MariaDB 5.3.3 Release Notes

The most recent release in the MariaDB 5.3 series is:MariaDB 5.3.12

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Release date: 21 Dec 2011

MariaDB 5.3.3 is a Release Candidate release. In general this means that there are no known serious bugs, except for those marked as feature requests and no bugs were fixed since last the release which caused any notable code changes. We believe the code is ready for general usage (based on bug inflow), but we want more testing before calling it stable.

MariaDB 5.3 radically improves performance for subqueries as well as for joins and single-table queries over large data sets.

For a detailed description of MariaDB 5.3 see the What is MariaDB 5.3 page.

Compared to MariaDB 5.3.0, 5.3.1, and 5.3.2, MariaDB 5.3.3 is a bug-fix release with a focus on stability, performance, and usability. It is the third beta release of the 5.3 series and fixes bugs found in the initial 5.3.0 and 5.3.1 beta releases.

• New feature: were added (Documentation is being worked on)

• Stability: All known critical bugs have been fixed.

• Performance:

  • More optimizer features have been thoroughly tested, and switched on by default:

For a list of every change made in , with links to detailed information on each push, see the . It is worth noting that is built on ,, and MySQL 5.1.

In most respects will work exactly as MySQL: all commands, interfaces, libraries and APIs that exist in MySQL also exist in MariaDB.