We’re excited to share the latest updates to DBmarlin, including a brand-new DB Versions screen, improvements to DBmarlin Co-Pilot, and a number of performance and upgrade enhancements.

🔍 DB Versions screen

We’ve introduced a new DB Versions screen that helps you keep track of the database versions you are running. For each monitored instance, you can see the current version and its release date. You can also see the latest available patch or cumulative update, with links to vendor release notes. The table shows when mainstream and extended support ends, and whether the version is still maintained or end of life.

This information is valuable to DBAs and application owners for identifying instances running on unsupported or soon-to-be-unsupported versions and planning upgrades ahead of time with confidence.

🔍 Co-Pilot enhancements

We’ve made several improvements to DBmarlin AI Co-Pilot. Firstly, we have added support for the brand-new gpt-5 models from OpenAI. These are “thinking models,” which can take a little longer to respond but usually provide higher-quality answers. We also include gpt5-mini and gpt5-nano, which are smaller, faster, and cheaper models but may not deliver results as strong as the full gpt-5.

On the Deadlock screen, available for Oracle and SQL Server, we added the Co-Pilot button to send deadlock information to the Co-Pilot for advice.

🛠 Many other enhancements

As usual, we’ve also packed several other updates and fixes into this release.

• Infrastructure updates include the latest performance and security fixes.
• Streamlined upgrades, particularly when schema changes are involved. Data-Migrator performance has been improved to make schema changes much faster, and TimescaleDB aggregation jobs are paused to avoid conflicts such as the deadlocks that sometimes occurred when dropping the old schema.

See the release notes for a full list of changes: https://docs.dbmarlin.com/docs/Release-notes/v5.8.0