MariaDB 11.6.0 Release Notes

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Release date: 26 June 2024

Do not use alpha releases in production!

MariaDB 11.6 is a rolling release. It is an evolution of MariaDB 11.5 with several entirely new features.

MariaDB 11.6.0 is a single preview release. Features are to be considered preview, and none are guaranteed to make it into MariaDB 11.6.

The preview is available as a container quay.io/mariadb-foundation/mariadb-devel:11.6-preview.

For an overview of MariaDB 11.6 see theWhat is MariaDB 11.6? page.

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!

Notable Items

Character Sets

• The default character set has been changed from latin1 to utf8mb4 (MDEV-19123)

Backup and Restore

• Added the --dir option to mariadb-import, allowing one to restore all tables from a backup directory created using mariadb-dump --dir (MDEV-33627)

  • Added the related --database, --ignore-database, --table and --ignore-table options.

  • Refactor mariadb-import threading

• Automatic SST user account management (MDEV-31809)

Optimizer

• Improve selectivity computations for multi-part keys (MDEV-33697)

Syntax

• Single-table DELETEs now support table aliases (MDEV-33988)

Authentication

• New authentication plugin (MDEV-32618)

• Extend Unix socket authentication to support authentication_string (MDEV-33479)

Replication

• New definition for Seconds_Behind_Master (MDEV-33856)

  • Added three variables to SHOW ALL REPLICAS STATUS

  • New Information Schema SLAVE_STATUS Table

General

• Set thread names for MariaDB Server threads (MDEV-32537)

Variables

• For a list of all new variables, see System Variables Added in MariaDB 11.6 and Status Variables Added in MariaDB 11.6.

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