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Release Notes - MariaDB 11.6 Rolling Releases

MariaDB 11.6 was a rolling release, and is no longer maintained.

MariaDB 11.6 Changes & Improvements

MariaDB 11.6 is an old rolling release and is no longer maintained. Please use a more recent release.

The most recent release of MariaDB 11.6 is:MariaDB 11.6.2 Download NowAlternate download from mariadb.org

MariaDB 11.6 is a rolling release.

Upgrading

  • See Upgrading Between Major MariaDB Versions and Upgrading from MariaDB 10.11 to MariaDB 11.0.

Notable Items

Vectors

  • Vectors are a feature that allow MariaDB Server to perform as a relational vector database. In MariaDB 10.6, only available in the Vector preview release.

  • Vector Search was added to MariaDB 11.7.

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)

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.

Security Vulnerabilities Fixed in MariaDB 11.6

For a complete list of security vulnerabilities (CVEs) fixed across all versions of MariaDB, see the Security Vulnerabilities Fixed in MariaDB page. Add listcve macro here - removed for performance reasons

List of All MariaDB 11.6 Releases

Date
Release
Status
Release Notes
Changelog

21 Nov 2024

MariaDB 11.6.2

Stable (GA)

Release Notes

Changelog

14 Aug 2024

MariaDB 11.6.1

RC

Release Notes

Changelog

29 Jul 2024

MariaDB 11.6.0 Vector

Alpha

Release Notes

26 Jun 2024

MariaDB 11.6.0

Alpha

Release Notes

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MariaDB 11.6.2 Release Notes

DownloadRelease NotesChangelogOverview of 11.6

Alternate download from mariadb.org

Release date: 21 Nov 2024

MariaDB 11.6.2 is a Stable (GA) release. It is an evolution of MariaDB 11.5 with several entirely new features.

MariaDB 11.6 is a rolling release. One is expected to upgrade to MariaDB 11.7.2, there will be no 11.6.3.

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

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!

Notable Items

Storage Engines

InnoDB

  • Defaults change - the innodb_snapshot_isolation system variable now defaults to ON, previously was OFF (MDEV-35124)

  • Fix attempt to read outside the bounds of the file: ./ibdata1 (MDEV-34453)

  • Fix MariaDB crash with SIGILL because the OS does not support AVX512 (MDEV-34565)

  • Fix deadlock caused by lock_rec_unlock_unmodified() (MDEV-34690)

  • Fix duplicate key error in table 'mysql.innodb_table_stats' (MDEV-34207)

  • Fix possible adaptive hash index corruption with ALTER TABLE...IMPORT TABLESPACE and FULLTEXT SEARCH (MDEV-35059)

  • XA prepare now correctly releases unmodified records in non-blocking mode (MDEV-34466)

  • Fix contention between secondary index UPDATE and purge due to large innodb_purge_batch_size (MDEV-34515)

    • New default of 127 for innodb_purge_batch_size (previously 1000).

  • Fix redundant page lookups that hurt performance (MDEV-34791)

  • Implement innodb_log_file_mmap on 64-bit systems for improving ib_logfile0 reads (MDEV-34062)

Spider

  • Fix server crash when calling spider UDF after aria_encrypt_tables is enabled (MDEV-34682)

  • SELECT MIN on Spider table no longer returns more rows than expected (MDEV-26345)

  • Fix Spider group by handler wrong result on order by aggregate (MDEV-29546)

S3

  • Fix Storage Engine S3 that caused 500 error when using Huawai Cloud S3 and possibly other S3 providers (MDEV-34867)

    • A new option s3-provider has been added. s3-provider=Huawai needs to be set for Huawai Cloud S3

    • New option s3_ssl_no_verify, if true, SSL certificate verification for the S3 endpoint is disabled

Optimizer

  • Fix crash caused by query containing constant having clause (MDEV-23983)

  • Fix assertion with optimizer_join_limit_pref_ratio and 1-table select (MDEV-35072)

