Update your calendars: The MariaDB ServerFest has moved to be two weeks later, Tue-Wed 5.-6. October 2021. We hope the new dates fit your calendar! Technical reasons The postponement is due to what is usually called "technical reasons", which is an expression intended to obscure any underlying facts. In our case, we don't need to obscure, but can openly disclose the reasoning and point to a few late speaker submissions and one early newborn. YAMB = Yet Another MariaDB Baby The early newborn is my son Felix. Before we knew his gender, he went under the description "October Revolution". He decided to break out already in September, but hey, the original October Revolution happened in November 1917, so why worry about a mismatching month.…

Now is the time to try out the new candidate features of MariaDB Server 10.7, the next release series of MariaDB! This blog describes how the new preview releases work, and where we need your help as a MariaDB user. The challenge: Making MariaDB mature quicker Remember the challenges and visions I described two weeks ago? To address them we launch an experiment with several parallel preview releases of MariaDB Server 10.7 features. This should solve two challenges mentioned in the blog: giving users early access to new functionality and making releases mature more rapidly through intensive internal testing.…