convert sql_format to unicode strings for py27 compatibility (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Fixes mycli compatibility with pbr (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Don't align decimals for sql_format (Thanks: Dick Marinus).

Internal

Use fileinput (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Enable tests for Python 3.7 (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Remove *.swp from gitignore (Thanks: Dick Marinus).

1.17.0

Features

Add CONCAT to SQLCompleter and remove unused code (Thanks: [caitinggui])
Do not quit when aborting a confirmation prompt (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Add option list-dsn (Thanks: Frederic Aoustin).
Add verbose option for list-dsn, add tests and clean up code (Thanks: Dick Marinus).

Bug Fixes

Add enable_pager to the config file (Thanks: Frederic Aoustin).
Mark test_sql_output as a dbtest (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Don't crash if the log/history file directories don't exist (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Unquote dsn username and password (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Output Password: prompt to stderr (Thanks: [ushuz]).
Mark alter as a destructive query (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Quote CSV fields (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Fix thanks_picker (Thanks: Dick Marinus).

Internal

Refactor Destructive Warning behave tests (Thanks: Dick Marinus).

1.16.0

Features

Add DSN aliases to the config file (Thanks: Frederic Aoustin).

Bug Fixes

Do not try to connect to a unix socket on Windows (Thanks: Thomas Roten).

1.15.0

Features

Add sql-update/insert output format. (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Also complete aliases in WHERE. (Thanks: Dick Marinus).

1.14.0

Features

Add watch [seconds] query command to repeat a query every [seconds] seconds (by default 5). (Thanks: David Caro)
Default to unix socket connection if host and port are unspecified. This simplifies authentication on some systems and matches mysql behaviour.
Add support for positional parameters to favorite queries. (Thanks: Scrappy Soft)

Bug Fixes

Fix source command for script in current working directory. (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Fix issue where the tee command did not work on Python 2.7 (Thanks: Thomas Roten).

Internal Changes

Drop support for Python 3.3 (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Make tests more compatible between different build environments. (Thanks: [David Caro])
Merge _on_completions_refreshed and _swap_completer_objects functions (Thanks: Dick Marinus).

1.13.1

Bug Fixes

Fix keyword completion suggestion for SHOW (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Prevent mycli from crashing when failing to read login path file (Thanks: Thomas Roten).

Internal Changes

Make tests ignore user config files (Thanks: Thomas Roten).

1.13.0

Features

Add file name completion for source command (issue #500). (Thanks: Irina Truong).

Bug Fixes

Fix UnicodeEncodeError when editing sql command in external editor (Thanks: Klaus Wünschel).
Fix MySQL4 version comment retrieval (Thanks: François Pietka)
Fix error that occurred when outputting JSON and NULL data (Thanks: Thomas Roten).

1.12.1

Bug Fixes

Prevent missing MySQL help database from causing errors in completions (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Fix mycli from crashing with small terminal windows under Python 2 (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Prevent an error from displaying when you drop the current database (Thanks: Thomas Roten).

Internal Changes

Use less memory when formatting results for display (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Preliminary work for a future change in outputting results that uses less memory (Thanks: Dick Marinus).

1.12.0

Features

Add fish-style auto-suggestion from history. (Thanks: Amjith Ramanujam)

1.11.0

Features

Handle reserved space for completion menu better in small windows. (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Display current vi mode in toolbar. (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Opening an external editor will edit the last-run query. (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Output once special command. (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Add special command to show create table statement. (Thanks: [Ryan Smith])
Display all result sets returned by stored procedures (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Add current time to prompt options (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Output status text in a more intuitive way (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Add colored/styled headers and odd/even rows (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Keyword completion casing (upper/lower/auto) (Thanks: Irina Truong).

Bug Fixes

Fixed incorrect timekeeping when running queries from a file. (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Do not display time and empty line for blank queries (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Fixed issue where quit command would sometimes not work (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Remove shebang from main.py (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Only use pager if output doesn't fit. (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Support tilde user directory for output file names (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Auto vertical output is a little bit better at its calculations (Thanks: Thomas Roten).

