v0.15.0: Bring Your Connections With You — Imports, Nested Groups, and Encrypted Exports

TabularisDB released v0.15.0, adding connection imports from five other SQL clients, nested folder groups, bulk actions, and encrypted exports. The update also introduces ENUM dropdowns for MySQL and PostgreSQL, fixes an EXPLAIN ANALYZE security loophole, and eliminates phantom console windows on Windows.

v0.15.0: Bring Your Connections With You — Imports, Nested Groups, and Encrypted Exports v0.15.0 follows v0.14.0 /blog/v0140-stored-routines-connection-windows-destructive-query-guard and has one clear theme: the Connections page stops being a flat list you retype things into and becomes something you can actually manage . You can now import your saved connections from five other SQL clients, file them into folders inside folders, select twenty of them and act on all twenty, and hand a teammate an export that is actually encrypted instead of a JSON full of plaintext passwords. Around that core: ENUM columns become dropdowns on both MySQL and PostgreSQL, the MCP safety layer closes an EXPLAIN ANALYZE loophole, and Windows users stop seeing phantom console windows. Fourteen external contributors land in this tag. Import Connections From the Client You're Leaving The biggest friction in trying a new database client is retyping every connection you've accumulated over the years. PR 393 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/393 removes it: a new Import dropup next to Add Connection reads saved connections from DBeaver , Beekeeper Studio , TablePlus , DataGrip and Sequel Ace — plus Tabularis's own JSON exports. Each source is parsed into a neutral envelope, and credentials are decrypted or read from the source client's keychain when you ask for them. Nothing is merged blindly: a preview lists every connection found, flags duplicates against what you already have keep, replace, or skip — the duplicate's existing name shown so you know what you're replacing , and lets each new connection pick a target group — or create one on the fly, with defaults seeded from the source app's own folder structure. The feature ships marked beta , with a visible badge and a direct link to file an issue https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/issues — parsing five other apps' formats across three platforms is exactly the kind of surface where real-world files will find edge cases. One already got fixed before release: Beekeeper payloads containing non-ASCII characters used to abort the whole import on a byte-boundary panic; they now parse or skip gracefully. Video unavailable Folders Inside Folders Connection groups were single-level since the day they shipped. PR 405 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/405 , from @p4pupro https://github.com/p4pupro , makes them a real tree: groups can contain groups, to arbitrary depth, in both grid and list view. The workflow got the attention the data model change deserved: Create paths, not just names. Typing clients/acme/staging in the New Group input creates the whole chain, reusing existing segments case-insensitively — the same / syntax works in the inline subfolder input on each group header. Drag to re-parent. Dropping a group onto another group's header past one indent step moves it inside; dropping near the left edge keeps the plain reorder. A cycle guard refuses to move a folder into its own descendant, with a clear error rather than silent corruption. Cascade delete. Deleting a group now removes its entire subtree — nested groups and their connections included — instead of quietly orphaning children to the root. Counts that add up. A folder's badge sums direct and descendant connections, so a collapsed tree still tells you what's inside. Existing connections.json files keep working unchanged — parent id is optional and defaults to root — and the export/import path preserves the hierarchy, demoting any dangling parent reference to root instead of rendering ghost trees. Video unavailable Select Many, Act Once With imports and folders in place, you need a way to move things around in bulk. PR 468 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/468 adds multi-select to the connections list: a checkbox appears on hover, selected cards get a ring, and a pinned action bar shows the count with three actions — Move to group a submenu built from the nested tree, plus Ungrouped , Delete selected behind a confirmation with the count, and clear. @pokertour https://github.com/pokertour immediately wired the selection into the export flow in PR 469 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/469 : the action bar gains an Export button that writes only the selected connections. The filtering happens before secrets are resolved, so credentials for unselected connections never leave the keychain, and the exported group list is pruned to just the ancestor chains the retained connections actually need. Exports That Don't Leak Passwords Until now, exporting connections wrote database, SSH and Kubernetes credentials in plaintext behind a single warning dialog. PR 447 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/447 , also from @pokertour https://github.com/pokertour , replaces that with a proper export modal offering three modes: Encrypted with a password the default — the payload is encrypted with AES-256-GCM under an Argon2id -derived key. Plain text without passwords — secrets stripped entirely; fine for sharing a topology. Plain text with all passwords — the old behavior, with the warning now attached to the option that deserves it. Import detects the encrypted