Signed downloads and Markdown support

Certificate for installers and nightly builds

Finally I bought a certificate at certum.eu to sign the HeidiSQL installers and nightly build files. The latest built installer and nightly builds now don't show a warning message in Windows 7, 8 and 10 any longer. Instead, Windows 7 displays the certificate owner in a dialog when executing:

For all Open Source developers - here's my tutorial for obtaining and managing a code signing certificate using signtool.exe.

Markdown syntax support in this forum

After updating most webserver components on heidisql.com I thought I could add Markdown support to the forum. Markdown provides an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, which then converts to valid HTML for viewing forum threads on heidisql.com.

Learn the basics for Markdown on GitHub.

This adds - amongst other features - support for pasting table results from HeidiSQL here. Here comes an example table, copied in Markdown Here format from HeidiSQL via Export grid rows dialog:

What software are you using for the forums?

Homebrown and self-written.

A year ago this certificate was free for open source developers.

FYI, you can get a free code signing cert (for open source projects) from GlobalSign: https://www.globalsign.com/en/ssl/ssl-open-source/

Sorry to resurrect an otherwise old thread! ????

Regards, Ben