Data Definition - Alter Table

  • Under Windows Subsystem for Linux, InnoDB crashes on ALTER TABLE or OPTIMIZE TABLE (MDEV-34938)

  • modification of the column fails to check foreign key constraint (MDEV-34392)

  • Incorrect NULL value handling for instantly dropped BLOB columns (MDEV-35122)

Galera

  • Galera updated to 26.4.20

  • Fix server crash when setting wsrep_cluster_address after adding invalid value to wsrep_allowlist table (MDEV-31173)

  • TOI (ALTER) no longer hangs on a parent table if SR transaction is in progress on a child table (MDEV-34836)

  • Fix INSERT...SELECT' on MyISAM table suddenly replicated by alera (MDEV-34647)

  • Fix case where with wsrep_mode=REPLICATE_ARIA, only part of the mixed-engine transactions was replicated (MDEV-30653)

  • Fix galera_ssl_reload failure with warning message (MDEV-32778)

  • When InnoDB gets an assertion failure, WSREP layer is now handled gracefully (MDEV-32363)

Backup

  • Recovery now correctly notes some log corruption (MDEV-34802)

  • InnoDB now correctly merges the change buffer to ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED tables (MDEV-34879)

  • Can now selectively restore sequences using innodb tables from backup (MDEV-32350)

JSON

  • JSON_TABLE now properly unquotes strings (MDEV-27412)

  • JSON_TABLE default values now allows non-string literals (MDEV-25822)

General

  • mariadbd no longer hangs on startup when --init-file target does not exist (MDEV-34814)

  • LOAD DATA INFILE with geometry data no longer fails (MDEV-34883)

  • Fix heap-use-after-free in group_concat with compressed or GIS columns (MDEV-16699)

  • Fix assertion `!is_cond()' failed in Item_bool_func::val_int / do_select (MDEV-35135)

  • Trigger now works correctly with bulk update (MDEV-34718)

  • Fix assertion failure in find_producing_item upon a query from a view (MDEV-35276)

  • Add new setting, --quick-max-column-width to the mariadb client for use in --quick mode (MDEV-34704)

Security

  • Fixes for the following security vulnerabilities:

    • CVE-`-```

Changelog

For a complete list of changes made in MariaDB 11.6.2, with links to detailed information on each push, see the changelog.

Contributors

For a full list of contributors to MariaDB 11.6.2, see the MariaDB Foundation release announcement.

Be notified of new MariaDB Server releases automatically by subscribing to the MariaDB Foundation community announce 'at' lists.mariadb.org announcement list (this is a low traffic, announce-only list). MariaDB plc customers will be notified for all new releases, security issues and critical bug fixes for all MariaDB plc products thanks to the Notification Services.

MariaDB may already be included in your favorite OS distribution. More information can be found on the Distributions which Include MariaDB page.

This page is licensed: CC BY-SA / Gnu FDL

MariaDB 11.6.1 Release Notes

The most recent release of MariaDB 11.6 is:MariaDB 11.6.2 Download NowAlternate download from mariadb.org

Download 11.6.1Release NotesChangelogOverview of 11.6

Release date: 14 Aug 2024

Do not use non-stable (non-GA) releases in production!

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

MariaDB 11.6.1 is a Release Candidate (RC) release.

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

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!

Notable Items

Storage Engines

InnoDB

  • ALTER TABLE...ALGORITHM=COPY now builds indexes more efficiently (MDEV-33087)

    • Unsetting the innodb_alter_copy_bulk system variable restores the old behavior.

  • Correctly terminate transaction early with ER_LOCK_TABLE_FULL when lock memory is growing (MDEV-34167)

  • Alter operation on redundant table no longer aborts the server (MDEV-34222)

  • Fix MariaDB crash with SIGILL because the OS does not support AVX512 (MDEV-34565)

  • Fix InnoDB: Failing assertion: stat_n_leaf_pages > 0 in ha_innobase::estimate_rows_upper_bound (MDEV-34474)

  • wait_for_read in buf_page_get_low no longer hurts performance (MDEV-34458)

  • Fix InnoDB: Assertion failure in file ./storage/innobase/page/page0zip.cc line 4211 (MDEV-34357)

