feat(blog): add the TablePro 0.81 release post

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+---
+slug: tablepro-0-81
+title: "TablePro 0.81: Tabs per Database, Firebase and Bigtable"
+description: Each database on a connection keeps its own tabs, plugins for Firestore, Realtime Database and Bigtable, and themes that reach every content view.
+date: 2026-10-16
+release: "TablePro 0.81"
+author: TablePro Team
+tags: [release, connections, oracle]
+ogPunchline: Each database keeps its own tabs. Firebase and Bigtable connect. Themes reach every pane.
+---
+
+TablePro 0.81 is out: 126 changes, 67 of them fixes.
+
+The tab bar follows the database you're on, Firestore, Realtime Database and Bigtable connect through new plugins, and themes now color every content view. A few rarely used features are gone, and the security fixes make this a critical update.
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+## Tabs per database
+
+With a database per tenant on one connection, every tab used to land in one strip, and two `orders` tabs looked the same. Now each database in the connections strip keeps its own tabs, and the tab bar shows the tabs of the one you're on.
+
+Switching database from the toolbar, the sidebar or **Open Database** brings back that database's last tab. Picking a tab of another database moves the sidebar there without changing the saved default. Query tabs stay on the database or schema they were opened in.
+
+On servers that switch schemas, such as Oracle, the query editor has a schema picker, so a query tab can point at another schema while the sidebar stays put.
+
+## Firebase and Bigtable
+
+Two new registry plugins, both contributed by [@i87ce](https://github.com/i87ce). Pick one in **Choose a Database** and TablePro offers the download before the form opens.
+
+- **Cloud Firestore and Firebase Realtime Database** share one plugin. Sign in with a service account key, Application Default Credentials or the emulators. A Firestore collection is a table, a document is a row, and subcollections show as collection groups such as `*/orders`
+- **Google Cloud Bigtable** works over the REST API. Rows show `_key` first and one column per `family:qualifier`, and a filter on `_key` reads only that key range
+
+Neither has SQL. The editor takes request lines instead, such as `GET users/alice` in Firestore.
+
+## Themes reach every pane
+
+A theme now colors the editor, the data grid, JSON trees, diffs, ER diagrams and charts, while controls and Settings keep the system look. It can also set the window background, which the sidebar, inspector and toolbar take on in macOS 26 and later.
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+**Settings > Appearance** has a **Light theme** and a **Dark theme** picker, plus **New Theme Based On**, **Rename** and **Show in Finder** for custom themes. Default Light and Default Dark use the system colors and Xcode's default syntax colors.
+
+**Themes made for 0.80 and earlier don't load.** Recreate a custom theme with **New Theme Based On**. Fonts left the theme file too: **Editor Font** is in **Settings > Editor** and **Data Grid Font** in **Settings > Data**.
+
+## Oracle password warnings
+
+An Oracle account in its password grace period used to time out after 30 seconds. It connects now, with a banner showing the server's warning. **Test Connection** shows it too.
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+## Removed
+
+- **Plugins signed by other developers no longer load.** Every registry plugin is signed by TablePro
+- **HTML and XML export are gone**
+- **The Cursor AI provider is gone**, and xAI needs an API key instead of Sign in with xAI. Cursor still reaches TablePro through MCP
+- **Every MCP request needs a token**, including one from this Mac
+- Server-Side Export for Oracle, Snowflake and BigQuery. Run the unload statement in a query tab
+- Export as SQL in the ER diagram, PostgreSQL enum label editing, the Server Dashboard for SQLite and DuckDB, and per-kind notification toggles
+
+## Security
+
+- MCP, pairing and query link prompts no longer take focus from the app you're typing in, and Return denies instead of approving
+- A pre-connect script asks before it runs when MCP, AppleScript, the AI assistant, Compare or Copy To opens the connection
+- Import and Transfer To go through Safe Mode's confirmation, Touch ID and the audit log
+
+That's why 0.81 is marked critical: the update alert comes up right away, without Skip or Remind Me Later.
+
+## Also new
+
+- Updates download as a delta from any of the last five releases. From 0.80 that's 14 MB on Apple silicon instead of a 32 MB zip
+- The `tablepro` command ships inside the app, and **Settings > General** shows the Terminal line that links it. No administrator prompt
+- The MCP server runs only while **Enable MCP Server** is on
+- A setting in **Settings > General** hides the version and **Check for Updates** on the Welcome window, by [@RaffeYang](https://github.com/RaffeYang)
+- AI chat scrolls without stutter and follows a reply as it streams
+
+## Fixes worth knowing about
+
+- Clearing a date, number or boolean cell saved an empty string instead of NULL, which MySQL stored as `0000-00-00 00:00:00`
+- MySQL dumps failed to restore on zero dates or `ANSI_QUOTES`, and shifted `TIMESTAMP` values across time zones
+- **Show DDL** on a view printed a made-up `CREATE TABLE` on SQL Server, Oracle, Dameng, DuckDB, Redshift and Cassandra
+- On iPhone and iPad, a query with more than one statement ran only the first
+
+## What it will not do
+
+- Firestore and Realtime Database have no live listeners. A grid shows what was read until you refresh it
+- Bigtable has no GoogleSQL and no reverse scans
+- PostgreSQL schemas inside one database stay one entry in the connections strip
+- An old theme has no converter. It has to be made again
+
+## Getting it
+
+TablePro checks for updates on its own, or choose **TablePro > Check for Updates…**, or download it from [tablepro.app](https://tablepro.app).
+
+The Oracle, Cassandra, Cloudflare D1, Dameng, DuckDB, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, SAP HANA, libSQL, MongoDB, MSSQL, Spanner, Teradata, Trino and Typesense drivers have updates in **Settings > Plugins**.

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