Beekeeper Studio 5.8 - DynamoDB, Query Edit History & Automatic Driver Downloads

June 1, 2026 Por Matthew Rathbone

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Happy summer everyone! Well here in Texas things are getting a little toasty, so thought we’d celebrate with an equally hot Beekeeper Studio release 🔥🔥.

Included: A brand new database driver, query edit history for workspaces, automatic driver downloads, better SSH config support, and a long tail of bug fixes, security hardening, and UI polish.

Highlights

Amazon DynamoDB support. Connect to DynamoDB and browse your tables, right inside Beekeeper Studio. Our 18th database engine.
Query Edit History. Every change you make to your data now gets recorded, so you can see what was run, when, and by whom. Backed by a refactored cloud audit API client for team workspaces.
Automatic driver downloads. Some database engines need heavy native drivers that we’d rather not ship with every build. There’s now a framework that downloads the right driver dependency on demand, the first time you need it, instead of bloating the installer for everyone.

Lowlights

Day has been working hard on a Snowflake driver, it’s almost done, but wasn’t ready in time for this release like we expected.

Azmi has been working on multi-hop SSH support so you can connect to your database via 2+ different jump hosts. Again, it just missed our release cutoff.

Smaller Improvements

New upgrade panel and modal used consistently across the app, with an animated AI Shell upsell card so it’s clearer what you get with a paid plan.
Bundled AI Shell upgraded to v3.1.0.
Empty connection folders now stay visible even when they don’t contain any connections yet, so your structure doesn’t disappear on you. Thanks @vaibhavvikas!
SSH config file resolution for host aliases — host entries from your ~/.ssh/config are now resolved when connecting.
Recent connections now use the saved connection’s details rather than a stale snapshot.
Local workspace can always be selected on the connection screen, even when a cloud license check is in flight.
Quieter production logs, with renderer messages routed to renderer.log instead of the main log.
Improved idle detection that combines system-level and in-app input tracking for more accurate auto-disconnect.

Bug Fixes

MongoDB: added the aws4 dependency to fix MONGODB-AWS authentication. Thanks @jim-fn!
Cassandra: UUIDs inside set and map collections are now converted to strings instead of rendering as objects. Thanks @andreasarf!
Table View: tables show a loading spinner instead of a misleading “No Data” message while results are still being fetched. Thanks @NianJiuZst!
Query streaming: fixed a bug that could break streamed result sets.
Named query params are no longer clobbered when the same parameter appears more than once across several queries.
Autocomplete now suggests columns for quoted table names and for tables used in joins.
Saved queries keep their folder and position when saved from a query tab. Fixes the case where saving would bounce a query back to the root.
Export progress no longer shows NaN or percentages over 100%.
Modals with a lot of content now scroll properly instead of overflowing.
Schema builder header is now sticky so column controls stay in view while you scroll.
Bastion / jump host background and padding render correctly under the system dark theme.
Plugin menus now share the same styling as the rest of the app’s menus.
File picker only shows the pointer cursor when it’s actually editable.
Page navigation no longer fires when focus is inside an editable element.
Cassandra rename and DuckDB column-type quoting: fixed two silent bugs in the SQL change builders.
Trial licenses: corrected the support-date expiration condition so valid trials aren’t rejected.
Write-action shortcuts, checkbox context menu, and a spurious “remote change” notification are all fixed.
Identifier handling updated, with an integration test covering identifier updates.

Security

Shell execution hardening: added exploit tests for shell execution paths to guard against remote code execution.
SQL injection: fixed injection vulnerabilities in buildDatabaseFilter.
Dependency bumps to clear a batch of advisories: follow-redirects, @xmldom/xmldom, ws, js-cookie, uuid, protobufjs (and protobufjs/utf8), @babel/plugin-transform-modules-systemjs, plus a yarn.lock refresh to clear undici, flatted, and other transitive alerts.

Under the Hood

Database test coverage expanded significantly across the common driver interface, plus new earthdistance operator formatting tests.
CI: trimmed the e2e PR trigger and added concurrency, cached Playwright browsers and e2e deps, and bumped some old checkout actions.
Linting: yarn lint now actually lints, and a pile of ESLint rule violations and code-quality issues were cleaned up.
BaseModal wrapper component introduced to standardize modal behaviour.
Backup and SSH tests fixed.

Thank You to Our Contributors!

Big thanks to the community folks who sent PRs for this release, including @vaibhavvikas (empty connection folders), @jim-fn (MongoDB AWS auth), @andreasarf (Cassandra UUID collections), @NianJiuZst (Oracle loading state), @v-astakhov (Greengage icons and docs), and everyone else who filed issues and helped us track things down.

PRs in this release

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