envelope and prompts for the password before merging. The decryption path is hardened too: the Argon2 parameters read from the envelope are bounded, so a malicious import file can't request unbounded memory or CPU. Plain exports from older versions import unchanged. ENUM Columns Become Dropdowns — on Both MySQL and PostgreSQL Editing an ENUM cell used to mean remembering the allowed values and typing one exactly. Two PRs fix that end to end. On MySQL, @fhriz https://github.com/fhriz introspected the full column type from information schema in PR 455 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/455 closes 452 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/issues/452 , so a column shows as enum 'pending','approved','rejected' instead of a stripped enum — and both the inline grid editor and the row sidebar render a dropdown of the allowed values, with a NULL option on nullable columns. SET types get the same treatment, ENUM joins the column-type picker for new tables, and the sidebar now matches column metadata by name rather than position, fixing type mismatches when a query's SELECT order differs from the table's. PostgreSQL followed in PR 471 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/471 fixes 465 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/issues/465 , where the problem ran deeper: editing an enum cell failed outright with SQLSTATE 42804 — column is of type X but expression is of type text — because the bound value was never cast to the enum type. The binding layer now wraps enum parameters in a CAST $N AS "schema"."type" with the qualified type name resolved from pg catalog , mirroring the existing temporal/UUID coercions. And since column introspection now aggregates labels from pg enum into the same enum 'a','b',... shape MySQL uses, the dropdown editor kicks in for PostgreSQL automatically — grid and sidebar both. MCP Safety: EXPLAIN ANALYZE Is Not a Read The MCP safety layer classifies queries so read-only mode and the write-approval prompt can gate them. Its classifier mapped anything starting with EXPLAIN to the read-only path — but EXPLAIN ANALYZE DELETE ... actually executes the DELETE. An AI agent could therefore slip a write past both gates by wrapping it. Thanks to @daniel-mertz https://github.com/daniel-mertz for reporting it; PR 456 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/456 makes classification option-aware: a plain EXPLAIN stays a read it only plans , while the presence of the ANALYZE option classifies the wrapped statement as if it had been submitted directly. Matching is word-boundary aware — a table named analyze runs doesn't trip it — and unbalanced option lists fail closed. Two more MCP improvements landed alongside it. @erneztox https://github.com/erneztox fixed list connections to serialize all of a connection's databases instead of collapsing them, and added a dedicated list databases tool in PR 426 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/426 , complete with AI Activity filtering and documentation across all translated READMEs. And the repo now has a security policy https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/blob/main/SECURITY.md documenting how to report vulnerabilities privately — with MCP safety-layer bypasses under an untrusted-input threat model explicitly called in scope. Windows Stops Flashing Terminals Two independent contributors fixed the same class of Windows papercut in the same release. Launching a console executable from a GUI app on Windows allocates a visible console window — so an SSH tunnel popped an ssh.exe terminal, and starting a plugin popped another. @kennelken https://github.com/kennelken fixed the SSH side in PR 418 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/418 fixes 413 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/issues/413 , spawning ssh.exe with the CREATE NO WINDOW flag — and went further: SSH child processes used to outlive the app, so the fix also hooks Tauri's exit event to tear down every active tunnel when Tabularis closes. No more orphaned ssh.exe in Task Manager. @erwin-lovecraft https://github.com/erwin-lovecraft applied the same CREATE NO WINDOW treatment to plugin processes in PR 451 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/451 , keeping the stdin/stdout pipe communication intact. Grid and Editor Refinements Column headers actually stay pinned. @thomaswasle https://github.com/thomaswasle fixed the result grid's sticky header in PR 433 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/433 — the old implementation fought the virtualizer with a counter-transform that desynced after ~40 rows of scrolling. The grid now uses spacer rows so position: sticky works unconditionally, and a Sticky column headers toggle in Settings → Appearance keeps the old behavior available. Hover a header, see the type. @benedettoraviotta https://github.com/benedettoraviotta added a DataGrip-style tooltip in PR 436 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/436 closes 435 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/issues/435 showing name: type — e.g. id: uuid — on column header hover, read from metadata already in hand, so it costs no backend round-trip. Set Empty knows its limits. The quick action used to write a single space to any non-BLOB column, which strongly-typed columns rejected column is of type uuid but expression is of type text . PR 442 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/442 gates it to textual columns, writes a real empty string, and swaps its icon for an eraser. Summon IntelliSense on demand. @GabrielMalava https://github.com/GabrielMalava