Release notes: August 31 – September 6, 2026

Changes with no impact on existing DDL/API functions

AI Copilot

  • Copilot Subagents: a new subagents menu with Planner and Reviewer. Planner breaks a task into steps before execution (with access to Copilot's full tool catalogue and any files you attach); Reviewer checks the work against your project standards
  • Copilot Skills can now be invoked from Forward Engineer full-script output, so you can apply reusable AI workflows (fix naming, add descriptions, and so on) directly against generated DDL
  • Copilot can now propose a new or updated skill — it opens the Skills manager with the fields pre-filled for you to review and save (handy for turning existing conventions or attached files into a review skill)
  • (Fix) Copilot's column and relationship tools now report results that match what actually happened — renames no longer change a column's display name unexpectedly or fail on casing, and creating a relationship no longer wrongly reports missing foreign key columns
  • (Fix) Merging a branch no longer resets a project's Copilot settings (global context and pre-prompts) — they're now preserved on both sides of the merge
  • (Fix) A table-level metric created by Copilot can now have its access modifier (public/private) changed afterward
  • (Fix) You can now clear a global, global-technical, or final instruction instead of hitting a validation error
  • (Fix) A follow-up message sent while Copilot is busy now gets a clear "busy" response instead of being silently blocked

Diagram

  • Object Groups: group tables into named, colored containers on the diagram — drag objects in and out, collapse and expand groups, filter and search by group, and use grouping actions and clipboard support. Groups work with iframe/macros, auto-layout, compare worksheets, and check-in/check-out

PostgreSQL

  • Direct Connect for PostgreSQL on AWS RDS: reverse-engineer schemas directly from a PostgreSQL RDS instance instead of importing DDL files
  • Push to Git for PostgreSQL now includes views, functions, procedures, and sequences, in addition to tables

Databricks

  • Compare-with-Unity now builds the target model directly from raw Unity Catalog metadata, producing more accurate diffs against the live catalog

Erwin Import

  • Erwin 9 import support: import Erwin models from version 9 and above, with fixes for diagram membership, cached views, and property mapping

Integrations

  • Collibra integration (Pull): pull data governance values from Collibra into SqlDBM (the reverse of the existing push). Governance-role users can preview incoming values, review changes per object on a compare screen, and accept them into a draft to save as a normal revision

Forward Engineering

  • Alter scripts now handle transformational column changes on Snowflake — column reorder, incompatible type changes, and length/precision reduction — that previously had no representation and could silently leave the model and database out of sync. When a change needs a rebuild rather than a simple ALTER, the editor asks you to confirm first, and SqlDBM generates the script to complete the change so your deployment pipeline keeps running

Compare

  • (Fix) Comparisons that include nulls (PostgreSQL option-bag collections and Data Governance fields) no longer produce false diffs
  • (Fix) Semantic models that can't be merged are now automatically unchecked in Compare & Merge, so you can't start an unmergeable merge

Project Stability

  • (Fix) Changes restored from a draft after a page reload are now saved correctly — previously a save didn't persist them and the project could revert on the next reload, in some cases losing schemas and tables

Permissions

  • Modeler-role users can now merge external mappings (previously blocked)
  • (Fix) User management operations (inviting users, updating members) no longer crash with a server error
  • (Fix) Transferring project ownership no longer fails when the target user already has a project with the same name

Performance

  • Faster dashboard project list, project dropdown, and Project Team page, especially for users and companies with many projects and members
  • Concurrent Working operations (branch, merge, switching branches) are faster and no longer flood the backend with parallel refresh requests
  • (Fix) Applying naming conventions right after a large Reverse Engineering import no longer causes browser out-of-memory errors