Internal Changes

Rename tests/ to test/. (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Move AUTHORS and SPONSORS to mycli directory. (Thanks: [Terje Røsten] []).
Switch from pycryptodome to cryptography (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Add pager wrapper for behave tests (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Behave test source command (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Test using behave the tee command (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Behave fix clean up. (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Remove output formatter code in favor of CLI Helpers dependency (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Better handle common before/after scenarios in behave. (Thanks: Dick Marinus)
Added a regression test for sqlparse >= 0.2.3 (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Reverted removal of temporary hack for sqlparse (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Add setup.py commands to simplify development tasks (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Add behave tests to tox (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Add missing @dbtest to tests (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Standardizes punctuation/grammar for help strings (Thanks: Thomas Roten).

1.10.0

Features

Add ability to specify alternative myclirc file. (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Add new display formats for pretty printing query results. (Thanks: Amjith Ramanujam, Dick Marinus, Thomas Roten).
Add logic to shorten the default prompt if it becomes too long once generated. (Thanks: [John Sterling]).

Bug Fixes

Fix external editor bug (issue #377). (Thanks: Irina Truong).
Fixed bug so that favorite queries can include unicode characters. (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Fix requirements and remove old compatibility code (Thanks: Dick Marinus)
Fix bug where mycli would not start due to the thanks/credit intro text. (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Use pymysql default conversions (issue #375). (Thanks: Dick Marinus).

Internal Changes

Upload mycli distributions in a safer manner (using twine). (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Test mycli using pexpect/python-behave (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Run pep8 checks in travis (Thanks: Irina Truong).
Remove temporary hack for sqlparse (Thanks: Dick Marinus).

1.9.0

Features

Add tee/notee commands for outputing results to a file. (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Add date, port, and whitespace options to prompt configuration. (Thanks: Matheus Rosa).
Allow user to specify LESS pager flags. (Thanks: [John Sterling]).
Add support for auto-reconnect. (Thanks: [Jialong Liu]).
Add CSV batch output. (Thanks: Matheus Rosa).
Add auto_vertical_output config to myclirc. (Thanks: Matheus Rosa).
Improve Fedora install instructions. (Thanks: Dick Marinus).

Bug Fixes

Fix crashes occuring from commands starting with #. (Thanks: [Zhidong]).
Fix broken PyMySQL link in README. (Thanks: [Daniël van Eeden]).
Add various missing keywords for highlighting and autocompletion. (Thanks: [zer09]).
Add the missing REGEXP keyword for highlighting and autocompletion. (Thanks: [cxbig]).
Fix duplicate username entries in completion list. (Thanks: [John Sterling]).
Remove extra spaces in TSV table format output. (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Kill running query when interrupted via Ctrl-C. (Thanks: [chainkite]).
Read the smart_completion config from myclirc. (Thanks: Thomas Roten).

Internal Changes

Improve handling of test database credentials. (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Add Python 3.6 to test environments and PyPI metadata. (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Drop Python 2.6 support. (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Swap pycrypto dependency for pycryptodome. (Thanks: [Michał Górny]).
Bump sqlparse version so pgcli and mycli can be installed together. (Thanks: [darikg]).

1.8.1

Bug Fixes

Remove duplicate listing of DISTINCT keyword. (Thanks: Amjith Ramanujam).
Add an try/except for AS keyword crash. (Thanks: Amjith Ramanujam).
Support python-sqlparse 0.2. (Thanks: Dick Marinus).
Fallback to the raw object for invalid time values. (Thanks: Amjith Ramanujam).
Reset the show items when completion is refreshed. (Thanks: Amjith Ramanujam).

Internal Changes

Make the dependency of sqlparse slightly more liberal. (Thanks: Amjith Ramanujam).

1.8.0

Features

Add support for --execute/-e commandline arg. (Thanks: Matheus Rosa).
Add less_chatty config option to skip the intro messages. (Thanks: Scrappy Soft).
Support MYCLI_HISTFILE environment variable to specify where to write the history file. (Thanks: Scrappy Soft).
Add prompt_continuation config option to allow configuring the continuation prompt for multi-line queries. (Thanks: Scrappy Soft).
Display login-path instead of host in prompt. (Thanks: Irina Truong).

