SSL (let’s call it that, even though SSL 2.0 and SSL 3.0 were long replaced by TLS 1.0–1.3 protocols) support was implemented in MySQL in 2001, so MariaDB (born in 2009) always had it. But over more than twenty years of SSL support there was one huge problem with it. It required tedious manual configuration, so most users never bothered and accepted the fact that their queries and data were sent unprotected. Which might have been slightly risky in 2001, but is definitely reckless in 2023.
The traditional approach
Let’s see. First, the user installing MariaDB or MySQL has to generate a private key and a certificate.
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We are happy to release the schedule (https://mariadb.org/fest2023-schedule/) of our upcoming meeting week Tue-Thu 3-5 October 2023.
The week comes with meetings in four flavours:
- The MariaDB Server Fest presentations, directed at users of MariaDB Server. This is on Thursday 5 October 2023.
- The MariaDB Unconference presentations, directed at core developers of MariaDB Server. This is on Wednesday 4 October 2023.
- The MariaDB Unconference work sessions, interactions getting work done between MariaDB Foundation staff and core members of the ecosystem (including but not limited to MariaDB plc employees).
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The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 11.3.0, a preview release in the MariaDB 11.3 series. MariaDB 11.3 is a short-term release and will be maintained for one year after its G.A (stable) release.
See the release notes for details.
Release Notes What is MariaDB 11.3?
Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB! …
Hi, we from the MariaDB Foundation are having a set of meetings with developers and senior managers from all over the world. We’d like your feedback on the Good/Bad/Ugly bits of MariaDB Server as you see it, and generally what we could be doing better. Please leave comments here, or Reddit, or email discuss@lists.mariadb.org (subscription), or email me directly daniel@mariadb.org.
This will be discussed at the MariaDB (Un)conference 2023 and MariaDB Server Fest 2023 which you are welcome to attend also to state your cases in person.
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“The only workload that matters is my production workload” (for all values of “my”). So you can manage this responsibility, SCARY is a software tool which aims to take the uncertainty out of change; software, configuration and hardware changes. This is very early in development, but projects have to start somewhere.
SCARY takes a read view of the production database query execution, and does the equivalent query on a copy of the production database, that has differences. The query speed, query plan, data result (eventually) will be recorded along with what went on in production.
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The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 11.2.1, the first Release Candidate in the MariaDB 11.2 series, and MariaDB 11.1.2, the first stable release in the MariaDB 11.1 series. Both are short-term series and will be maintained for one year after their respective G.A (stable) releases.
See the release notes and changelogs for details.
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 11.2?
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 11.1?
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MariaDB Foundation polls are an informal way to get feedback from our community. They’ve always been a bit hidden, but the most recent poll sat on the mariadb.org front page for a while, and got a healthy 5,225 votes.
It asked “What programming languages do your applications that communicate with MariaDB use?”, and here are the results:
| Python | 30% |
| PHP | 30% |
| Java | 19% |
| NodeJS | 16% |
| C# | 15% |
| C/C++ | 11% |
| Bash/Shell/Powershell | 7% |
| Other | 7% |
| TypeScript | 6% |
| Go | 6% |
| Rust | 4% |
| R | 3% |
| Ruby | 2% |
How do we use these results?
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The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.11.5, MariaDB 10.6.15, MariaDB 10.5.22 and MariaDB 10.4.31, the latest stable releases in their respective long-term series (maintained for five years from their first stable release dates), as well as MariaDB 11.0.3, MariaDB 10.10.6 and MariaDB 10.9.8, the latest stable releases in their respective short-term series (maintained for one year).
See the release notes and changelogs for details.
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 11.0?
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