Bug Fixed since Oracle SQL Developer 1.5.1 was released in June 2008.

SQL Developer 1.5.3. is primarily a translation release, with a number of bug fixes as a secondary focus. Many bugs logged have been fixed and will be in SQL Developer 2.0. This list of bug fixes is not all-inclusive. It includes the main bugs fixed that did not make it into SQL Developer 1.5.1 release. For the list of bugs fixed between SQL Developer 1.5.0 and SQL Developer 1.5.1, please see the SQL Developer 1.5 Bugs Fixed list. This list is a selection of higher priority bugs, customer bugs in Metalink and a selection of those reported by the community on the forum.

• General
  • 7355899: Performance issues on opening tables nodes
  • 6877752: Clicking find tools in external tools displaying registry exception
  • 7243750: Drop table purge
  • 6828106: Functions not displaying return type
  • 7243714: Navigator: indicate public/private programs in package body
  • 7243766: Performance monitoring
  • 5162861: Persist last directory for all os interactions
  • 5165109: Tree menu not in sync when doing 'find' in a package
  • 7243755: Sort connections & create groupings
  • 6802528: Cannot handle identifiers that begin with a dollar sign
  • 7261683 Apex import fails for special characters
    
• Browser
  • 7246678: Add the ability to refresh a materialized view
  • 5214770: Included alphabetical ordering of functions / procedure in package
  • 7243076: Include alphabetical ordering of functions / procedure in package
  • 7310936: View does not show other users columns
  • 7151518: Grant > privileges - loading dialog box flashes 3 times after being cancelled
    
• Connections
• 6945271: Connection drop lists are sorted, but not case insensitive sort
• 7206476: Disconnect after creating & browsing pl/sql objects- shows exception
• 6836296: MAC: new connection dialog too small for connect button
• 5362733: Network alias not populated from "tnsnames.ora" in citrix environment
• 7044022: Not using tns_admin or ldap_admin to find ldap.ora
• 7044273: Wildcard used when searching for .ora files
• 7387779 proxy user objects are not listed in connection navigator
  
• Create and Modify
  • 6817124: Import data : unable to import date using xls
  • 7440901: Error thrown when adding to folder->new folder selected for a db connection
  • 7031876: Single row sub query returns more than one row - view breaks and no data shows
    
• SQL Worksheet
  • 7132408: Import data wizard - could not run script in worksheet
  • 7481915: Refactor: display compile errors in worksheet
  • 6282052: Select with joins causes sql developer to loop
  • 7478137: Separator: german group separator
    
• Data
  • 7203623: Date and timestamp columns are not showing up in sql dev 1.5.1
  • 6860918: Sorting on table with duplicate column names throws exceptions
    
• PL/SQL
  • 7463068 probe debugging does not work
  • 7389123: Collapse icons don't show
  • 7172737: Exception after opening plsql editor and then disconnecting the connection
  • 7374927: Long lines in pl/sql source are broken on 4000 char boundary
  • 7389109: Some code templates don't work
    
• Preferences
  • 6956545: PL/SQL compiler options: incorrect syntax near the keyword alter
  • 7279723: Preference -> migration
  • 7140108: Inappropriate spacing on certain options: = > instead of =>
    
• Migrations and Third Party
  • 7319302: Convert to oracle model -- dialog hang in converting status
  • 7488958: Dieresis (#) characters are removed from column names
  • 2407737: Line number is wrong in the log window/message when the parser fails
  • 7132629: Microsoft Access exporter tools are not functioning
  • 4586853: Online character scanner
  • 2148973: Sybase 11 hanging when mapping foreign keys
  • 6979432: Print statement with var substitution not translated correctly
  • 2389603: Sys columns not migrated
  • 2389594: Update-statements with inline views are not migrated correctly
  • 2523564: User defined datatypes should be migrated to packages-types
  • 3285753: Warning message migrating a sybase procedure to oracle reported by workbench
    
• Import and Export
  • 7265123: Not able to import data containing character such as quotes (''') and comma (,)
  • 7287259: Result panel> export data - throws ora00904 error
  • 7154185: Data import wizard, cannot proceed beyond step 1 of 4
  • 7136086: Import data from xls hangs
    
• Reports
  • 7271134: Add ash row source report
  • 7327107: Add encrypted tablespaces to report in sql developer
  • 7271163: Add more reports for monitoring the database