MariaDB MaxScale 2.3.16 Release Notes -- 2020-01-16

Release 2.3.16 is a GA release.

This document describes the changes in release 2.3.16, when compared to the previous release in the same series.

For any problems you encounter, please consider submitting a bug report on our Jira.

New Features

• MXS-2758 Enable the systemd unit after setting up the maxscale package

Bug fixes

• MXS-2829 Deleting a filter doesn't remove the persisted file

• MXS-2825 REST API allows POST requests without body for basic users

• MXS-2824 Basic user access is not documented from maxctrl's perspective

• MXS-2820 Wrong error message for failed authentication

• MXS-2813 maxctl shows password in clear text

• MXS-2810 maxscale process still running after uninstalling maxscale package

• MXS-2797 maxscale not started with handle_server_events

• MXS-2792 Documentation for MaxScale's monitor script is incomplete

• MXS-2789 Stale journal messages are warnings

• MXS-2788 Masking filter performs case-sensitive checks against unquoted case-insensitive identifiers in function calls and WHERE clauses

• MXS-2759 Nontrivial number of privilege entries causes long running queries / overload

• MXS-2710 max_connections problem

• MXS-619 creating many short sessions in parallel leads to errors

Known Issues and Limitations

There are some limitations and known issues within this version of MaxScale. For more information, please refer to the Limitations document.

Packaging

RPM and Debian packages are provided for supported the Linux distributions.

Packages can be downloaded here.

Source Code

The source code of MaxScale is tagged at GitHub with a tag, which is identical with the version of MaxScale. For instance, the tag of version X.Y.Z of MaxScale is maxscale-X.Y.Z. Further, the default branch is always the latest GA version of MaxScale.

The source code is available here.

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