MariaDB Server: The open source relational database

MariaDB 10.10 preview releases now available

We are pleased to announce the fourth MariaDB series release under the new release model, MariaDB 10.10.0. Maturing MariaDB more quickly One of the purposes of the new model is to get features into the hands of users more quickly, in a form which supports stability by allowing the new feature to be more easily tested, separate from other new features being developed at the same time. Candidate features for MariaDB 10.10 There are four separate preview releases, containing the following features under consideration for release in 10.10.1: Replication Change defaults for CHANGE MASTER TO so that GTID-based replication is used by default if master supports it (MDEV-19801) Deprecate MASTER_USE_GTID=Current_Pos to favor new MASTER_DEMOTE_TO_SLAVE option (MDEV-20122) Optimizer Improve optimization of joins with many tables, including eq_ref tables (MDEV-28852) * Table elimination does not work across derived tables (MDEV-26278) UCA14 Collation Add UCA-14.0.0 collations (MDEV-27009) Improve contraction performance in UCA collations (MDEV-27265) Improve UCA collation performance for utf8mb3 and utf8mb4 (MDEV-27266) DDL ALTER ONLINE TABLE (MDEV-16329) Atomic CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE (MDEV-25292) Galera Implement a method to add IPs to allowlist for Galera Cluster node addresses that can make SST/IST requests (MDEV-27246) Miscellaneous Change default of explicit_defaults_for_timestamp to ON (MDEV-28632)--ssl option set as default for mariadb CLI (MDEV-27105)Add RANDOM_BYTES function (MDEV-25704)The INET4 data type (MDEV-23287)Re-design the upper level of handling UPDATE and DELETE statements (MDEV-28883)Deprecate the DES_ENCRYPT/DECRYPT functions (MDEV-27104) On the download page for 10.10.0, you will see sources in Linux (x86-64 bintar) and source formats only.…

MariaDB 10.10 preview releases now available

We are pleased to announce the fourth MariaDB series release under the new release model, MariaDB 10.10.0.
Maturing MariaDB more quickly
One of the purposes of the new model is to get features into the hands of users more quickly, in a form which supports stability by allowing the new feature to be more easily tested, separate from other new features being developed at the same time. …

MariaDB & K8s: How to replicate MariaDB in K8s

In the previous blog we have seen how to create a statefulset MariaDB application. Also, we learned how replication works in MariaDB in this blog.

A mirror manager system to simplify the distribution of MariaDB binaries and packages

The MariaDB Foundation relies on public mirrors to distribute binaries and packages to the world. An overview of the full list can be seen at https://mirmon.mariadb.org. …

An intra-pandemic Staff Meeting

Well over two years ago was the last time the MariaDB Foundation staff had met. That was at FOSDEM, in February 2020. Thus, no big surprise, one of our topmost goals for 2022 was to have a staff meeting, face to face. …

We’re hiring: Senior MariaDB Developer / Code Reviewers

Yes, we are hiring! 
And we are hiring for quite an interesting position: As a senior developer of MariaDB Server, with merging community code contributions as a main task. …