MariaDB 13.0.1 Release Notes

MariaDB 13.0.1 is a Release Candidate (RC) release of MariaDB Community Server 13.0, released on 2026-05-29

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Release date: 29 May 2026

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MariaDB 13.0 is a rolling release. It is an evolution of MariaDB 12.3 with several entirely new features.

MariaDB 13.0.1 is a Release Candidate (RC) release.

For an overview of MariaDB 13.0 see the MariaDB 13.0 Changes & Improvements page.

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!

New Features

• Add support for TYPE .. IS REF CURSOR (MDEV-10152)

• One can specify timestamp format for the audit plugin log (MDEV-18386)

• Atomic CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE (MDEV-25292)

• INFORMATON_SCHEMA.SYSTEM_VARIABLES shows if a variable is deprecated (MDEV-35369)

• INFORMATON_SCHEMA.STATISTICS and INFORMATON_SCHEMA.COLUMNS shows engine specific create options (MDEV-36444)

• Optimizer Trace includes used optimizer statistics (MDEV-36511)

• New innodb_log_archive variable makes InnoDB preserve the write-ahead log in a continuous sequence of files instead of overwriting a ring buffer, enabling point-in-time recovery and incremental backups (MDEV-37949)

• New QB_NAME() optimizer hint (MDEV-38045)

• Support RECORD in routine parameters and function RETURN clause (MDEV-38768)

• Reversed executable comments (MDEV-7381)

Notable Items

• CHANGE MASTER now resets Master_Server_Id in SHOW SLAVES STATUS (MDEV-15327)

• Faster unique indexes over CHAR columns in MEMORY tables (incl. temporary tables) (MDEV-21543)

• PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA now uses XXH3_128 hash for digest. Looks like MD5, but much faster and no problems in FIPS mode. (MDEV-31669)

• binlog_row_event_max_size default value was increased to 64k (MDEV-37608)

• default_master_connection can now be set on global level (MDEV-9247)

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