Aria

  • Fix Aria index corruption when doing a REPAIR TABLE that has a size of over 4G (MDEV-34522)

Spider

  • UBSAN: runtime error: applying non-zero offset in spider_free_mem and SIGSEGV in spider_free_mem on SELECT (MDEV-31475)

  • SIGSEGV in ha_resolve_storage_engine_name, UBSAN: runtime error: index 4294967295 out of bounds for type 'st_plugin_int *[64]' (MDEV-32487)

  • SIGSEGV in spider_db_conn::fin_loop_check, and ASAN: heap-use-after-free in spider_db_mbase::fin_loop_check on SHOW TABLE STATUS (MDEV-34541)

  • SIGSEGV in ha_spider::lock_tables on BEGIN after table lock (MDEV-29962)

  • SIGSEGV in spider_conn_first_link_idx and others on DELETE, INSERT and SELECT (MDEV-32492)

  • Spider: Crashes, asserts, hangs, memory corruptions and ASAN heap-use-after-free's (MDEV-27902)

  • Spider: @@insert_id 128 to TINYINT: Assertion ``!is_set() || (m_status == DA_OK_BULK && is_bulk_op())'` failed. (MDEV-28105)

  • ASAN errors in spider_db_free_result after partition DDL (MDEV-29027)

  • Server crashes when calling spider UDF after aria_encrypt_tables is enabled (MDEV-34682)

Partitioning

  • SIGSEGV in parse_engine_part_options on INSERT, SELECT or ALTER (MDEV-34421)

  • Assertion ``auto_increment_value'failed inha_partition::info` on INSERT into MEMORY table (MDEV-24610)

Character Sets

  • On startup: UBSAN: applying zero offset to null pointer in my_copy_fix_mb from strings/ctype-mb.c and other locations (MDEV-34226)

  • On startup: UBSAN: runtime error: applying zero offset to null pointer in skip_trailing_space and my_hash_sort_utf8mb3_general1400_nopad_as_ci (MDEV-34187)

  • SHOW CREATE DATABASE statement crashes the server when db name contains some unicode characters, ASAN stack-buffer-overflow (MDEV-32376)

  • Wrong result set with utf8mb4_danish_ci and BNLH join (MDEV-34417)

Optimizer

  • On startup: UBSAN: runtime error: applying non-zero offset in JOIN::make_aggr_tables_info in sql/sql_select.cc (MDEV-34227)

  • Crash after killing query while it is processed by test_quick_select (MDEV-30651)

  • Extend condition normalization to include 'NOT a' (MDEV-19520)

  • Constant subquery causing a crash in pushdown optimization (MDEV-29363)

  • Crash when pushing condition with CHARSET()/COERCIBILITY() into derived table (MDEV-33010)

  • 2nd execution name resolution problem with pushdown into unions (MDEV-34506)

  • Assertion ``(key_part->key_part_flag & 4) == 0'` failed key_hashnr (MDEV-34580)

  • Crash caused by query containing constant having clause (MDEV-23983)

  • Using NAME_CONST() (or executing query from the stored procedure and referring to a local variable) changes the plan and may make execution slower (MDEV-33971)

  • ORDER BY DESC causes ROWID Filter optimization performance degradation (MDEV-33875)

Replication

  • Auto-generated DELETE from HEAP table no longer breaks replication (MDEV-25607)

  • Fix replication failure when XA transactions are used where the replica has replicate_do_db set and the client has touched a different database when running DML such as inserts. (MDEV-33921)

  • Fix replication error when CHANGE MASTER TO is used in conjunction with a password longer than 41 ascii characters (MDEV-23857)

  • The --init-rpl-role option is utilized to avoid a possible error state in semisync recovery (MDEV-33465)

Backup

  • Hide password passed on commandline from xtrabackup_info (MDEV-34434)

Galera

  • Galera updated to 26.4.19

  • galera_gtid_2_cluster: Assertion ``thd->wsrep_next_trx_id() != (0x7fffffffffffffffLL * 2ULL + 1)'` (MDEV-32633)

