Release Notes for MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.2.29-4

Overview

This fourth release of MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.2 is a maintenance release, including a variety of fixes.

MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.2.29-4 was released on 2019-11-18.

Fixed Security Vulnerabilities

CVE (with cve.org link)

CVSS base score

CVE-2020-2780

6.5

CVE-2019-2974

6.5

CVE-2019-2938

4.4

Notable Changes

  • New option innodb_change_buffer_dump added to Debug builds. This option dumps the contents of the InnoDB change buffer to the server error log at startup. This is useful when a slow shutdown cannot be performed successfully. (MDEV-20864)

  • Eliminated unnecessary logging of warnings to the error log regarding InnoDB maximum row size for DML statements which should be present only for DDL operations. (MENT-454)

Issues Fixed

Can result in data loss

  • mariabackup --prepare --export ... could overwrite binary logs if certain conditions were present. (MDEV-20703)

    Conditions which must be present to trigger this bug:

    • mariabackup is executed on the MariaDB Server host, and

    • Configuration files from the master are used, and

    • Configuration files enable binary logging

    If unable to upgrade to MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.2.29-4, where this bug is fixed, a workaround is available: use the --defaults option to mariabackup to avoid the bug-triggering conditions by specifying a different configuration file.

Can result in a hang or crash

Can result in unexpected behavior

  • Unnecessary logging of warnings to the error log regarding InnoDB maximum row size for DML statements which should be present only for DDL operations. (MENT-454)

  • After server restart, a SELECT using a FULLTEXT index on InnoDB tables can fail to return some data. (MDEV-19073)

  • MariaDB Enterprise Backup and MariaDB Backup, when using mbstream, recreated xtrabackup_info in the same directory as the backup file. Repeated extract of the backup could fail. (MDEV-18438)

  • mysqld_multi.sh script could not be launched and returned a syntax error. (MENT-433)

  • Though not supported on Microsoft Windows, the server_audit_output_type system variable for the Audit plugin accepted a SYSLOG value. (MDEV-19851)

Interface Changes

Platforms

In alignment to the enterprise lifecycle, MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.2.29-4 is provided for:

  • CentOS 8

  • CentOS 7

  • CentOS 6

  • Debian 10

  • Debian 9

  • Debian 8

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12

  • Ubuntu 18.04

  • Ubuntu 16.04

  • Microsoft Windows

Some components of MariaDB Enterprise Server might not support all platforms. For additional information, see "MariaDB Corporation Engineering Policies".

Note

CentOS 6, Debian 8, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 are no longer supported as per the MariaDB Engineering Policy. Older releases are available from the MariaDB Downloads page. Instructions for installation are included as a README file within the download.