Bug Fixes

Pin sqlparse to version 0.1.19 since the new version is breaking completion. (Thanks: Amjith Ramanujam).
Remove unsupported keywords. (Thanks: Matheus Rosa).
Fix completion suggestion inside functions with operands. (Thanks: Irina Truong).

1.7.0

Features

Add stdin batch mode. (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Add warn/no-warn command-line options. (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Upgrade sqlparse dependency to 0.1.19. (Thanks: Amjith Ramanujam).
Update features list in README.md. (Thanks: Matheus Rosa).
Remove extra \n in features list in README.md. (Thanks: Matheus Rosa).

Bug Fixes

Enable history search via . (Thanks: Amjith Ramanujam).

Internal Changes

Upgrade prompt_toolkit to 1.0.0. (Thanks: Jonathan Slenders)

1.6.0

Features

Change continuation prompt for multi-line mode to match default mysql.
Add status command to match mysql's status command. (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Add SSL support for mycli. (Thanks: Artem Bezsmertnyi).
Add auto-completion and highlight support for OFFSET keyword. (Thanks: Matheus Rosa).
Add support for MYSQL_TEST_LOGIN_FILE env variable to specify alternate login file. (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Add support for --auto-vertical-output to automatically switch to vertical output if the output doesn't fit in the table format.
Add support for system-wide config. Now /etc/myclirc will be honored. (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Add support for nopager and \n to turn off the pager. (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Add support for --local-infile command-line option. (Thanks: Thomas Roten).

Bug Fixes

Remove -S from less option which was clobbering the scroll back in history. (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Make system command work with Python 3. (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Support \G terminator for \f queries. (Thanks: Terseus).

Internal Changes

Upgrade prompt_toolkit to 0.60.
Add Python 3.5 to test environments. (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Remove license meta-data. (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Skip binary tests if PyMySQL version does not support it. (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Refactor pager handling. (Thanks: Thomas Roten)
Capture warnings to log file. (Thanks: Mikhail Borisov).
Make syntax_style a tiny bit more intuitive. (Thanks: Phil Cohen).

1.5.2

Bug Fixes

Protect against port number being None when no port is specified in command line.

1.5.1

Bug Fixes

Cast the value of port read from my.cnf to int.

1.5.0

Features

Make a config option to enable audit_log. (Thanks: Matheus Rosa).
Add support for reading .mylogin.cnf to get user credentials. (Thanks: Thomas Roten). This feature is only available when pycrypto package is installed.
Register the special command prompt with the \R as alias. (Thanks: Matheus Rosa). Users can now change the mysql prompt at runtime using prompt command. eg:
```
mycli> prompt \u@\h>
Changed prompt format to \u@\h>
Time: 0.001s
amjith@localhost>
```
Perform completion refresh in a background thread. Now mycli can handle databases with thousands of tables without blocking.
Add support for system command. (Thanks: Matheus Rosa). Users can now run a system command from within mycli as follows:
```
amjith@localhost:(none)>system cat tmp.sql
select 1;
select * from django_migrations;
```
Caught and hexed binary fields in MySQL. (Thanks: Daniel West). Geometric fields stored in a database will be displayed as hexed strings.
Treat enter key as tab when the suggestion menu is open. (Thanks: Matheus Rosa)
Add "delete" and "truncate" as destructive commands. (Thanks: Martijn Engler).
Change \dt syntax to add an optional table name. (Thanks: Shoma Suzuki). \dt [tablename] will describe the columns in a table.
Add TRANSACTION related keywords.
Treat DESC and EXPLAIN as DESCRIBE. (Thanks: spacewander).

Bug Fixes

Fix the removal of whitespace from table output.
Add ability to make suggestions for compound join clauses. (Thanks: Matheus Rosa).
Fix the incorrect reporting of command time.
Add type validation for port argument. (Thanks Matheus Rosa)

Internal Changes

Make pycrypto optional and only install it in *nix systems. (Thanks: Irina Truong).
Add badge for PyPI version to README. (Thanks: Shoma Suzuki).
Updated release script with a --dry-run and --confirm-steps option. (Thanks: Irina Truong).
Adds support for PyMySQL 0.6.2 and above. This is useful for debian package builders. (Thanks: Thomas Roten).
Disable click warning.