added a configurable shortcut in PR 371 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/371 to force the SQL editor's suggestion widget open ⌘I on macOS, Ctrl+I on Windows, Ctrl+Space on Linux — remappable in Settings → Keyboard Shortcuts, working in both the editor and notebook cells — plus a new rebindable refresh table keybinding. Disconnected means disconnected. Disconnecting your last open connection didn't persist the change, so the next launch auto-reconnected and restored its tabs anyway. PR 467 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/467 persists the session at disconnect time; the saved tab file stays on disk, so manually reconnecting later still restores your queries. Tabularis Speaks Tagalog @chriscupas https://github.com/chriscupas contributed a complete Tagalog locale in PR 457 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/457 — 1,574 translated strings, a translated README, and browser-locale detection that maps Filipino fil systems to it automatically. That makes nine UI languages. @pokertour https://github.com/pokertour also brought French back to parity in PR 445 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/445 , adding the 66 keys that had accumulated in English only — triggers, result colors, timezone settings and more. Finding Tabularis useful? Star it on GitHub — it takes a second and helps more developers discover the project. Star on GitHub Smaller Things Typo-tolerant connection search @Davydhh https://github.com/Davydhh , PR 444 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/444 — the connection search joins the table filters and Quick Navigator on Fuse.js fuzzy matching, so postgre prod finds what you meant, ranked by closeness. SSH connections get a Settings tab PR 441 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/441 — saved SSH tunnels are now manageable from Settings, not just from inside the connection-creation modal, and deleting one warns how many database connections still reference it. No more autocorrect in filters @Necriso https://github.com/Necriso , PRs 432 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/432 and 437 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/437 — spellcheck, autocorrect and autocapitalize are off in the table toolbar and filter inputs, where they never belonged. Visual fixes @math-krish https://github.com/math-krish , PR 461 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/461 — auto-pagination colors fixes 448 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/issues/448 , dropdown menu font fixes 446 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/issues/446 , and the save menu that appears on edit. Modal consistency pass PR 440 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/440 — the last window.confirm calls replaced with the app's ConfirmModal, Escape now closes the trigger/routine/explain modals like every other one, primary fields autofocus, and a batch of hardcoded strings moved to i18n across all locales. Thanks Fourteen external contributors land in v0.15.0 — the widest tag yet. @pokertour owns the export story: password-encrypted connection exports 447 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/447 , export-only-the-selection 469 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/469 , and the French translation catch-up 445 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/445 . built nested connection groups @p4pupro https://github.com/p4pupro 405 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/405 . translated the entire app into Tagalog @chriscupas https://github.com/chriscupas 457 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/457 . @fhriz brought ENUM dropdown editing to MySQL 455 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/455 . silenced the Windows SSH console window and cleaned up tunnels on exit @kennelken https://github.com/kennelken 418 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/418 ; did the same for plugin processes @erwin-lovecraft https://github.com/erwin-lovecraft 451 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/451 . fixed the sticky result headers @thomaswasle https://github.com/thomaswasle 433 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/433 , added the column-type tooltip @benedettoraviotta https://github.com/benedettoraviotta 436 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/436 , and added the IntelliSense trigger shortcut @GabrielMalava https://github.com/GabrielMalava 371 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/371 . @erneztox fixed multi-database serialization in MCP and added list databases 426 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/426 . made the connection search fuzzy @Davydhh https://github.com/Davydhh 444 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/444 , killed autocorrect in the filters @Necriso https://github.com/Necriso 432 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/432 , 437 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/437 , and cleaned up pagination colors, the dropdown font and the save menu @math-krish https://github.com/math-krish 461 https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis/pull/461 . And thanks to for responsibly reporting the @daniel-mertz https://github.com/daniel-mertz EXPLAIN ANALYZE safety bypass.If you've been meaning to switch from DBeaver but dreaded retyping thirty connections, if your team shares connection files, or if your database leans on ENUMs — this is the upgrade. v0.15.0 is available now. Update via the in-app updater, or download from the releases page.