  • table gtid_slave_pos entries never been deleted with wsrep_gtid_mode = 0 (MDEV-34170)

  • Deadlock found when trying to get lock during applying (MDEV-31658)

  • Change error code for Galera unkillable threads (MDEV-12008)

  • 10.11.8 cluster becomes inconsistent when using composite primary key and partitioning (MDEV-34269)

  • wsrep_sst_mariadb-backup use /tmp dir during SST rather then user defined tmpdir (MDEV-32158)

Error Log

  • server_uid system variable added, and value added to the error log at startup (MDEV-34494)

General

  • IMPORT TABLESPACE no longer unnecessarily traverses tablespaces list (MDEV-34670)

  • Fix unknown variable defaults-group-suffix= with mariadb-secure-installation (MDEV-33265)

  • mariadb-install-db no longer hangs on macOS (MDEV-34129)

  • Fix transaction termination with ER_LOCK_TABLE_FULL when lock memory is growing (MDEV-34167)

  • Disable new connections in case of fatal signal (MDEV-34475)

  • Control over memory allocated for SP/PS (MDEV-14959)

  • Triggers now work correctly with bulk insert (MDEV-24411)

  • Fix assertion ``table->field[0]->ptr >= table->record[0] && table->field[0]->ptr <= table->record[0] + table->s->reclength'failed invoid handler::assert_icp_limitations(uchar*)` (MDEV-34632)

  • sandbox mode - now compatible with --binary-mode (MDEV-34203)

Security

  • Fixes for the following security vulnerabilities:

    • CVE-`-```

Changelog

For a complete list of changes made in MariaDB 11.6.1, with links to detailed information on each push, see the changelog.

Contributors

For a full list of contributors to MariaDB 11.6.1, see the MariaDB Foundation release announcement.

Be notified of new MariaDB Server releases automatically by subscribing to the MariaDB Foundation community announce 'at' lists.mariadb.org announcement list (this is a low traffic, announce-only list). MariaDB plc customers will be notified for all new releases, security issues and critical bug fixes for all MariaDB plc products thanks to the Notification Services.

MariaDB may already be included in your favorite OS distribution. More information can be found on the Distributions which Include MariaDB page.

This page is licensed: CC BY-SA / Gnu FDL

MariaDB 11.6.0 Vector Release Notes

The most recent release of MariaDB 11.6 is:MariaDB 11.6.2 Download NowAlternate download from mariadb.org

Download 11.6.0 Vector SourceRelease NotesOverview of 11.6

Release date: 29 July 2024

Do not use alpha releases in production!

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

MariaDB 11.6.0 Vector is a preview release intended to highlight early work on Vectors. Features are to be considered preview, and will not be a part of MariaDB 11.6.

It is available as a source download only from the download site, and 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

Vectors

  • See Vectors

Variables

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

Be notified of new MariaDB Server releases automatically by subscribing to the MariaDB Foundation community announce 'at' lists.mariadb.org announcement list (this is a low traffic, announce-only list). MariaDB plc customers will be notified for all new releases, security issues and critical bug fixes for all MariaDB plc products thanks to the Notification Services.

MariaDB may already be included in your favorite OS distribution. More information can be found on the Distributions which Include MariaDB page.

This page is licensed: CC BY-SA / Gnu FDL

MariaDB 11.6.0 Release Notes

The most recent release of MariaDB 11.6 is:MariaDB 11.6.2 Download NowAlternate download from mariadb.org

Download 11.6.0Release NotesOverview of 11.6

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.

Be notified of new MariaDB Server releases automatically by subscribing to the MariaDB Foundation community announce 'at' lists.mariadb.org announcement list (this is a low traffic, announce-only list). MariaDB plc customers will be notified for all new releases, security issues and critical bug fixes for all MariaDB plc products thanks to the Notification Services.

MariaDB may already be included in your favorite OS distribution. More information can be found on the Distributions which Include MariaDB page.

This page is licensed: CC BY-SA / Gnu FDL