The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.9.3, MariaDB 10.8.5 and MariaDB 10.7.6, the latest Generally Available releases in their respective short-term support series (maintained for one year from their first GA release dates), as well as MariaDB 10.6.10 the latest stable release in the 10.6 long-term support series (maintained for five years).
These releases fix critical regressions found in the previous releases. See the release notes and changelogs for details.
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.9?
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Our most recent MariaDB Server release introduced some regressions starting with the 10.6 series, affecting 10.7 – 10.9 as well. This blog post is here to explain the problems in hopes that the impact is minimized. We are likely going to release a new version of MariaDB correcting these problems soon.
InnoDB Full Text Index on tables causes an assertion error (MDEV-29342)
There was a bug in the InnoDB Storage Engine where the full text index could go out of sync with the actual table data. This would happen when only one new row was inserted between the last InnoDB sync (which happens asynchronously) and a server shutdown.
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In the last meeting, the MariaDB Foundation Board proposed the regular publishing of contribution statistics. This post is an update on our progress and the first report.
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Something that is very important to us in the MariaDB Foundation is “Openness”. This is not only in the open source nature of MariaDB, but we are also very transparent in what happens with the MariaDB source code. With that in mind we have been working on ways to generate metrics that show information about the community in a consumable form.
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I have been working for the MariaDB Foundation as the Chief Contributions Officer for a couple of weeks and it is fantastic being part of the MariaDB family again. Part of my job is to help the community massage pull requests into something that we can merge. I am, however, finding that one of the worst parts of my job is having to say “no” to contributions that clearly took a lot of time and effort on the part of the developer.
Contributions could be turned down or at least will require changes for a number of reasons.
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Would you like to contribute to the MariaDB Server code base, its feature set, its quality? Here’s what you can do to help – in other words, here’s our Contribution Wish List
Scratching your own itch
The assumption around code contributions is usually that the code contributor extends the product in a direction that corresponds to the contributor’s own needs, which in turn are close to the needs of other users. “Scratching your own itch” is the phrase commonly used.
Some itches are more for the common good
That said, we have also been approached by potential providers of contributions that would take a more general approach.
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The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.10.1, the first release candidate in the MariaDB 10.10 series, and MariaDB 10.9.2 the first generally available release in the MariaDB 10.9 series. These are both short-term support series, maintained for one year after GA.
See the release notes and changelogs for details.
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.10?
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.9?
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The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.8.4 and MariaDB 10.7.5, the latest Generally Available releases in their respective short-term support series (maintained for one year from their first GA release dates), as well as MariaDB 10.6.9, MariaDB 10.5.17, MariaDB 10.4.26, MariaDB 10.3.36 the latest stable releases in their respective long-term support series (maintained for five years).
See the release notes and changelogs for details. Note that repo mirrors may take some time to sync.
Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.8?
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