MariaDB 10.4.1 Release Notes

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Release date: 20 Dec 2018

MariaDB 10.4 is the current development series of MariaDB. It is an evolution of MariaDB 10.3 with several entirely new features not found anywhere else and with backported and reimplemented features from MySQL.

MariaDB 10.4.1 is a Beta release.

Do not use beta releases in production!

For an overview of MariaDB 10.4 see theWhat is MariaDB 10.4? page.

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!

Notable Changes

This will be the first beta release in the MariaDB 10.4 series.

Notable changes of this release include:

Syntax

• New FLUSH SSL command to reload SSL certificates without server restart (MDEV-16266)

• New CAST target — CAST(x AS INTERVAL DAY_SECOND(N)) (MDEV-17776)

Variables

• New sql-mode setting, TIME_ROUND_FRACTIONAL (MDEV-16991)

• Two new values for the variable use_stat_tables: COMPLEMENTARY_FOR_QUERIES and PREFERABLY_FOR_QUERIES (MDEV-17255)

• Engine Independent Table Statistics is now enabled by default; new default values are use_stat_tables=PREFERABLY_FOR_QUERIES and optimizer_use_condition_selectivity=4 (MDEV-15253)

• New variable gtid_cleanup_batch_size for determining how many old rows must accumulate in the mysql.gtid_slave_pos table before a background job will be run to delete them.

Other Features

• Support for window UDF functions via the new method x_remove (MDEV-15073)

• Json service for plugins (MDEV-5313)

• Much faster privilege checks for MariaDB setups with many user accounts or many database grants (MDEV-15649)

• mysql.user table is retired. User accounts and global privileges are now stored in the mysql.global_priv table (MDEV-17658)

• Change in behavior for FLUSH TABLES (MDEV-5336).

Bug Fixes

Lots of miscellaneous fixes, including:

• Bug fixes for MDEV-15562 instant DROP COLUMN

Changelog

For a complete list of changes made in MariaDB 10.4.1, with links to detailed information on each push, see the changelog.

Contributors

For a full list of contributors to MariaDB 10.4.1, see the MariaDB Foundation release announcement.

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