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# MariaDB 10.3.8 Release Notes

The most recent release of [MariaDB 10.3](/docs/release-notes/community-server/old-releases/10.3/what-is-mariadb-103.md) is:[**MariaDB 10.3.39**](/docs/release-notes/community-server/old-releases/10.3/10.3.39.md) Stable (GA) [Download Now](https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.3.39/)

[Download](https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.3.8) | [Release Notes](/docs/release-notes/community-server/old-releases/10.3/10.3.8.md) | [Changelog](/docs/release-notes/community-server/changelogs/changelogs-mariadb-10-3-series/mariadb-1038-changelog.md) | [Overview of 10.3](/docs/release-notes/community-server/old-releases/10.3/what-is-mariadb-103.md)

**Release date:** 2 Jul 2018

[MariaDB 10.3](/docs/release-notes/community-server/old-releases/10.3/what-is-mariadb-103.md) is an evolution of [MariaDB 10.2](/docs/release-notes/community-server/old-releases/10.2/what-is-mariadb-102.md) with several entirely new features not found anywhere else and with backported and reimplemented features from MySQL.

[MariaDB 10.3.8](/docs/release-notes/community-server/old-releases/10.3/10.3.8.md) is a [***Stable (GA)***](/docs/release-notes/community-server/about/release-criteria.md) release.

**For an overview of MariaDB Server 10.3 see the**[**What is MariaDB 10.3?**](/docs/release-notes/community-server/old-releases/10.3/what-is-mariadb-103.md) **page or watch the webinar recording,** [**What's new in MariaDB TX 3.0**](https://go.mariadb.com/mariadbtx3.0_webinar_registration-LP.html?utm_source=kb\&utm_campaign=mariadbtx-ondemand-webinar_kb-release-notes)**.**

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!

## Notable Changes

Notable changes of this release include:

* [MDEV-8743](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-8743) - O\_CLOEXEC on innodb/xtradb temp files
* [MDEV-16267](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-16267) - Wrong INFORMATION\_SCHEMA.INNODB\_BUFFER\_PAGE.TABLE\_NAME
* [MDEV-13779](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-13779) - InnoDB fails to shut down purge, causing hang
* [MDEV-16283](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-16283) - ALTER TABLE...DISCARD TABLESPACE still takes long on a large buffer pool
* [MDEV-13834](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-13834) - Upgrade failure from 10.1 innodb\_encrypt\_log
* [MDEV-16376](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-16376) - ASAN: heap-use-after-free in gcol.innodb\_virtual\_debug
* [MDEV-15824](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-15824) - innodb\_defragment=ON trumps innodb\_optimize\_fulltext\_only=ON in OPTIMIZE TABLE
* [MDEV-16124](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-16124) - fil\_rename\_tablespace() times out and crashes server during table-rebuilding ALTER TABLE
* [MDEV-16416](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-16416) - Crash on IMPORT TABLESPACE of a ROW\_FORMAT=COMPRESSED table
* [MDEV-16456](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-16456) - InnoDB error "returned OS error 71" complains about wrong path
* [MDEV-16469](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-16469) - SET GLOBAL innodb\_change\_buffering has no effect
* [MDEV-13103](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-13103) - Deal with page\_compressed page corruption
* [MDEV-15611](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-15611) - Due to the failure of foreign key detection, Galera slave node killed himself
* [MDEV-16496](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-16496) - mariadb-backup: Implement --verbose option to instrument InnoDB log apply
* [MDEV-16087](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-16087) - Inconsistent SELECT results when query cache is enabled
* [MDEV-15114](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-15114) - ASAN heap-use-after-free in mem\_heap\_dup or dfield\_data\_is\_binary\_equal
* [MDEV-16330](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-16330) - Allow instant change of WITH SYSTEM VERSIONING column attribute
* [MDEV-16365](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-16365) - Setting a column NOT NULL fails to return error for NULL values when there is no DEFAULT
* [MDEV-15953](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-15953) - Alter InnoDB Partitioned Table Moves Files (which were originally not in the datadir) to the datadir
* [MDEV-13122](https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-13122): [MariaDB Backup](https://mariadb.com/docs/server/server-usage/backup-and-restore/mariadb-backup/) now supports [MyRocks storage engine](/docs/server/server-usage/storage-engines/myrocks.md)
* As per the [MariaDB Deprecation Policy](/docs/release-notes/community-server/about/platform-deprecation-policy.md), this will be the last release of [MariaDB 10.3](/docs/release-notes/community-server/old-releases/10.3/what-is-mariadb-103.md) for Ubuntu 17.10 Artful

## Changelog

For a complete list of changes made in [MariaDB 10.3.8](/docs/release-notes/community-server/old-releases/10.3/10.3.8.md), with links to detailed information on each push, see the [changelog](/docs/release-notes/community-server/changelogs/changelogs-mariadb-10-3-series/mariadb-1038-changelog.md).

## Contributors

For a full list of contributors to [MariaDB 10.3.8](/docs/release-notes/community-server/old-releases/10.3/10.3.8.md), see the [MariaDB Foundation release announcement](https://mariadb.org/mariadb-10-3-8-now-available/).

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