Upgrading Between Minor Versions on Linux

For Windows, see Upgrading MariaDB on Windows instead.

Before you upgrade, it would be best to take a backup of your database. This is always a good idea to do before an upgrade. We would recommend mariadb-backup.

To upgrade between minor versions of MariaDB on Linux/Unix (for example from MariaDB 10.11.4 to MariaDB 10.11.5), the following procedure is suggested:

  1. Stop MariaDB.

  2. Uninstall the old version of MariaDB.

  3. Install the new version of MariaDB.

  1. Make any desired changes to configuration options in option files, such as my.cnf.

  2. Start MariaDB.

To upgrade between major versions, see the following:

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