MariaDB 13.1.1 Release Notes

MariaDB 13.1.1 is a Release Candidate (RC) release of MariaDB Community Server 13.1, released on 2026-09-15

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Release date: 15 Sep 2026

Do not use non-stable (non-GA) releases in production!

MariaDB 13.1 is a rolling release. It is an evolution of MariaDB 13.0 with many entirely new features.

MariaDB 13.1.1 is a Release Candidate (RC) release.

For an overview of MariaDB 13.1 see the MariaDB 13.1 Changes & Improvements page.

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!

New Features

• Support for JSON operators column->path and column->>path (MDEV-13594)

• DENY clause for access control a.k.a. "negative grants" (MDEV-14443)

• Auto-adding new partitions for PARTITION BY RANGE (MDEV-15621)

• Improve error reporting of mysqlbinlog when used with --flashback (MDEV-20749)

• Locking full table scan fails to use table-level locking (MDEV-24813)

• Add formatted column support to JSON_TABLE (MDEV-25727)

• Ignored domain ids skip validation when connecting to a master (MDEV-28213)

• The default utf8 character set is now utf8mb4 (MDEV-30041)

• New statement CREATE TRIGGER FOR { STARTUP | SHUTDOWN } (MDEV-30645)

• Optional lengths for string types: VARCHAR[(N)] (MDEV-31414)

• mariadbd --validate-config to check the configuration for validity without starting the server (MDEV-31527)

• mariadb-dump no longer includes generated column values in a dump (MDEV-32362)

• NEW and OLD in a trigger can be used as row variables (MDEV-34723)

• INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VECTOR_INDEXES provides information about vector indexes (MDEV-34805)

• parsec_iterations session variables allows to set the number of PBKDF2 rounds for PARSEC plugin (MDEV-35254)

• ADAPTIVE_HASH_INDEX = { YES | NO | DEFAULT } can specify per InnoDB table whether to use AHI (MDEV-37070)

• XMLISVALID() schema validation function (MDEV-37262)

• AND/OR can now short-circuit the execution for any argument not in a strictly left-to-right fashion (MDEV-37713, MDEV-37714)

• XXH3 and XXH32 hash functions (MDEV-38180)

• Adaptive hash index statistics is shown in ANALYZE FORMAT=JSON (MDEV-38305)

• Optimizer Context Recorder to record the optimizer data and then analyze query optimization on another server instance (MDEV-38701)

• innodb_tablespace_size_warning_threshold and innodb_tablespace_size_warning_pct variables to get a warning when InnoDB tablespace is getting close to full (before it's 100% full and the service is disrupted) (MDEV-38936)

• MEMORY tables support variable-length data types, VARCHAR and TEXT/BLOB (MDEV-38975)

• Local routine variables usable in PREPARE/EXECUTE/DEALLOCATE and OPEN ... FOR (MDEV-39022)

• Package-wide TYPE declarations (MDEV-39587)

• CHECK TABLE supports MEMORY tables (MDEV-40030)

• slave_skip_errors variable can be modified without server restart (MDEV-7394)

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