MariaDB 12.1.1 Release Notes

The most recent release of MariaDB 12.1 is:

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Release date: 7 Aug 2025

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

MariaDB 12.1 is a rolling release. It is an evolution of MariaDB 12.0 with several entirely new features.

MariaDB 12.1.1 is a Release Candidate (RC) release.

For an overview of MariaDB 12.1 see the MariaDB 12.1 Changes & Improvements page.

Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!

New Features

Performance improvements

• Segmented key cache for Aria storage engine (MDEV-24)

  • aria_pagecache_segments system variable

• MDL scalability improvements (MDEV-19749)

• Parallel replication for Galera replicas (MDEV-20065)

• Buffered logging for audit plugin (MDEV-34680)

• Faster vector distance calculations via extrapolation (MDEV-36205)

Compatibility features

• caching_sha2_password plugin (MDEV-9804)

• ( + ) for outer join syntax (MDEV-13817)

• Add semisynchronous replication variable, rpl_semi_sync_master_wait_for_slave_count (MDEV-18983)

• Associative arrays: DECLARE TYPE .. TABLE OF .. INDEX BY (MDEV-34319)

• DROP USER will now by default issue a warning if the user has active sessions, or fail in Oracle mode (MDEV-35617)

• Optimizer hints: [NO_]JOIN_INDEX, [NO_]GROUP_INDEX, [NO_]ORDER_INDEX, [NO_]INDEX (MDEV-35856)

• Optimizer hints: [NO_]SPLIT_MATERIALIZED (MDEV-36092)

• Optimizer hints: [NO_]DERIVED_CONDITION_PUSHDOWN, [NO_]MERGE (MDEV-36106)

Miscellaneous

• Add analyze_max_length option to not collect statistics for long char/varchars (MDEV-36536)

• Retry applying of write sets on galera nodes (MDEV-36077)

• mariadb-dump now supports wildcards with the -L or --wildcards option (MDEV-21376)

• Per-table unique FOREIGN KEY constraint names (MDEV-28933)

• Support for functional indexes in GROUP/ORDER BY (MDEV-36132)

• Include definitions of tables and views in the optimizer trace (MDEV-36483)

Changelog

For a complete list of changes made in MariaDB 12.1.1, with links to detailed information on each push, see the changelog.

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