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MariaDB 10.4.3 Release Notes

The most recent release of MariaDB 10.4 is:MariaDB 10.4.34 Stable (GA) Download Now

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Release date: 25 Feb 2019

MariaDB 10.4 is the current development series of MariaDB. It is an evolution of MariaDB 10.3 with several entirely new features not found anywhere else and with backported and reimplemented features from MySQL.

MariaDB 10.4.3 is a Release Candidate release.

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

For an overview of MariaDB 10.4 see theWhat is MariaDB 10.4? page.

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!

Notable Changes

Notable changes of this release include:

  • MDEV-12484: The unix_socket authentication plugin is now default on Unix-like systems, which is a major change to authentication in MariaDB

  • MDEV-11340: Allow multiple alternative authentication methods for the same user

  • MDEV-7597: User password expiry

  • MDEV-6111: Implementation of the optimizer trace, one can enable the optimizer trace by enabling the system variable optimizer_trace

  • Temporal tables extended with support for application-time periods (MDEV-16973, MDEV-16974, MDEV-16975, MDEV-17082)

  • MDEV-18551: The default for eq_range_index_dive_limit is now 200 (previously 0)

  • MDEV-17903: The optimizer switch flag optimize_join_buffer_size now defaults to on

  • New optimizer switch flags rowid_filter and condition_pushdown_from_having

  • MDEV-18439: core_file on Windows now defaults to ON

  • MDEV-18608: Histograms are now used (but not collected) by default.

  • MDEV-13916: The JSON_VALID function is automatically used as a CHECK constraint for the JSON data type alias in order to ensure that a valid json document is inserted

  • Spider updated to 3.3.14

  • Unique indexes can be created on BLOB or TEXT fields (MDEV-371)

  • MDEV-18564: wsrep_load_data_splitting is deprecated and now set to OFF by default

  • analyze_sample_percentage system variable

  • InnoDB ALTER TABLE fixes: MDEV-18222, MDEV-18256, MDEV-18016, MDEV-18295, MDEV-16849, MDEV-18219

  • mariadb-backup fixes: MDEV-18194, MDEV-18415, MDEV-18611

  • New InnoDB features:

    • MDEV-12026: Implement innodb_checksum_algorithm=full_crc32

    • MDEV-15563: More Instant VARCHAR extension

    • MDEV-15564: Instant collation or charset changes for non-indexed columns

    • MDEV-16188: Use in-memory PK filters built from range index scans

  • Debian has stopped supporting the ppc64el architecture for Debian 8 Jessie and so this is the last release of MariaDB 10.4 on Jessie for that architecture

  • Fixes for the following security vulnerabilities:

    • CVE-`-```

Changelog

For a complete list of changes made in MariaDB 10.4.3, with links to detailed information on each push, see the changelog.

Contributors

For a full list of contributors to MariaDB 10.4.3, see the MariaDB Foundation release announcement.

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