1.4.0

Features

Add source command. This allows running sql statement from a file.

eg:
```
mycli> source filename.sql
```
Added a config option to make the warning before destructive commands optional. (Thanks: Daniel West)

In the config file ~/.myclirc set destructive_warning = False which will disable the warning before running DROP commands.
Add completion support for CHANGE TO and other master/slave commands. This is still preliminary and it will be enhanced in the future.
Add custom styles to color the menus and toolbars.
Upgrade prompt_toolkit to 0.46. (Thanks: Jonathan Slenders)

Multi-line queries are automatically indented.

Bug Fixes

Fix keyword completion after the WHERE clause.
Add \g and \G as valid query terminators. Previously in multi-line mode ending a query with a \G wouldn't run the query. This is now fixed.

1.3.0

Features

Add a new special command (\T) to change the table format on the fly. (Thanks: Jonathan Bruno) eg:
```
mycli> \T tsv
```
Add --defaults-group-suffix to the command line. This lets the user specify a group to use in the my.cnf files. (Thanks: Irina Truong)

In the my.cnf file a user can specify credentials for different databases and invoke mycli with the group name to use the appropriate credentials. eg:
```
# my.cnf
[client]
user   = 'root'
socket = '/tmp/mysql.sock'
pager = 'less -RXSF'
database = 'account'

[clientamjith]
user     = 'amjith'
database  = 'user_management'

$ mycli --defaults-group-suffix=amjith   # uses the [clientamjith] section in my.cnf
```
Add --defaults-file option to the command line. This allows specifying a my.cnf to use at launch. This also makes it play nice with mysql sandbox.
Make -p and --password take the password in commandline. This makes mycli a drop in replacement for mysql.

1.2.0

Features

Add support for wider completion menus in the config file.

Add wider_completion_menu = True in the config file (~/.myclirc) to enable this feature.

Bug Fixes

Prevent Ctrl-C from quitting mycli while the pager is active.
Refresh auto-completions after the database is changed via a CONNECT command.

Internal Changes

Upgrade prompt_toolkit dependency version to 0.45.
Added Travis CI to run the tests automatically.

1.1.1

Bug Fixes

Change dictonary comprehension used in mycnf reader to list comprehension to make it compatible with Python 2.6.

1.1.0

Features

Fuzzy completion is now case-insensitive. (Thanks: bjarnagin)
Added new-line (\n) to the list of special characters to use in prompt. (Thanks: brewneaux)
Honor the pager setting in my.cnf files. (Thanks: Irina Truong)

Bug Fixes

Fix a crashing bug in completion engine for cross joins.
Make <null> value consistent between tabular and vertical output.

Internal Changes

Changed pymysql version to be greater than 0.6.6.
Upgrade prompt_toolkit version to 0.42. (Thanks: Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
Removed the explicit dependency on six.

2015/06/10

Features

Customizable prompt. (Thanks Steve Robbins)
Make \G formatting to behave more like mysql.

Bug Fixes

Formatting issue in \G for really long column values.

2015/06/07

Features

Upgrade prompt_toolkit to 0.38. This improves the performance of pasting long queries.
Add support for reading my.cnf files.
Add editor command \e.
Replace ConfigParser with ConfigObj.
Add \dt to show all tables.
Add fuzzy completion for table names and column names.
Automatically reconnect when connection is lost to the database.

Bug Fixes

Fix a bug with reconnect failure.
Fix the issue with use command not changing the prompt.
Fix the issue where \\r shortcut was not recognized.

2015/05/24

Features

Add support for connecting via socket.
Add completion for SQL functions.
Add completion support for SHOW statements.
Made the timing of sql statements human friendly.
Automatically prompt for a password if needed.

Bug Fixes

Fixed the installation issues with PyMySQL dependency on case-sensitive file systems.