MariaDB MaxScale 2.5.18 Release Notes

Release 2.5.18 is a GA release.

Released: 12 Jan 2022

This document describes the changes in release 2.5.18, when compared to the previous release in the same series.

If you are upgrading from an older major version of MaxScale, please read the upgrading document for this MaxScale version.

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

Bug fixes

• MXS-3938 Debug assert in xpandmon

• MXS-3934 Linking a service at runtime to an xpandmon doesn't work

• MXS-3933 Avro reader client can fail

• MXS-3928 MaxScale logs a warning when users are loaded from a Xpand cluster

• MXS-3920 Can't connect to MaxScale when schema uses utf8mb4 chars >= U0080

• MXS-3897 MaxScale crashes when executing CDC process to kafka

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.