Release Notes for MariaDB Xpand 5.3.14

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Overview

MariaDB Xpand is a distributed SQL database. This release of MariaDB Xpand is a maintenance release.

MariaDB Xpand 5.3.14 was released on 2021-03-15.

This release note pertains to MariaDB Xpand version 5.3.14.

Added support for TLS 1.1 and later.
Added support for SHOW COLUMNS/FIELDS WHERE.
Added global variable have_statement_timeout
Added global variable net_read_timeout.
The global value of the binlog_format system variable is now changeable.
The output of the SHOW FIELDS statement now shows when a default value is NULL
The output of the SHOW BINARY LOGS statement now matches the output in ES.
Values of several columns in the COLUMNS information schema table are now improved:
- The PRIVILEGES column is no longer NULL
- The EXTRA column shows an empty string instead of NULL
- The column_key column is now filled out correctly.

In Xpand, upgrading from previous releases to 5.3.13 could cause binlogs to be unusable.
In Xpand, INSERT...SELECT incorrectly overwrote a value when the destination column is AUTO_UNIQUE
In Xpand, datetime or timestamp columns that used ON UPDATE NOW(6) were not updated correctly.

In Xpand, casting strings to ENUMs resulted in a compiler error.
In Xpand, intermittent issue could prevent successful installation due to "Relation not found" error.
In Xpand, an issue could prevent SHA256 password authentication from working properly.